WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) today announced the recipients of more than $326 million in grant funds under the Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements (CRISI) Program and the Special Transportation Circumstances Program, for a wide variety of state and local railroad infrastructure projects. The grants will fund 45 […]
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. — Distribution of malted grain for the distillery and brewing industries in the northern Kentucky region will expand dramatically with a new 33-railcar transload facility developed by Louisville & Indiana Railroad and Great Western Malting Co. The opening, planned for June 13, will include a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the rail-to-truck transfer site, which […]
BOSTON — Saturday’s derailment of a Green Line light rail train appears to have been caused by operator error, according to the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. The Boston Herald quotes MBTA Deputy General Manager Jeffrey Gonnevile as saying the derailment “does appear to be operator-related” at a meeting of the MBTA’s oversight board. At least […]
SAN FRANCISCO – Nearly seven decades after being built, PCC streetcars are still earning their keep in San Francisco and thanks to a recent rehabilitation effort, the streamlined cars will be doing so for years to come. Since 2014, Brookville Equipment Corporation has been rebuilding 16 PCC cars for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. […]
A view of the wreckage of derailed Amtrak Cascades Train 501 on Dec. 18, 2017. Steve Carter SEATTLE — The city council in Lakewood, Wash., has approved a resolution asking the Washington State Department of Transportation and Amtrak not to reopen the Point Defiance Bypass until all of the National Transportation Safety Board’s recommendations are […]
A Metra train leaves Big Timber Road west of Elgin in 2014. A connection will be built to Union Pacific rails to Rockford in the foreground Bob Johnston CHICAGO – Although Illinois lawmakers and newly-elected Gov. J. B. Pritzker, a Democrat, enacted the state’s first infrastructure capital spending legislation in a decade [see “Illinois passes […]
BOSTON – An MBTA Red Line subway derailment near the JFK/UMass station on Tuesday morning has injured one person and disrupted the morning Boston commute for thousands, the Boston Globe reports. According to the agency, shuttle buses are replacing Red Line service between North Quincy and Broadway and Ashmont to Broadway due to the derailment. […]
Duluth & Northeastern 28, shown temporarily re-lettered Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range 332 in 2017 for a photo charter, will not operate this weekend as planned. Steve Glischinski DULUTH, Minn. – The Lake Superior Railroad Museum has announced that operations of Duluth & Northeastern 2-8-0 No. 28 planned for June 14-15 are cancelled. It’s the […]
NEW YORK – The Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Long Island Rail Road will start construction on a new Penn Station entrance at 33rd Street and Seventh Avenue on June 17, which will bring much needed improved access, while LIRR’s concourse will get wider corridors, natural light, and improved safety to the underground station. To help […]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Midwest flooding has prompted Kansas City Southern and Norfolk Southern to seek temporary trackage rights on each others’ Kansas City-St. Louis routes while Union Pacific reports essentially full service restoration on its Southern Region. KCS and NS have petitioned the Surface Transportation Board to allow NS to use 156 miles of […]
WASHINGTON – The National Transportation Safety Board has released it preliminary report on an employee fatality at a CSX Transportation yard in Chattanooga, Tenn. According to the report, on April 13, 2019, about 5:40 p.m., a CSX mechanical employee was struck and killed by a remote-control locomotive, operating as train Y292-13, that was being used […]
NORFOLK, Va. – While presenting to shortline and regional railroad executives at the Norfolk Southern short line marketing meeting in Norfolk on Tuesday, CEO James A. Squires says there are three things that have to happen before the rail industry can expect one-person crews. “First, the technology. The technology’s got to be there.” With positive […]
