Baltimore Streetcar Museum receives funding for new campus project

Aerial-view illustration of streetcar museum with roundhouse and carbarn

BALTIMORE — The Baltimore Streetcar Museum has received $165,000 in city funding for its project to develop a new campus at a former Maryland & Pennsylvania roundhouse near its current location. The museum said in a Facebook post that the money, in fiscal 2026 and 2027 from the City of Baltimore Cultural Spaces Capital Support […]

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SunRail weighs costs of daily operation

Commuter train at station

ORLANDO, Fla —  It could cost more than $88 million to expand commuter service SunRail to seven-day-a-week operation, the agency overseeing the commuter rail line was told at a meeting last week. Chief Operating Officer Charles M. Heffinger Jr. told the Central Florida Commuter Rail Commission at a July 24 meeting that regular Saturday and […]

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CN derailment disrupts VIA corridor service west of Toronto

Canadian National logo

PARIS, Ontario — A Canadian National Railway derailment on Friday morning (July 25, 2025) led to disruption of VIA Rail Canada corridor service to and from Windsor, Ont., the CBC reports. Five trains between Toronto and Windsor were rerouted via CN’s Guelph Subdivision, while three others were cancelled entirely. VIA service has been restored today, […]

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Pullman car ‘Glen Ayr’ donated for display at Pullman National Park (corrected)

Flyer on donation of Pullman car.

CHICAGO — The owner of the Aberdeen Carolina & Western Railway has donated a 1928 Pullman car to the Historic Pullman Foundation for preservation and display at the Pullman National Historical Park and State Historic Site. The Glen Ayr, an all-steel Pullman heavyweight sleeper, has donated by Robert Menzies from the railway’s collection of historic […]

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STB creates merger resources pages on its website

WASHINGTON — The Surface Transportation Board has launched merger resources pages on its website just a day after Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern confirmed that they are engaged in advanced talks over a combination that would create the first U.S. transcontinental railroad. UP and NS said their talks may not result in a deal. The […]

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Wabtec posts strong earnings and sees opportunities from potential Class I rail mergers

PITTSBURGH — Wabtec yesterday reported strong second-quarter results, with double-digit earnings growth and rising profit margins fueled by strength in its transit business and recent acquisitions. Operating income rose 9.7%, to $472 million, as revenue grew 2.3%, to $2.71 billion. Earnings per share rose 19.5% compared to a year ago. Wabtec sees the potential for […]

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BNSF asks to delay vote on Arizona logistics project

Plan for BNSF logistics center in Arizona

WITTMANN, Ariz. — BNSF Railway has asked Maricopa County officials to delay a vote until November a vote on its proposed $3.2 million logistics and intermodal hub near Phoenix. The Arizona Republic reports a letter requesting the delay from a planned zoning vote scheduled for Aug. 20 did not offer a specific reason, but says […]

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Sound Transit moves up opening date for Federal Way light rail extension

Map of rail line between Sea-Tac and Federal Way, Wash.

SEATTLE — Sound Transit could open the next addition to its light rail network as soon as late this year following board approval of a phased approach for opening extensions currently under construction. The Federal Way Link Extension, an 8-mile addition from Angle Lake — the current southern end of the North-South Line 1 — […]

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NTSB releases preliminary report on R.J. Corman conductor injury in Kentucky

Aerial image and diagram of injury switching accident in Kentucky

WASHINGTON — An R.J. Corman Railway Gorup conductor suffered a serious injury to his left foot when he was pinned between couplers on two railcars, the National Transportation Safety Board said in its preliminary report on an accident that occurred during switching in Guthrie, Ky., on June 26, 2025. The accident occurred about 5 p.m. […]

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Pacific Surfliner, Coast Starlight route to be disrupted in California

Blue and silver passenger train with bilevel equipment

GOLETA, Calif. — A 16-day project to replace a Union Pacific bridge  beginning Aug. 1 will shut down the route used by two Pacific Surfliner round trips that extend to San Luis Obispo, Calif., as well as Amtrak’s Los Angeles-Seattle Coast Starlight. Replacement of the 127-year-old La Cañada Honda Bridge over Honda Creek in northern […]

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A Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern combination would redraw the railroad map

Freight train with one yellow locomotive and one black locomotive

Combining Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern into the first transcontinental railroad in the U.S. would create a 52,215-mile colossus that could offer seamless service from coast to coast, bypassing longtime interchange choke points in Chicago and at gateways along the Mississippi River. The two railroads confirmed today that they are in advanced merger discussions. The […]

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Portland, Ore., transit agency announces plans for service cuts

White light rail train at station

PORTLAND, Ore. — Portland’s TriMet has become the latest U.S. transit agency to announce plans for significant service cuts to address a funding shortfall, announcing plans to reduce frequency on some bus lines this November in the first phase of a process that would eventually include an 18% reduction in MAX light rail service. The […]

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