SAINT-DENIS, France — France’s state-owned rail company, SNCF, and its Belgium counterpart, SNCB, have proposed a merger of the Eurostar and Thalys high speed rail companies to create one operator that would serve five countries. The proposal, labelled “Green Speed,” was announced Friday. The combined company would serve England, France, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands. […]
LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s reconstructed Blue Line is set to fully reopen the week of Oct. 28, a spokesman for the agency tells Trains News Wire. The system’s oldest operating light rail line has been undergoing a major renovation and modernization in two phases, shutting the southern half from January to […]
Denver’s RTD has announced a delay to mid-2020 for the opening of its N Line, originally slated to begin service in 2018. TRAINS: David Lassen DENVER — The Denver-area Regional Transportation District has announced that the opening of its commuter-rail N Line will be delayed again, and officials in at least two of the cities […]
Part of the funds will go to New York City Transit for new signaling and equipment, station improvements, and track replacement. Subway riders on the nation’s largest transit system can expect to see more work trains, such as this one at the West 4th Street station in Manhattan, for system upgrades in the next five […]
APTA recommendations for Congress Richard Wronski WASHINGTON — The CEO of the American Public Transportation Association Congress Tuesday to boost federal funding to meet growing needs and new technology, reform existing programs and policies, and address the difficulties facing those agencies. At a hearing before the House Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials, titled, […]
An afternoon NJ Transit train arrives Short Hills Station in April 2017. The Morris and Essex line here is the positive train control proving grounds for the rest of the NJ Transit system. New multiple-unit cars expected to arrive in the mid-2020s will replace locomotives on most trains. Ralph Spielman NEWARK, N.J. — NJ Transit “still […]
WASHINGTON — Commuter railroad executives testifying before Congress on Tuesday spoke at length about money and red tape. The American Public Transportation Association’s chief testified before congress but so did Jim Derwinski, CEO/executive director of Metra; Peter Rogoff, CEO of Sound Transit; and Stephanie Wiggins, CEO of Metrolink. Derwinski said Metra, and the commuter rail […]
John Wories, Amsted Rail president John Wories, Amsted Rail president, gestures during comments he gave in a panel discussion at the 2019 Railway Interchange conference in Minneapolis on Tuesday. H. Michael Yuhas MINNEAPOLIS — It was the final question in Tuesday’s hour-long panel discussion involving three CEOs at the Railway Supply Institute’s Educational and Technical […]
NEW YORK — The resumption of weekday Express Acela service to Washington on Monday saw southbound train 2401 leave New York’s Pennsylvania Station at 6:35 a.m. on a two hour and thirty-five minute schedule: it heralded another effort to provide non-stop service, which had been operated sporadically over the last 50 years, by both Penn […]
Follow along as passenger train #11, “The Hawkeye”, makes its way from Chicago to Sioux City, Iowa, in 1966 on the Illinois Central. Video by Michael Armstrong. […]
Follow along as passenger train #11, “The Hawkeye”, makes its way from Chicago to Sioux City, Iowa, in 1966 on the Illinois Central. Video by Michael Armstrong. […]
The rebuilt Paoli, Pa., station opened on Sept. 23. Kitty Laepple PAOLI, Pa. — The Paoli Local has a new home, but lost two of its tracks in the process. The $48 million Paoli Station Accessibility Improvement Project officially opened on Sept. 23. Amtrak and SEPTA officials, as well as state and local dignitaries, cut […]
