Posted 19 hours ago by Railpage System User
A train has derailed and a bridge has collapsed in Indiana County, Pa. Rail traffic has been stopped and vehicular traffic is being detoured. The accident happened the morning of Nov. 25 on the Cherryhill and Green townships border near Clymer, Pa.
Posted 19 hours ago by Railpage System User
U.S. intermodal traffic on a weekly basis exceeded the 300,000-unit mark this week amid continued brisk import activity.
Posted 21 hours ago by Railpage System User
Operations for the Purple Line project in Maryland will soon be back to normal. The Maryland Department of Transportation reached a $250 million settlement with three companies connected to the public-private partnership.
Posted yesterday by Railpage System User
With coronavirus cases rising sharply in the U.S. and Canada in recent weeks, the Class I railroads have also been grappling with managing increased COVID-19 exposure on their networks.
Posted yesterday by Railpage System User
Amtrak has used the coronavirus-induced collapse in demand for travel to push ahead with a number of infrastructure and investment projects, despite posting a loss of $801m for the financial year to September 30.
Posted 2 days ago by Railpage System User
Over the past fiscal year, Amtrak has worked to prioritise customer safety, advance infrastructure and fast-track technology improvements even as the ongoing pandemic caused a devastating drop in ridership and revenue.
Posted 2 days ago by Railpage System User
Rail employment headcount in October among the U.S. operations of the Class I railroads fell to its second lowest level in 2020, according to the latest data from the Surface Transportation Board.
Posted 2 days ago by Railpage System User
U.S. carload traffic narrowed its year-over-year deficit last week, with carloads down only 3.1% compared with the same period in 2019, according to the Association of American Railroads.
Posted 3 days ago by Railpage System User
Freight railroads and shippers alike praised the Senate confirmation this week of two additional members to the Surface Transportation Board (STB).
Posted 3 days ago by Railpage System User
A&R Logistics has opened a 615,000-square-foot facility near the Port of Charleston in South Carolina. CSX (NASDAQ: CSX) partnered with A&R Logistics in bringing the facility to fruition.
Posted 3 days ago by Railpage System User
Rail is the lowest-emitting mode of freight per ton mile.
Posted 3 days ago by Railpage System User
Union Pacific (NYSE: UNP) is hoping to attract more intermodal customers in the Upper Midwest now that it has an intermodal terminal in Minneapolis.
Posted 4 days ago by Railpage System User
After a hotly contested process lasting more than a decade, the Federal Railroad Administration published a Final Rule on November 16 establishing metrics and minimum standards to measure the performance and service quality of inter-city passenger trains.
Posted 5 days ago by Railpage System User
The first of the coaches which Stadler’s Bussnang plant in Switzerland is building for the Broadmoor Manitou & Pikes Peak Cog Railway in Colorado has been handed over to the commissioning team.
Posted 5 days ago by Railpage System User
With the new incoming Biden administration, the U.S. is set to rapidly expand high-speed rail.
Posted 5 days ago by Railpage System User
Luxury train operator Rocky Mountaineer has announced plans to launch a two-day ‘Rockies to the Red Rocks’ rail journey between Denver in Colorado and Moab in Utah during 2021. Passengers would stay overnight at a hotel in Glenwood Springs, Colorado.
Posted 5 days ago by Railpage System User
The Amtrak-owned Connecticut River Bridge Replacement project will receive $US 65.2m, while the Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT)-owned Walk Bridge replacement project will receive $US 79.7m. The projects will raise the maximum speed at which trains can travel on the bridges.
Posted 6 days ago by GheringhapLoop
An 18-wheeler was hit by an Amtrak train in Summit, Mississippi Friday afternoon.
Posted 6 days ago by bevans
In July, Nevada officials unanimously, and gushingly, approved $200 million in private activity bonds to fund an investment company’s train to Victorville. California had already authorized issuing $600 million in the tax-exempt bonds for the project.
Posted 6 days ago by bevans
A New York City woman shoved onto subway tracks as a train approached says she has no recollection of the terrifying, random attack.
Posted 6 days ago by newsbot
The Rail Pulse car tracking system that’s under development will lead to growth in merchandise traffic by providing shippers with real-time location data throughout a car’s journey from origin to destination, rail industry executives say.
Posted 6 days ago by newsbot
iPort Rail, Doncaster, has this week welcomed a sixth daily train Felixstowe service, bringing the terminal back up to pre-pandemic service levels.
Posted one week ago by Railpage System User
One of the nicknames the president-elect of the United States, Joe Biden, is known by is ‘Amtrak Joe’.
Posted one week ago by Railpage System User
Blend Plants: Ideal for the rail works sector – delivering multi-functionality, compactness and guaranteed results by Costantino Radis.
Posted one week ago by Railpage System User
San Francisco’s subway project, which was scheduled to be complete in 2018, now may not be ready until mid-2022.
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