Posted 7 hours ago by bevans
MULTIPLE people have been injured and rushed to hospital after two high-speed trains collided outside Philadelphia.
Posted yesterday by bevans
Online travel provider Expedia Inc is looking to build up its rail booking services in the United States, Chief Executive Dara Khosrowshahi said in an interview with Reuters on Tuesday.
Posted 2 days ago by Railpage System User
Kansas City Southern, US Customs & Border Protection and Mexican customs agency SAT inaugurated a joint rail freight processing facility at the Laredo border crossing in Texas on August 17.
Posted 2 days ago by Railpage System User
Amtrak is to run a special train on August 21 to enable people to reach one of the best locations for viewing the first total solar eclipse to be visible from the continental USA since 1979, and the first to be visible coast-to-coast since 1918.
Posted one week ago by bevans
Dozens of U.S. trade groups have asked federal rail regulators to investigate CSX Corp's "chronic service failures," saying problems at No. 3 U.S. railroad have rippled across the North American rail network, according to a letter seen by Reuters.
Posted one week ago by bevans
The vision of traveling from Vancouver to Seattle on a ultra high-speed train in just one hour is one tiny step closer towards becoming a reality after Washington State officially launched a study to examine the feasibility of such a rail link.
Posted one week ago by Railpage System User
Privately-financed high speed line project promoter Texas Central has appointed Fluor Enterprises and The Lane Construction Corp to refine the construction planning, scheduling and cost estimates for the project, and to support procurement.
Posted one week ago by Railpage System User
Amtrak announced on August 9 that it had commissioned an independent review of the way in which the three railroads serving New York’s Penn Station work together. The objective is to improve the ‘design, functionality, communications and co-ordination’ of the passenger facilities.
Posted one week ago by newsbot
Railroad giant CSX, which is under fire from regulators for operating changes that have disrupted its freight service nationwide, laid off more than 6o employees this week at its primary Chicago switching yard, according to the workers' union.
Posted one week ago by Railpage System User
A 2·3 km long, 9 m deep and 20 m wide cutting built at cost of $313m as part of a grade separation project designed to ease traffic congestion in the San Gabriel Valley east of downtown Los Angeles was officially opened by the Alameda Corridor-East Construction Authority on July 24, eliminating four level crossings.
Posted 2 weeks ago by newsbot
An intermodal CSX rail hub proposed for Rocky Mount will bring 1,500 jobs to North Carolina.
Posted 2 weeks ago by Railpage System User
Texas Department of Transportation has a received a US$7m grant from the US Department of Transportation towards a US$16∙2m ‘public and private partnership’ to replace the bridge connecting Presidio with Ojinaga in Mexico, and upgrade 115 km of the connecting South Orient Rail Line.
Posted 2 weeks ago by bevans
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ (BTS) has shown that all but one of the major freight modes grew since the recession that ended in June 2009 with rail intermodal growing the fastest, rising 50.6 percent from June 2009 (the end of the economic recession) to December 2016.
Posted 2 weeks ago by newsbot
A 33-year-old man died early Sunday after he came into contact with the electrified third rail on the CTA Red Line at 128 N. State St. in the Loop, according to officials.
Posted 2 weeks ago by Railpage System User
Passengers can now use the Amtrak mobile app to access rideshare company Lyft’s app to book first and last mile travel to and from a station.
Posted 2 weeks ago by Railpage System User
Stadler has completed the first Flirt multiple-unit to be assembled in the USA at its plant at North Salt Lake in Utah. The DMU for the TEX Rail project will be officially unveiled at the ATPA Expo in Atlanta in October.
Posted 3 weeks ago by newsbot
A group of "Rail Rangers" plans to narrate the South Shore Line's journey between Chicago and South Bend on six Saturdays during the next three months.
Posted 3 weeks ago by newsbot
ON SUNDAY, AMANDA CHARSOVA, WHO runs a Bay Area company that rents carnival games, posted some distressing news: A 25-foot-long trackless electric train for children, valued at $60,000, had been stolen.
Posted 3 weeks ago by bevans
Service on the Atlantic City Rail Line between Philadelphia and Cherry Hill will be suspended for two weeks after a trash track struck a rail bridge, NJ Transit reported.
Posted 3 weeks ago by Railpage System User
Connecticut Department of Transportation has awarded a joint venture of TransitAmerica Services and Alternate Concepts a $45m contract to operate CTrail Hartford Line commuter services between New Haven, Hartford and Springfield for five years from the expected launch in May 2018.
Posted 3 weeks ago by Railpage System User
GE Transportation confirmed on July 27 that it intends to transfer the production of locomotives from Erie, Pennsylvania, to Fort Worth in Texas. The move is planned by the end of 2018, and would see the loss of up to 575 jobs in Erie. The proposal is subject to a 60-day decision bargaining period, if requested by the trade union.
Posted 3 weeks ago by Railpage System User
The first of nine Bombardier BiLevel cab cars ordered by Sound Transit in 2014 arrived in Seattle on July 24. It is due to enter passenger service in September.
Posted last month by bevans
Elon Musk has tweeted he has a "verbal" sign off to build a New York to Washignton DC hyperloop, which could cut travel from over three hours to 29 minutes.
Posted last month by Railpage System User
California Governor Jerry Brown was among those present at a ceremony at Millbrae station on June 21 to mark the start of work on the Caltrain Electrification Project.
Posted last month by bevans
Massachusetts has fined two railroad companies $60,000 for leaving discarded railroad ties along the tracks, some of which later caught fire.
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