PHILADELPHIA — Amtrak is running some Keystone Service trains between Philadelphia and Harrisburg, Pa., on a modified schedule this afternoon and evening, after earlier cancelling trains on that segment because of damage from severe storms east of Harrisburg on Tuesday night. The railroad says July 4th service will operate as scheduled “subject to some delays while […]
CHARLESTON, W.V. — The West Virginia Port Authority is moving forward to find a lessee for one of the state’s intermodal facilities in anticipation of possibly auctioning the facility off or selling it. At a meeting Tuesday, the West Virginia Port Authority Board of Directors unanimously approved a resolution authorizing the board chairman to begin […]
GREEN BAY, Wis. — Amtrak has begun offering bus service between Green Bay and Milwaukee, connecting with its Amtrak Hiawatha service at two stations in Milwaukee. The new Amtrak Thruway bus service began Monday, offering two round trips between Milwaukee and Green Bay with intermediate stops in Appleton, Oshkosh, and Fond du Lac. In Milwaukee, the […]
GLEN HAVEN, Wis. — The main BNSF Railway route between Chicago and Minneapolis/St. Paul will remain closed through at least Tuesday after a mudslide caused a derailment Monday morning, sending at least one car into the Mississippi River. About 15 cars of the southbound intermodal train were reported to be derailed, the Wisconsin State Journal […]
Union Pacific SANDERSON, Texas – Union Pacific has experienced a bridge fire on the Sunset Route south of Dryden, about 18 miles east of Sanderson. According to the railroad, the fire occurred on Sunday evening and the line is expected to reopen “later this week.” According to spokeswoman Kristen South, at about 6:30 p.m. on […]
Norfolk Southern train Q071, a CN detour, rolls west at Northeast, Pa. Stephan M. Koenig PORT HURON — In the wake of Friday’s derailment of Canadian National train 383 at the international St. Clair Tunnel, CN began rerouting trains almost immediately following the closure of one of its most important gateways. Canadian Pacific has been […]
BOSTON — Elected officials were among those joining protests Monday as Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority fare increases took effect. Boston.com quotes organizers as saying at least 350 people took part in the protests at commuter rail and subway stations throughout the MBTA system to protest across-the-board, 6% fare hikes. The protests, dubbed the Boston T […]
DURANGO, Colo. – Federal prosecutors filed a lawsuit against the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad on Tuesday accusing the popular Colorado tourist railroad of starting a massive wildfire last summer that burned for months and torched more than 53,000 acres. The government is seeking about $25 million from the D&SNG and its parent company, […]
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — The Southern Environmental Law Center has filed suit against the North Carolina Railroad Co., in a dispute over records the organization requested from the railroad company, but were denied. In a statement issued Monday, the SECL announced that it had filed suit in Wake County (N.C.) Superior Court after the railroad company […]
Oklahoma Gas & Electric empties approach the four loading silos as the Belle Ayr Mine, then owned by Amax, on Dec. 21, 1976. Hol Wagner GILLETTE, Wyo. – Wyoming’s pioneering Belle Ayr mine southeast of Gillette has closed abruptly this week, following the bankruptcy filing of parent Blackjewel LLC in West Virginia. The company has […]
CSX commemorative units Nos. 1776 and 911 move a three-car special north of Richmond, Va., on Sunday. Joe Garnett WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump’s July 4 event in the nation’s capital will include fireworks, planes flying overhead, and U.S. military tanks that arrived by rail. CSX’s veterans’ locomotive, No. 1776, and first responders’ unit, No. […]
TORONTO — VIA Rail Canada’s plan to cobble together a new Toronto-Montreal-Quebec City passenger corridor from abandoned, lightly used, and new rail lines inched closer to reality last week with the approval of $71 million in funding for further studies. But it raises a question: Why spend more than $4 billion to build a new […]
