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BOSTON — After more than a week, service on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s Red Line subway is approaching normalcy. As of Tuesday, the MBTA was running 10 trains an hour on the Red Line, the Boston Globe reports — still fewer than normal, but up from the six per hour it had been running […]
NEW YORK — The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has announced completion of its ExpressRail Port Jersey facility, the last piece of a $600-million project to build dedicated rail facilities for each of the port’s major container terminals. The project connects the Port Jersey facility, operated by Global Container Terminals Bayonne, to […]
A New Jersey Transit train stops at the Edison, N.J., station in June 2018. Edison was the site of one of three power outages disrupting Northeast Corridor service today. Ralph Spielman NEW YORK — Northeast Corridor service for Amtrak, NJ Transit and the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority has been interrupted by a pair of power […]
NEW YORK — Gov. Andrew Cuomo has announced a plan to add 500 police officers to Metropolitan Transportation Authority subway stations and bus routes in an effort to stem fare evasion and transit violence. In a Monday press conference, Cuomo said 200 New York police officers, 200 MTA officers, and 100 bridge and tunnels officers […]
BOSTON — The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority has hired an engineering firm to review its recent derailments, a process that could take up to three months. Passenger rail consulting firm LTK Engineering will conduct the review, WCVB-TV reports. It will look at two years’ worth of incidents, including the June 8 Green Line derailment near Fenway […]
Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont and Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz address an audience observing the first anniversary of the state’s CTrail Hartford Line operation at Hartford Union Station on Monday. Scott A. Hartley HARTFORD, Conn. – Connecticut’s Hartford Line is expected to have carried more than 630,000 passengers in its first year of operation over Amtrak’s […]
SNOW HILL, Md. — The Maryland & Delaware Railroad expects to resume freight service between Frankford, Del. and Snow Hill by the end of June, as soon as final repairs are completed. Most of the 24-mile line has been dormant for seven years. Local newspapers and television report the railroad has reached an agreement with […]
BOSTON — The operator of a Red Line subway train that derailed last week has been cleared of responsibility for the accident which injured two passengers, the head of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority said Friday. General Manager Steve Poftak said the investigation was continuing, WBUR radio reported. Delays from the Tuesday derailment of the […]
BOSTON — The head of the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority says the agency will seeks an outside review of its operations in the wake of two light-rail derailments in a four-day span and four so far in 2019. The Associated Press reports that MBTA General Manager Steve Poftak wants “a fresh set of eyes” to […]
Baldwin Locomotive Works No. 60000 is moved to the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia in September 1933. It took five days to move the locomotive five blocks from 24th and Vine Street. Barry R. Nemcoff PHILADELPHIA – A $6 million grant from the Hamilton Family Charitable Trust will transform the Franklin Institute’s Train Factory exhibit, which […]
BOSTON — Saturday’s derailment of a Green Line light rail train appears to have been caused by operator error, according to the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. The Boston Herald quotes MBTA Deputy General Manager Jeffrey Gonnevile as saying the derailment “does appear to be operator-related” at a meeting of the MBTA’s oversight board. At least […]
BOSTON – An MBTA Red Line subway derailment near the JFK/UMass station on Tuesday morning has injured one person and disrupted the morning Boston commute for thousands, the Boston Globe reports. According to the agency, shuttle buses are replacing Red Line service between North Quincy and Broadway and Ashmont to Broadway due to the derailment. […]
