WASHINGTON — A piece of Chicago’s CREATE project and an element of California’s high speed rail construction are among the 11 recipients of Department of Transportation National Infrastructure Project Assistance, or Mega, grants announced today. Also, the same CREATE project and infrastructure improvements on the Paducah & Louisville Railway are among the 36 projects selected […]
EAGLE PASS, Texas — Mexican railroad Ferromex will resume issuing permits for unit grain trains entering Mexico through the Eagle Pass and El Paso, Texas, gateways “as a result of the improved ag unit train crossing cadence and pipeline” beginning today (Monday, Oct. 21), Union Pacific has informed customers. On Oct. 12, UP announced that […]
The crew of Southern Pacific Extra 6311 East ties up at the Sparks, Nev., yard office, 2 miles east of Reno. The men have moved their train of 5,002 tons 137 miles from Sacramento, including a vertical climb of 6,723 feet and a descent of 2,459 feet. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
WASHINGTON — Oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court are set for Dec. 10 regarding the appeal of the lower-court decision blocking construction of the Uinta Basin Railway, the Grand Junction (Colo.) Daily Sentinel reports. The Supreme Court agreed in June to hear the appeal from the Seven County Infrastructure Coalition, the Utah governmental body […]
NEW ORLEANS — The New Orleans Public Belt Railroad and Heniff Transportation Systems LLC have signed an agreement for Heniff to manage rail transloading services at the newly opened New Orleans Transloading Industrial Park. The facility, located on Terminal Road in New Orleans East, is designed to offer shippers multimodal options for moving dry and […]
COOS BAY, Ore. — The Oregon International Port of Coos Bay will receive a $25 million federal grant for its intermodal project, the Pacific Coast Intermodal Port, the port has announced. The grant, from the Department of Transportation’s INFRA (Infrastructure for Rebuilding America) program, will go toward environmental compliance and permitting, as well as design […]
SOREL-TRACY, Quebec — The Canadian government will provide up to Ca$38 million in funding for seven shipping projects in Quebec and along the St. Lawrence Seaway, several of them rail related, Transport Canada announced today (Friday, Oct. 18). At the Port of Quebec in Quebec City, projects will include increasing capacity and efficiency of the […]
DONALDSONVILLE, La. — No injuries were reported when 17 cars of a Union Pacific train derailed today (Friday, Oct. 18) in Donaldsonville, leading to a spill of what is described as a non-hazardous chemical. The derailment occurred about 7:30 a.m. A railroad representative told WBRZ-TV that cyanuric acid, used in herbicides and chlorine bleach, was […]
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Union Pacific has started construction on a new intermodal terminal in Kansas City, expected to open in mid-2025, the railroad announced. The Kansas City Intermodal Terminal, located in Kansas City, Kan., will be the fourth such facility UP has built in the past few years, and will offer more capacity than […]
NOVI, Mich. — Members of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, or BMWED, have ratified a new contract with Norfolk Southern while members at CSX have rejected a tentative agreement, the union has announced. Both votes were held Oct. 14. The five-year agreement with NS includes wage […]
CADILLAC, Mich. — Great Lakes Central Railroad painter Dave Leonard is a perfectionist. He and car shop worker Steve Smith have just spent 30 minutes measuring, remeasuring, and placing masking tape on Great Lakes Central Railroad’s new logo, on the repainted nose of former Montana Rail Link SD35 No. 384. It’s one of three such […]
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s Congress has passed legislation which would reverse railroad privatization laws enacted in the 1990s and give the government more control over rail operations, particularly in terms of passenger rail. Mexico News Daily reports the Senate passed the bill 123-0 on Wednesday. Because the legislation is a constitutional reform, it still must […]
