NEW YORK — How do you make existing subway cars compatible with new signaling at a faster rate for less? Over 300 rail industry attendees, engineering innovators, and academic experts representing 100 firms from four continents attended the Subway Signaling Innovation Summit, held Tuesday at New York University to find out. The event was a […]
OMAHA — Union Pacific will reorganize its marketing and sales structure, consolidating four business groups into three. Eliminated will be the energy group, which currently handles coal, liquefied petroleum gas, petroleum, petroleum coke, and sand. Coal and petroleum coke will move into the Bulk group — formerly agricultural products — while the other commodities will […]
WASHINGTON — The Association of American Railroads is calling on Congress to quickly pass a new North American trade agreement. On Tuesday, it was announced that House Democrats had reached an agreement with President Donald Trump to pass the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, the president’s replacement for the North American Free Trade Agreement. AAR President and […]
Siegfried and Peter Buerling, a father and son team, have been involved with Ohio’s Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad since the start. Courtesy of Peter Buerling PENINSULA, Ohio — Family traditions always mean something special, particularly in railroad preservation. It’s really something special when a son can continue the legacy of his father. Consequently, when what […]
Donations will be matched through Dec. 31 up to $5,358 for NKP SD9 No. 358. FWRHS NEW HAVEN, Ind. — Online contributors have donated half of the match that will go toward the restoration of a Nickel Plate Road SD9 in the collection of the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society. That means more than $2,500 […]
NEW YORK — Deliveries of new Bombardier subway equipment is almost three years behind schedule, and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority failed to adequately oversee the manufacturer’s performance, New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer reports in an audit released Monday. MTA’s $600 million contract with Bombardier Transit Corp. to produce 300 R-179 subway cars was […]
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority equipment sits outside the Riverside Shops in Newton, Mass., in 2011. A new report is highly critical of MBTA practices saying safety is not a priority. It said the issues primarily exist with transit operations, rather than commuter rail. Scott A. Hartley BOSTON — A highly critical report commissioned in the […]
PORT COQUITLAM, British Columbia — The widow of a Canadian Pacific engineer killed earlier this month says her husband was hit by the moving cars of another train as he ended his work day and wonders about safety procedures in the yard where the accident happened. Kirk McLean, 56 and a 32-year veteran of the […]
Wabtec’s GECX 6000 battery-powered locomotive shown in a consist for testing near the company’s Erie, Pa., shops. Stephan M. Koenig ERIE, Pa. — On Tuesday morning, the much anticipated battery powered locomotive from Wabtec made its first trial run on the test track near Erie. The locomotive is the first unit to rely mainly on […]
KALAMAZOO, Mich. — Kalamazoo will become the latest Michigan city to lose a staffed ticket office at its Amtrak station, WWMT-TV reports. The TV station reports the ticket office will close “at the beginning of 2020.” It follows similar moves East Lansing, Niles, Jackson, and Flint, which saw their ticket offices close in 2018 [see […]
WASHINGTON — While the federal government gathers input on a proposal to allow liquefied natural gas to be moved in tank cars, one company has gotten a special permit to do just that. On Dec. 5, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration granted a special permit to Energy Transport Solutions LLC to move LNG […]
REGINA, Saskatchewan — Royal Canadian Mounted Police are diverting traffic away from roads near a derailment of a Canadian Pacific train in Saskatchewan. The RCMP for Saskatchewan’s Twitter account began posting shortly after 7 a.m. on the derailment and fire. A Canadian Pacific representative tells Trains the derailment happened west of Guernsey, Sask., and that […]
