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 […]
Cheyenne, Wyo. – Wasatch Railroad Contractors is marking 20 years of service in 2019. “Twenty Years! It is so hard to believe,” Chairman and CEO John Rimmasch says. “You watch other companies celebrate the same milestone and wonder if you will ever make it, but here we are! From our humble beginnings serving the amusement […]
The joint Milwaukee Road / Soo Line depot at Pembine, Wis., burned Monday. Alexander D. Mitchell IV PEMBINE, Wis. — A fire, believed to be arson, destroyed the joint Milwaukee Road/Soo Line depot at Pembine, Wis., Monday morning. The fire, reported at 10:43 a.m., according to local media sources, burned the structure to the foundation, […]
PITTSBURG, Calif. — Bombardier Transportation announced Friday it would open a new railcar assembly plant in Pittsburg, with new Bay Area Rapid Transit cars to be the first equipment built at the site. Assembly of equipment for the 775-car order is currently taking place at Bombardier’s plant in upstate New York, but will be transferred […]
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 […]
CSX 911 and 1776 will add to the fire truck festival at the N.C. Transportation Museum Saturday. Chris Anderson SPENCER, N.C. — Commemorative locomotives from CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern Railway are set to meet for the first time at an event at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer this weekend. The museum says […]
Union Pacific, Kansas City Southern, Norfolk Southern, and Florida East Coast have launched interline domestic intermodal service connecting California, Dallas, and Chicago with central Florida. The service, which launched today, uses the FEC terminal in Titusville, Fla., about 40 miles east of Orlando, Fla. UP handles both private and EMP containers between its terminals in […]
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 […]
Strasburg’s Craig Lefever SRR STRASBURG, Pa. — Craig Lefever, who became Strasburg Rail Road’s president last December, has died, the railroad said in a letter distributed Monday. He was 52. Lefever succeeded Linn Moedinger, who retired from Strasburg Rail Road on Dec. 21, 2018. Lefever, who was hired by Strasburg Rail Road Co. in 1987, […]
ST. LOUIS — Amtrak’s Missouri River Runner has resumed full service between St. Louis and Kansas City, just two days after a partial resumption of service. Both daily round trips between the two cities were restored on Saturday, more than three weeks after the rail service was suspended because of additional freight traffic on the […]
FULTS, Ill. — A Union Pacific train hit a tractor at a grade crossing in a rural area about 40 miles south of St. Louis on Friday evening, killing the driver of the tractor and derailing 30 cars of the train. The Republic-Times newspaper reports that Monroe County coroner identified the victim as 23-year-old Jonah […]
