BALTIMORE — Amtrak has selected a Kiewit/J.F. Shea Joint Venture to build the Frederick Douglass Tunnel, the replacement for 150-year-old B&P Tunnel which poses major operating issues on the Northeast Corridor just south of Baltimore Penn Station. The approximately $6 billion project involves construction of two parallel, single-track 2-mile tunnels, and will eliminate 30-mph speed […]
NEWARK, N.J. — The NJ Transit official who was fired last year from his job overseeing the Portal Bridge construction project claims in a lawsuit that the agency ignored his concerns about the bridge design, and that those concerns led to retaliation and discrimination. Mohammed Nasim was fired in October 2023 as head of construction […]
TORONTO — The government of Ontario will launch a program integrating fares on all transit systems in the Toronto area later this month, meaning transit users will essentially pay one fare no matter how many transfers they make. The One Fare program will include GO Transit, the Toronto Transit Commission, and several other agencies, with […]
PORT CLINTON, Pa. — The Reading & Northern Railroad has announced plans for its 2024 main line excursion schedule, which will begin Saturday, April 6, and has placed tckets for the schedule on sale. Regular-season excursions from Reading Outer Station in Reading, Pa., and Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Regional Station in Pittston, Pa., will operate on weekends through […]
TAUNTON, Mass. — Short line Mass Coastal Railroad is acquiring the assets of Bay Colony Railroad, which serves three customers on 35 miles of state-owned in southeastern Massachusetts, the Boston Globe reports. Mass Coastal currently operates 135 route-miles in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, including trackage rights on CSX Transportation, and interchanges with CSX in Taunton […]
TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey Senate President Nicolas Scutari has named Anthony Abrantes to fill a seat on the NJ Transit board vacated by Sangeeta Doshi, whose term expired Jan. 14, the New Jersey Herald reports. Abrantes, of East Hanover, N.J., is assistant executive secretary-treasurer of the Eastern Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters. He […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Most Sacramento light rail service was restored this afternoon (Monday, Feb. 5), following power outages and other storm damage that hit the Sacramento Regional Transit system on Sunday. An advisory on the Sacramento RT website says Blue Line service was restored at 2 p.m. with Green Line and a portion of the […]
ATLANTA – Norfolk Southern’s engineering team completed $1 billion in improvement projects last year, including installation of new wayside detectors as well as repairs and replacement of tracks, bridges, and grade crossings. “Our extensive infrastructure work is an important component of being a customer-centric, operations-driven railroad and represents an investment in the safety of our […]
Railroad reporting marks Railroad cars are identified by two, three, or four letters and by a number of up to six digits. The letters, known as reporting marks, indicate the owner of the car, while the number places it in the owner’s fleet. Reporting marks ending in X indicate ownership by a private concern as […]
WASHINGTON — NJ Transit will receive $75 million to support replace a 70-year-old facility damaged by Hurricane Ida in 2021, the Federal Transit Administration has announced. The money will go toward construction of a maintenance-of-way facility in Clifton, N.J., replacing what NJ Transit calls an obsolete and flood-prone facility in Wood-Ridge. “The new facility in […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Winter storms in Southern and Central California have impacted rail service in a number of areas today (Monday, Feb. 5). Today’s Coast Starlight trains will run abbreviated routes. The train scheduled to depart Los Angeles this morning will instead originate in Emeryville, Calif., while the train departing Seattle will terminate in Emeryville. […]
MIAMI — After four months of operation between Orlando and Miami, Brightline has dramatically increased patronage and revenue every month, especially for the component it designates as “long distance.” These are passengers who take the train to or from South Florida. A closer look at monthly data shows the company is actively managing the demand-influenced […]
