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A southbound Canadian National container train passes through Sussex, Wis., in 2015. TRAINS: Brian Schmidt MONTREAL – Canadian National executives don’t expect the coronavirus pandemic to alter global supply chains and return manufacturing to North America from China and elsewhere in Asia. CSX Transportation and Union Pacific executives last week said they expected the global […]
Tuesday morning rail news: — The board overseeing the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority has approved an upgrade to an all-electronic fare system, a project that now cost an estimated $930 million — $210 more than when it was first approved two years ago. The Boston Globe reports the Fiscal Management and Control Board approved changes […]
More Tuesday morning rail news: — The city of Jackson, Miss., is suing Canadian National over a long-disputed underpass beneath the railroad’s right-of-way, demanding CN pays the full cost of reopening the once heavily-used route. The Jackson Clarion Ledger reports the city says the closure of Walter Dutch Welch Drive in west Jackson — shut […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Siemens Mobility has been awarded a contract from Sacramento Regional Transit for 20 new light rail vehicles. This is the first new order from Sacramento since the late 1980s, when the transit agency ordered 36 U2A vehicles from Siemens Mobility. The contract, including the 20 trains, spare parts and tools is worth […]
More Monday rail news: — InnoTrans, the world’s largest rail trade fair, has been rescheduled to April 27-30, 2021, in Berlin. The event, held every other year, was postponed from its original date of Sept. 22-25 of this year when Berlin’s government placed a ban on events with more than 5,000 people through Oct. 24. […]
No. 4310 poses for photos on April 20 following its repainting. Terry Redeker Rock Island in Mississippi Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railroad LLC is the operator of the Mississippi Delta Railroad in northwest Mississippi under a long-term contract with options to renew. The company has repainted its first locomotive in the original Chicago, Rock […]
Monday morning rail news: — Reconstruction work on the New York subway L Train tunnel between Manhattan and Brooklyn is complete, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday, and regular service will resume today — within the constraints of the current Essential Service Plan limiting Metropolitan Transportation Authority operations because of the COVID-19 virus. Work […]
Monday afternoon rail news: — Siemens Mobility is making donations totaling $150,000 to food banks in 10 U.S. cities to support those in need during the coronavirus pandemic. “We have all been impacted by the pandemic and each community is working to manage through its challenges,” Marc Buncher, CEO of Siemens Mobility in North America, […]
Amtrak’s northbound Hiawatha arrives in Milwaukee on time on Thursday afternoon. It was the final trip for the Hiawatha before rail service was suspended; beginning today, bus service will replace the train between Chicago and Milwaukee for at least a month because of the COVID-19 outbreak. TRAINS: David Lassen WASHINGTON — Although Amtrak is in […]
CSX says it is “carefully developing plans” to allow employees to return to its headquarters in Jacksonville, Fla. TRAINS: Jim Wrinn As some states move toward lifting business restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, Class I railroads are in no rush to have their employees return to headquarters. Texas, Florida, and Georgia — home to […]
Friday morning rail news: — Utah’s legislature has again passed a law which would remove the exemption for locomotive fuel from the state’s fuel tax — a bill similar to one vetoed by Gov. Gary Hebert earlier this year. The Provo Daily Herald reports the funds from 4.85% tax is expected to generate about $2.6 […]
Association of American Railroads WASHINGTON — The Association of American Railroads this week reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending April 18, 2020. For this week, total U.S. weekly rail traffic was 403,283 carloads and intermodal units, down 23.3% compared with the same week last year. Total carloads for the week ending April 18 […]
