LOS ANGELES — Rapper Snoop Dogg will serve as host for LA Metro events of the reopening of its light rail A Line (formerly known as the Blue Line) on Saturday, Nov. 2. The rapper, along with Metro and Los Angeles officials, will be part of press conferences and reopening ceremonies at three sites: At […]
Equipment manufacturer Talgo is challenging the NTSB report that faulted the equipment involved in the December 2017 wreck of an Amtrak Cascades train and led to a recommendation that the trainsets be removed from service. Steve Carter SEATTLE — Passenger equipment builder Talgo has formally challenged a National Transportation Safety Board finding that led to […]
A hawk uses a Union Pacific PTC radio tower to survey the landscape for its next meal at La Fox, Ill., in September 2019. UP reports PTC has been implemented on 93 percent of the system mileage requiring the technology. TRAINS: David Lassen OMAHA, Neb. — Union Pacific now has positive train control operating on […]
NEW YORK — Amtrak is cancelling some trains and operating a modified schedule with others this afternoon as a result of “severe weather issues in the Northeast,” the passenger railroad says in an advisory on its website. Cancelled trains are: — Boston-New York Acela Express No. 2190; — Empire Service trains 280 (Niagara Falls-New York) and […]
A Canadian National crude oil trainset passes through River Forest, Ill., on Union Pacific on Sunday, Oct. 27. CN and Canadian Pacific will see an upswing in crude oil traffic following a decision by the province of Alberta to lift quotas on oil production if the oil moves by rail. TRAINS: David Lassen EDMONTON, Alberta […]
Thanksgiving-weekend travelers line the Holland, Mich., platform on Sunday, Dec. 1, 2013, for an extra Chicago-bound Pere Marquette. Bob Johnston Passengers grouped by departure snake through Chicago Union Station’s Great Hall on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving in 2018. Bob Johnston CHICAGO — Amtrak has touted more Midwest coach capacity out of the Windy City […]
An Austin MetroRail train awaits passengers at the Howard station in 2016. Austin could expand its transit system to include two light rail lines. TRAINS: David Lassen AUSTIN, Texas — Austin city officials have begun the process of determining how to pay for a transit expansion that could cost as much as $9.8 billion if […]
MORELIA, Mexico – Student protests have again shut down Kansas City Southern de Mexico service to the major Pacific coast port of Lázaro Cárdenas. KCSM suffered a similar disruption of service to the port in the state of Michoacán last week. [See “Protests disrupt service on KCS in Mexico,” Trains News Wire, Oct. 25, 2019.] […]
Lake Superior Railroad Museum DULUTH, Minn. – The Lake Superior Railroad Museum has begun fundraising to rebuild the interior of Northern Pacific coach No. 517. The car has been used for several years on the museum’s North Shore Scenic Railroad and after thousands of miles the car is in need of rehabilitation. The car will […]
A northbound NJ Transit train arrives at the Princeton Junction station in August 2019. NJ Transit has reached agreement on building a new station at North Brunswick, which will eventually be the next station north of Princeton Junction on the Northeast Corridor line. TRAINS: David Lassen NORTH BRUNSWICK, N.J. — A new NJ Transit station […]
An F125 locomotive leads a northbound Metrolink Ventura County Line train at Chatsworth, Calif., in February 2018. Speed restrictions imposed because of area wildfires are delaying trains on the line today. TRAINS: David Lassen Railroads and transit lines in California have long dealt with wildfires, which can delay or halt trains, but the latest fires […]
TACOMA, Wash — The company which operates Rainer Rail plans to acquire a 4.4-mile segment of Tacoma Rail’s Mountain Division in Washington state. The track runs from Rainier in Thurston County to McKenna in Pierce County. That segment connects with a 34.6-mile line between Chehalis and Yelm that Rainier Rail bought from the city of Tacoma […]
