A Sounder commuter train arrives in Lakewood, Wash., in June 2018. Sound Transit is considering improvements for its service to Lakewood including additional trains or extending the line further south. TRAINS: David Lassen SEATTLE — Sound Transit is planning a series of community “drop-in sessions” to consider how it might spend almost a billion dollars […]
PORTLAND, Ore. — A busy bridge into a Portland industrial area could be backed up for weeks or even months as a result of a Union Pacific derailment on Saturday. Four of the six lanes of the North Going Street bridge have been shut down after two locomotives and three tank cars derailed in a […]
NOBLESVILLE, Ind. — More than a dozen pieces of historical railroad equipment formerly owned by the Indiana Railroad Museum will be scrapped if they are not successfully sold during an auction beginning Monday. According to a listing on the website for railroad equipment broker Ozark Mountain Railcar, 17 pieces of equipment, including two locomotives, a […]
The Moffat Cup, long stored, is now on display at Denver’s Union Station. John Crisanti 1904 cup was a gift for building a railroad across the Rockies. John Crisanti DENVER — It was a historic day for Colorado railroad history on Friday when a giant silver cup made out of pure silver weighing 230-pounds with […]
More than two-thirds of the premium parking spaces at Barrington’s Metra station have been sold in advance of the new premium lot’s opening. TRAINS: David Lassen BARRINGTON, Ill. — More than two-thirds of the spaces in a new premium parking lot for the Barrington Metra station have been sold in advance of the lot’s opening […]
SANDPOINT, Idaho — The U.S. Coast Guard has issued a favorable ruling for BNSF Railway’s efforts to build a second set of bridges on its main line near Sandpoint, a plan which has been fought by some local residents. The Coast Guard — which has jurisdiction because the bridge is over a navigable waterway — […]
Cass Climax No. 9 steams on Thursday. Cass Scenic Railroad CASS, W.VA. — A restoration project that dates back almost 50 years has come to completion at the Cass Scenic Railroad in the heart of the Back Alleghany Mountains of West Virginia. Moore-Keppel & Co. three-truck Climax No. 9 returned to steam Thursday. The locomotive […]
WASHINGTON — Congress returns from its long summer recess Monday with just three weeks to hammer out funding and avoid another government shutdown. Absent appropriations, the U.S. Department of Transportation and most other federal branches would largely shutter operations, as they did for 35 days starting last December. While Congress and the White House grabbed headlines […]
LANHAM, Md. — The first section of rail has been laid on a 16-mile light rail project connection New Carrollton and Bethesda, Md. Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan was among officials taking part in the first-rail ceremony Thursday for the Purple Line, WTOP Radio reports. Construction began two years ago on the $5.6-billion project. Its 21-station […]
YOKOHAMA, Japan — A warning light alerted the driver of a Japanese commuter train that there was an obstacle in the train’s path, but he was unable to stop in time to avoid hitting a produce truck at a grade crossing. The driver of the truck was killed, a rare fatal rail accident for Japan. [See […]
This Northern Pacific painting by Gil Bennett is among those on display. KALISPELL, Mont. – The work of more than 30 prominent railroad artists will be on display this fall at the Hockaday Museum of Art in Kalispell. “Hear the Whistle Blow: Art of the Railway” runs Sept. 27 through Dec. 7 and is being […]
NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. — R.J. Corman Railroad Co. has finalized an agreement to lease a short line near Birmingham, Ala., which becomes the company’s 14th short line. The R.J. Corman Childersburg Line is a 13.32-mile railroad in Coosa Pines, Ala., being leased from the City of Childersburg Local Redevelopment, Norfolk Southern, and CSX Transportation. NS and […]
