NEW YORK — Amtrak has increased its funding commitment for the stalled Gateway tunnel project, which has seen the estimate of its overall cost move downward. The agency directing the project is hoping those two factors might increase the prospects of receiving federal funding. NorthJersey.com reports that Amtrak has increased its commitment by $600 million, […]
NEW YORK — Australian infrastructure investment firm First State Investments will acquire short line operator Patriot Rail and Ports from SteelRiver Infrastructure Partners, the companies announced today. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The Jacksonville, Fla., based Patriot Rail operates a dozen short line railroads, has a rail services arm, and is an East […]
WASHINGTON — Canadian National and Canadian Pacific have reached an interim agreement that settles their Chicago interchange dispute while the railroads await a formal Surface Transportation Board decision on the matter. CP informed the board of the interim agreement in a filing last week. Under the terms of the deal, CN will deliver CP-bound interchange […]
This is the eighth summer the famed East Broad Top narrow gauge railroad has remained closed. Wayne Laepple East Broad Top 2-8-2 No. 15 rolls in the summer of 2009. Trains: Jim Wrinn ORBISONIA, Pa. — The track is still there. The buildings are still there. The trim Mikados and hopper cars original to the […]
A rendering of the new Buffalo Amtrak station. Work is concluding on tearing down the old station, and work on the new buidling could begin in September. New York State Department of Transportation BUFFALO, N.Y. — Demolition of Amtrak’s former New York Central passenger station in Buffalo could conclude today, setting the stage for work […]
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Alvin “Pete” Carpenter, CSX Transportation president and CEO from 1992 to 1999, has died at age 77. The Florida Times-Union reports that Carpenter, who had been suffering from cancer, died on Aug. 20. Carpenter was vice chairman of the railroad’s parent company, CSX Corp., until his retirement in 2001. He began a […]
Wisconsin’s grant will cover the cost of new passenger cars, including cab cars to replace the former F40 locomotives currently used on the Hiawatha. TRAINS: David Lassen Eastbound Wolverine No. 350 slips through Marshall, Mich., east of Battle Creek, on Oct. 11, 2013. This area will see tie replacement thanks to a federal grant. Bob […]
SACRAMENTO — Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Transit Administration arrived Friday at the site of a collision of two Sacramento light rail trains that injured 27. On Thursday night, a train being tested by three maintenance workers collided with an in-service train. [See “Sacramento light-rail collision injures 27,” Trains News Wire, […]
A Metra UP West train departs La Fox, Ill., and heads towards its final stop in Elburn on July 29, 2019. Previously reported scheduled changes will not affect the line. David Lassen CHICAGO – Metra’s UP West Line schedule will not change Sept. 3 as previously reported on News Wire, and the current schedule will […]
Investigators are trying to determine why two CSX Transportation trains collided earlier this month in Ohio on a line protected by positive train control, the multibillion-dollar safety system designed to prevent collisions. The probe by the Federal Railroad Administration and CSX includes an examination of the proper activation, operation, and functioning of PTC on the […]
Byron “Barney” Olsen and his 1977 Town and Country Station Wagon in Dresser, Wis. in 2008. Steve Glischinski ST. PAUL, Minn. – Byron “Barney” Olsen, who balanced a career in railroad law for Great Northern, Burlington Northern and Soo Line while pursuing his interest in streetcar and railroad history, died in St. Paul last month […]
A BNSF Railway intermodal train heads east through Lisle, Ill., in June 2019. Continuing escalation of the U.S.-China trade war puts more forms of rail cargo at risk. TRAINS: David Lassen WASHINGTON — Large-volume customers that U.S. and Canadian railroads count on are increasingly being hit by the escalating China trade war. Agriculture and automobiles are […]
