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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation is expanding a loan program to benefit short line and regional railroads. On Dec. 12, U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao announced the Railroad Rehabilitation and Investment Financing Express program (RRIF Express) was accepting loan applications for projects that will specifically modernize the freight rail network in rural […]
BNSF has restored these former Santa Fe cars for ‘snow coach’ duty. BNSF Railway WHITEFISH, Mont. — BNSF Railway has restored two former Santa Fe hi-level coaches and two baggage cars for service as “snow coaches” this winter. BNSF officials tell Trains News Wire that the coaches will be used to move crews when regular […]
An inbound Metra BNSF train pauses at the Metra station in Clarendon Hills, Ill., in September. The station will be torn down in January to allow for construction of a new building. TRAINS: David Lassen CLARENDON HILLS, Ill. — Groundbreaking is scheduled for Jan. 6, 2020, for the downtown revitalization project including a new Clarendon […]
A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit this week brought against CSX by residents evacuated following a 2017 derailment in Hyndman, Pennsylvania. The Altoona Mirror newspaper is reporting that U.S. District Judge Kim R. Gibson dismissed the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania by several Hyndman residents in relation to […]
Norfolk Southern 4271 leads the three other F-units at Knoxville, Tenn., in November 2011 as Southern Railway 2-8-0 stands by. Trains: Jim Wrinn ALTOONA, Pa. — The last two of Norfolk Southern’s four executive F-units now have a home. F9A No. 271 and F7B No. 276 have been purchased by North Carolina’s Aberdeen Carolina & […]
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Ridership on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s new service from its Gillette Stadium station is well under the target figure to retain the pilot program, the Attleboro, Mass., Sun-Chronicle reports. Through seven weeks, an average of 70 people per day are using the station, state Department of Transportation spokeswoman Lisa Battison, who said […]
NJ Transit and Amtrak trains stop at the Newark Airport station. At a Thursday hearing on NJ Transit, one expert testified that road access to the station — which currently connects only to an airport monorail — would be a valuable addition. Ralph Spielman TRENTON, N.J. — The need for new funding sources is crucial […]
UP’s local arrives at the old M&StL depot in New Prague on Sept. 4, 2012. Steve Glischinski NEW PRAGUE, Minn. – Employees at Miller Milling in New Prague got coal in their Christmas stocking this month when the company announced it was shutting down its mill in New Prague served by Union Pacific. The flour […]
Trains editors talk about the rail news that is fit to speak for the week of Dec. 13, 2019. In this episode, Jim and Steve talk about BNSF “snow coaches”, a Wabtec battery locomotive, weekly carload traffic, and more! Only from Trains! […]
HAGERSTOWN, Md. — MARC commuter train service continues without change into West Virginia, even though a deadline for West Virginia to fund the service has passed, with a local legislator saying negotiations are continuing. MARC’s Brunswick line from Washington, D.C., serves two West Virginia communities — Duffields and Martinsburg — even though West Virginia has never […]
A Newark-bound NJ Transit Raritan Valley Line train arrives at Newark Penn Station in June 2019 with ALP45-DP No. 4519 at the point. NJ Transit has approved a bond issue to pay for 17 more of the locomotives as well as 600 buses. Ralph Spielman NEWARK, N.J. — NJ Transit’s board has approved a bond […]
A Coaster commuter train climbs Miramar Hill near San Diego in January 2016. Coaster and Amtrak service to San Diego will be disrupted this week by work to address bluff erosion in Del Mar, Calif. TRAINS: David Lassen DEL MAR, Calif. — Work to stabilize eroding coastal bluffs in Del Mar will disrupt Amtrak Surfliner […]
