All aboard: Plan calls for passenger rail between St. Paul, Minnesota and Eau Claire, Wisconsin

By Janet Moore, Star Tribune; June 19, 2018 Earlier this spring, a group of boosters gathered in Eau Claire —…

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Warren County, New York terminates Iowa Pacific railroad contract

By Don Lehman, The Post Star; June 15, 2018 QUEENSBURY — Saratoga & North Creek Railway was officially booted off…

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Linking Commuter Rail to Jobs, Housing, and Opportunity in Eastern Massachusetts

By Benjamin Forman, The American Prospect; June 18, 2018 Waiting at a suburban station for the train to Boston, I…

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Hotel, residential and office space planned for land around Chicago Union Station

By Fran Spielman, Chicago Sun-Times; June 18, 2018 After years of big-picture planning and behind-the-scenes bargaining, plans are finally forging…

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Connecticut: Over 20,000 rode CTrail trains during free first weekend

By Jim Kinney, masslive.com; June 18, 2018 SPRINGIFELD — More than 20,000 riders took advantage of free trips on the…

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AT WORK: Train conductor for the new Hartford Line

By Ashley Kus, Staff, Record-Journal; June 16, 2018 As the long anticipated New Haven-Hartford-Springfield rail line launches, a dozen conductors…

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Connecticut: A new rail link between Hartford and New Haven and ‘life completely changed’

By Clarice Silber, The Connecticut Mirror; June 18, 2018 Bronx resident Thomas Rome would regularly crisscross between New York City…

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Chicago Union Station developer to detail plans

By Greg Hinz, Crain’s Chicago Business; June 18, 2018 After more than a year of behind-the-scenes negotiations, developer John O’Donnell…

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Boston North-South Rail Link would cost $12 billion, maybe much, much more

By Adam Vaccaro, Staff, Boston Globe; June 18, 2018 Connecting North and South train stations in Boston by underground tunnel…

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Reimagining Amtrak stations

By Andrew C. Selden, Railway Age Magazine; June 18, 2018 Amtrak is embarked upon an aggressive plan to “de-staff” the…

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New York Lawmakers Press for LaGuardia Airport Rail Link

By Katie Honan and Paul Berger, The Wall Street Journal; June 18, 2018 LaGuardia Airport is pushing ahead with plans…

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Conductors, commuters alike take to social media, blogs to spark conversation

By Colleen Ferguson, Rockland/Westchester Journal News; June 18, 2018 For Howard Rosenstein, the Facebook posts started one freezing February morning…

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Southbound City of New Orleans train breaks down en route to Memphis

By David Royer, WREG News Channel 3; June 15, 2018 MEMPHIS, Tenn. — An Amtrak train en route from Chicago…

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Canada – Owners of the rail line to Churchill, Manitoba, had duty to fix it: regulators

By The Canadian Press, Times-Colonist; June 15, 2018 WINNIPEG — Federal regulators have ruled that the owners of a broken…

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Hartford Line Could Be Boon To Connecticut’s Housing Market

By Kenneth R. Gosselin, Reporter, Hartford Courant; June 15, 2018 For decades, the Metro-North rail line has allowed workers to…

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Sneak Preview: Ride The Hartford Line With Us Before Saturday’s Grand Opening Of New Commuter Railroad in Connecticut

By Matthew Ormseth, Reporter, Hartford Courant; June 13, 2018 There was a whistle — a short one, not very loud…

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Launch of New Hartford Passenger Line Part of ‘Train Renaissance’ in Connecticut

By Claire Hall, UConn Today; June 14, 2018 The Hartford Line is a new commuter rail service between New Haven…

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Tunnel collapse forces Amtrak to bus Coast Starlight passengers through central Oregon

By Craig Sailor, The News Tribune; June 13, 2018 Amtrak’s Coast Startlight train still leaves from Tacoma every day, but…

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Chicago Metra apologizes for crammed trains on BNSF line after changes

By Marni Pyke, Chicago Daily Herald; June 12, 2018 Two days into its revised schedules on the BNSF Line, Metra…

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Expanded north-south rail service from Springfield, Massachusetts to begin in June 2019

By Jim Kinney, masslive.com; June 12, 2018 About a year from now, travelers will be able to leave Greenfield on…

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Northampton, Massachusetts mayor sees busy train station getting busier with planned north-south Knowledge Corridor service expansion

By Jim Kinney, masslive.com; June 13, 2018 Northampton Mayor David J. Narkewicz knows that an old technology — the passenger…

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India: After Reports Of Toilet Water Being Used, IRCTC To Livestream Trains’ Kitchens For Passengers

By Sanjay Dutta and Mahendra K Singh, India Times; June 13, 2018 The railways has decided to live-stream footage of…

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Indonesia: More ‘Sleeper’ luxury trains to be operated if demand increases

From The News Desk, The Jakarta Post; June 13, 2018 State-owned railway operator PT Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI) has said…

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Passenger rail supporters expect new provincial government in Ontario to make good on campaign promise

By Staff, Northern Ontario Business; June 12, 2018 Citizens campaigning for the return of passenger rail in northeastern and southwestern Ontario…

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