By David C. Lester, Managing Editor, RT&S Magazine; July 13, 2020 New Mexico’s Rio Metro Regional Transit District, also known…
By Andrew Corselli, Managing Editor, Railway Age Magazine; June 16, 2020 Virgin Trains USA (VTUSA), more commonly known under its original name,…
By Jesse Scheckner, Miami Today; May 26, 2020 Several steps remain before Tri-Rail can run on Brightline tracks to MiamiCentral…
By Darren Prokop, Freight Waves; January 16, 2020 Railroads and pipelines, unlike other modes of transportation, have to finance and…
By Catherine Lackner, Miami Today; December 3, 2019 Thousands of would-be downtown commuters wait anxiously to learn when Tri-Rail trains…
By Sam Mintz, Politico Morning Transportation; August 20, 2019 — Fifty years after a fatal train crash in Connecticut,which led…
By Catherine Lackner, Miami Today; June 18, 2019 Another roadblock has temporarily stalled Tri-Rail trains from steaming into Miami Central…
By Mike Lindblom, Staff Reporter, Seattle Times; May 21, 2019 Washington state’s lightweight Talgo trains that carried 800,000 Amtrak Cascades…
By John Breunig, Editorial Page Editor, The Stamford Advocate; April 28, 2019 I hop aboard the 9:05 a.m. from Danbury…
By Jim Blaze, Freight Waves; March 29, 2019 Today, freight railroading has the opportunity to use two business processes to…
By William C. Vantuono, Editor-in-Chief, Railway Age Magazine; March 4, 2019 “HOW SAFE ARE AMERICA’S RAILROADS? Lesley Stahl reports on…
By Colt Shaw, Staff Writer, PressofAtlanticCity.com; February 5, 2019 For weeks, one of the reasons given for the continued shutdown…
A press release from Union Pacific Railroad; February 5, 2019: Omaha, Nebraska Union Pacific installed Positive Train Control (PTC) equipment…
By Vince Gerasole, CBS Chicago 2; February 1, 2019 CHICAGO (CBS) — Metra users are used to alerts after a…
From Progressive Railroading Magazine; January 28, 2019 New Jersey Transit late last week announced plans to begin restoring rail service…
By Curtis Tate, North Jersey Record; January 3, 2019 Yes, NJ Transit finished the required work on a safety system…
By Larry Higgs, NJ.com; January 3, 2019 Why is there an empty rail car that is unavailable to commuters in…
By Sam Mintz, Politico Morning Transportation; January 2, 2019 … —All 41 railroads required by law to implement positive train…
By Mark Schlinkmann, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Cherokee Tribune & Ledger-News; December 31, 2018 While most of a $1.95-billion upgrade of the…
From Progressive Railroading Magazine; December 21, 2018 U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) yesterday announced $9.16 million in federal funding toward…
By Tom Banse, NW News Network; December 18, 2018 Last December’s Amtrak derailment near DuPont, Washington, did more than cost…
By Alex Bruell, Reporter, TDN.com; December 18, 2018 Amtrak and state transportation officials say they’ve completed installation of a new…
From Progressive Railroading Magazine; November 8, 2018 The Virginia Railway Express (VRE) is considering raising fares by 3 percent in…
By Elise Young, Bloomberg; October 18, 2018 A New Jersey Transit safety project that’s strangling train service to Manhattan was…
A press release from the United States Government Accountability Office; October 3, 2018: Forty railroads, including Amtrak, commuter, and freight…