Down Under: 17 things to watch out for during 17 hours of Australia’s The Indian Pacific

By Dan Barrett, SBS; December 20, 2018 The Indian Pacific: Australia’s Longest Train Journey winds delivers 17 hours of well-measured train…

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Amtrak: Number-crunching doesn’t do it justice

Opinion By Joseph A. Boardman, Railway Age Magazine; December 21, 2018 Today, as well as for most of its existence,…

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Man who loved riding on top of passenger trains is decapitated by bridge in North Carolina

By Jimmy McCloskey, Metro.co.uk; December 21, 2018 A man who loved riding on top of passenger trains was decapitated after…

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Colorado: Ride, ski and sip: Winter Park Express adding days of operation for 2019

By Ed Sealover Reporter, Denver Business Journal; December 20, 2018 The Amtrak Winter Park Express is adding more days of…

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Trial date set for engineer in 2015 Amtrak Northeast Corridor derailment

The Amtrak engineer charged with the deaths of eight people in a 2015 derailment in Philadelphia is scheduled to face…

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Massachusetts considering a Boston East-West rail link — no tunnel needed

By Adam Vaccaro, Globe Staff, Boston Globe;  December 21, 2018 There’s been a lot of talk over the years about…

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Cascades Service: Last year’s Amtrak derailment set back regional train service expansion by years

By Tom Banse, NW News Network; December 18, 2018 Last December’s Amtrak derailment near DuPont, Washington, did more than cost…

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Washington State DOT says it’s on track for train safety deadline

By Alex Bruell, Reporter, TDN.com; December 18, 2018 Amtrak and state transportation officials say they’ve completed installation of a new…

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Rival train companies in UK to be allowed to run the same routes

By Claire Webb, i News; December 18, 2018 Rail passengers may soon be able to choose which train company they…

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Denver’s tall buildings partly to blame for A-Line, G-Line problems, Regional Transportation District tells feds

By John Aguilar, The Denver Post; December 17, 2018 Denver’s recent runaway growth, with high rises going up at a record…

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New law provides oversight of New Jersey Transit, a voice for South Jersey riders

By Colt Shaw, Staff Writer, Press of Atlantic City; December 20, 2018 Disgruntled rail riders were handed a megaphone Thursday,…

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Arizona: Development around light rail has changed Phoenix, Tempe and Mesa

By Catherine Reagor and Jessica Boehm, Arizona Republic; December 20, 2018 Uptown Phoenix’s Camelback Road and Central Avenue area was…

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Australia: What could go wrong? Passenger is filmed climbing out the side of a speeding train as onlookers slam him as a ‘dangerous idiot’

By Sahr Mourad, Daily Mail Australia; December 16, 2018 An idiotic passenger has been filmed in performing a dangerous stunt…

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Crossing the Rubicon: Amtrak effectively admits a key piece of its overblown, overpriced Gateway plan is a waste

By The Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News; December 16, 2018 After years of blasting Amtrak for its…

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California: Because they’re out of colors, Los Angeles Metro will rename all its train lines and rapid busways with letters in 2019

By Steve Scauzillo, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Los Angeles Daily News; December 13, 2018 What’s the problem with continuing to…

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Texas: TEXRail trains moving full steam ahead into Grapevine

By Miranda Jaimes, Community Impact Newspaper; December 12, 2018 After 13 years of discussion, 29 months of construction and almost…

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Can a train station turn this ugly part of Fort Worth, Texas into a smokin’ hot neighborhood?

By Gordon Dickson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram; December 11, 2018 FORT WORTH On the northern edge of the Trinity River, near…

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An Introductory Guide to Train Travel in the United States

By Nathaniel Adams, The Manual; December 10, 2018 It’s sad, but true, that the golden age of rail travel has…

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Delicacies of the Dining Car

A Book Review By Corby Kummer, The New York Times; November 28, 2018 FOOD ON THE MOVE Dining on the…

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New Jersey Transit rolls out rider communications initiative

From Progressive Railroading Magazine; December 7, 2018 New Jersey Transit on Wednesday announced it launched a communications initiative aimed at…

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SantaCon threatens to bring Jingle Hell to New York City — again

By Doree Lewak, New York Post; December 5, 2018 It’s a day that gives Santa Claus a bad name and…

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Long Island Railroad says it loses $20M yearly from folks who don’t pay their fares

By Alfonso A. Castillo, Newsday; December 4, 2018 The Long Island Rail Road is losing about $20 million a year…

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Growing Alaska’s Gold Rush railroad

By David Thomas, Canadian Contributing Editor, Railway Age Magazine; December 5, 2018 Ever since the first rail was laid in 1898 to…

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