White House releases 55-page, $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan

By Mallory Shelbourne, The Hill; February 12, 2018 The White House on Monday officially released a 55-page proposal for President…

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India: Five elephants killed due to train-hit in Assam

From A Correspondent Report, The Shillong Times; February 11, 2018 GUWAHATI: At least five wild elephants were killed after they…

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Top U.S. Railroad Official Out After Reports of Moonlighting

By Arit John, Bloomberg Politics; February 10, 2018 Heath Hall has resigned as a top official with the Federal Railroad…

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Boston: How a judge’s son got to be a commuter rail engineer despite multiple drunken driving charges

By Andrea Estes, Staff, Boston Globe; February 10, 2018 He was so drunk that August night in 2012 that his…

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New Jersey Senators Booker, Menendez slam Trump on rail safety as Democrats block nominee

By Curtis Tate, Staff Writer, NorthJersey.com; February 9, 2018 HOBOKEN — New Jersey’s U.S. senators ripped into the Trump administration…

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Acela pull-apart preliminary findings: FRA

By William C. Vantuono, Editor-in-Chief, Railway Age Magazine; February 8, 2018 The Federal Railroad Administration has issued preliminary findings on…

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Camel trains are holding up Ethiopia’s new railway line

From The Economist; February 10, 2018 “MORE than any other technical design or social institution,” wrote the late British historian,…

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Expanding Amtrak service from Milwaukee to Chicago would require $195 million in track upgrades

By Arthur Thomas, Milwaukee Business News; February 8, 2018 Adding three additional daily roundtrips to the Amtrak Hiawatha line between…

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Silver Star conductor’s wife blames Amtrak, CSX negligence in deadly Cayce, South Carolina train crash

By The Associated Press, Tribune-Review; February 8, 2018 COLUMBIA, S.C. — The wife of a conductor killed in a South…

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Amtrak CEO to Testify Before U.S. House in Wake of Accidents

By David Shepardson, Reuters, U.S. News & World Report; February 8, 2018 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Amtrak Chief Executive Officer Richard…

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EXCLUSIVE: ‘Inexplicable and Irresponsible’ — Top Transportation Official Goes After Schumer After String Of Amtrak Crashes

By Jack Crowe, Political Reporter, The Daily Caller; February 7, 2018 A senior Department of Transportation official derided Senate Minority…

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Crozet, Virginia Neighbors Offer Support to Time Disposal Crews Following Deadly Amtrak Crash

By Matt Talhelm, WVIR NBC 29; February 7, 2018 ALBEMARLE COUNTY, Va. (WVIR) – Neighbors in Crozet are showing their…

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Amtrak considering Marfa, Texas stop for the Sunset Limited

By JOHN DANIEL GARCIA, bigbendnow.com; February 8, 2018 MARFA – Thanks to a letter writing campaign from San Antonio resident…

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Opinion: Justice derailed? The prosecution of Brandon Bostian

An editorial from The Intelligencer; February 8, 2018 Should Brandon Bostian go to jail? The 34-year-old engineer was at the…

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The Daily CSX: And, on the third day, to no one’s surprise, the first lawsuit was filed in the Silver Star/CSX collision in Cayce, South Carolina

Train crash lawsuit alleges ‘gross negligence’ by CSX in fatal South Carolina derailment By John Monk, The State; February 8,…

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Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway, employees fined in Lac-Mégantic case

By Stuart Chirls, Senior Editor, Railway Age Magazine; February 6, 2018 Six former employees, including the chief executive of the…

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India sets rail budget at record $US 23.3bn

By Srinand Jha, International Railway Journal; February 2, 2018 INDIA’s finance minister Mr Arun Jaitley has announced a budget of…

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Testing, Cost Among Reasons For Slow Arrival Of ‘Positive Train Control’ Technology

By Mark Rumsey, WFAE 90.7; Februry 6, 2018 It’s been about a decade since Congress passed a law mandating that…

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What’s going on with Amtrak? Few passengers killed on trains, but high-profile crashes spark concerns

By Bart Jansen, USA TODAY; February 6, 2018 A spate of fatal Amtrak accidents in recent months is focusing renewed…

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All Aboard Florida: Who’s in charge of Brightline safety gates? Spat between feds, state concerns local officials

By Colleen Wixon, TCPalm.com; February 6, 2018 INDIAN RIVER COUNTY — An argument between two transportation agencies — over whose job it…

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All Aboard Florida: Citing train deaths, Miami-Dade mayor wants safety check before Brightline comes south

By Martin Vassolo, Miami Herald; February 6, 2018 Before Brightline comes rolling through Miami-Dade County, Mayor Carlos Gimenez has asked…

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Deadly S.C. Amtrak crash unlikely to deter riders, experts say

  By Deanna Pan, The Post and Courier; February 6, 2018 The deadly collision Sunday of an Amtrak passenger train…

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NTSB: Failure to screen New Jersey Transit engineer for sleeping disorder caused 2016 Hoboken crash

By Curtis Tate, Staff Writer, NorthJersey.com; February 6, 2018 WASHINGTON, D.C. — The chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board took…

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Safety upgrades for Positive Train Control may be to blame for deadly Amtrak crash

By Danielle Furfaro, Reuven Fenton and Max Jaeger, New York Post; February 5, 2018 Safety upgrades may have actually contributed…

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Amtrak Acela train breaks apart at 125 mph

By Danielle Furfaro, New York Post; February 6, 2018 A high-speed Amtrak train bound for Penn Station broke apart as…

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