SANDAG Plans For Rail Tunnel Under Del Mar Opposed by Residents
DEL MAR, Calif. – The saga of rail line troubles along the southern California coast continues, with opposition to a proposed remedy for the Del Mar area.
DEL MAR, Calif. – The saga of rail line troubles along the southern California coast continues, with opposition to a proposed remedy for the Del Mar area.
WASCO, Calif. – The California High-Speed Rail Authority (Authority), in collaboration with California Rail Builders and the city of Wasco, [this week] celebrated the completion of the Poso Avenue grade separation project. The underpass is now open to traffic.
ATLANTA – Brent Laing, Vice President of Engineering at Canadian National has been named Engineer of the Year for 2023 by Railway Track & Structures.
ATLANTA – Next week, I will be hosting our annual look at the proper ways to prepare your railroad for winter with three distinguished speakers who are experts in the field of winter preparedness for the railroad industry.
ATLANTA – The August Digital edition of Railway Track & Structures is now on-line.
ATLANTA – Railway Track & Structures is pleased to announce the appointment of an Editorial Board comprised of industry experts. While I, as Editor-in-Chief and Jennifer McLawhorn, as Managing Editor, will be responsible for the content and production of RT&S our Editorial Board will provide guidance and support to make RT&S more useful to our readers and the railroad industry.
CHESTERTON, Ind. – For the past two years, the South Shore Commuter Line, formally known as the Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District, or NICTD has been working on double-tracking its line between Michigan City and Gary, Ind.
ROANOKE – Norfolk Southern’s (née Norfolk & Western’s) locomotive shops in Roanoke, Va., originally known as the Roanoke Machine Works was the city’s largest employer and manufactured some of the best, most advanced steam locomotives to ride the rails.
RT&S JULY 2023 ISSUE – The short line industry is being battered about these days by proposed federal legislation that is slow to move and overly aggressive state legislation that borders on being laughable.
RT&S JULY 2023 ISSUE – If you are a regular reader of our sister magazine, Railway Age, you likely read editor Bill Vantuono’s note on page 2 of the June issue that Railway Age and Railway Track & Structures have entered a new partnership with the National Railway Historical Society (NRHS) to present the “Outstanding Railroad Historic Preservation Award.”
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. Daily Pacific Surfliner service through San Clemente will resume starting Monday, July 17.
RT&S, JULY 2023 ISSUE – Setting the Example: Bringing technical expertise and hard work to rail engineering.
NEWARK, N.J. and NEW YORK, N.Y. – The Gateway Development Commission (GDC) announced last week that the Hudson Tunnel Project has entered the Engineering Phase of the Federal Transit Administration’s (FTA) Capital Investment Grants (CIG) Program and that the FTA had updated the project to receive an up to a $6.88 Billion CIG Program grant.
WASHINGTON – Amtrak service on the Northeast Corridor was delayed this morning due to an issue with overhead power.
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation awarded grants to the state of New Jersey to assist with projects associated with work on the New Jersey side of the Gateway Tunnel Project.
NEW YORK – It is generally agreed that one of the major indignities hurled at railroad history and American architectural history is the destruction of the Pennsylvania Railroad’s Pennsylvania Station in 1963.
ATLANTA – The digital edition of the July issue of Railway Track & Structures is now online.
CARLSBAD, Calif. – The Carlsbad City Council is going to contribute $5.2 million toward a project to trench and double-track the railroad through Carlsbad Village.
CHICAGO – The National Transportation Safety Board has issued its Final Report on a Chicago Transit Authority employee fatality.
CHICAGO – Metra announced this week that Union Pacific tie work will delay some trains by 30 minutes.