PHILADELPHIA –– Railway Age and RT&S have been reporting for some time on the looming fiscal crisis about to befall many transit agencies in the country as money provided to survive the fallout from the COVID pandemic is about to run out.
CHICAGO –– This week, Metra and local officials gathered to celebrate the reconstruction of Grayland Station and the replacement of an adjacent bridge over Milwaukee Avenue on the North Side of Chicago which had been in service since 1899.
ONTARIO – The Ontario government and Metrolinx are moving closer to breaking ground on major construction for the Yonge North Subway Extension.
NEW YORK –– Amey, a provider of data-led, integrated asset management services based in London, has secured its first contract in the U.S. market with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) to deliver an Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) Implementation System for the Long Island Rail Road.
JACKSONVILLE –– Patriot Rail announced this week that Anthony Evett will become its Vice President of Design and Construction.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. –– Union Pacific recently announced the opening of it’s newest intermodal terminal in Kansas City.
WASHINGTON, D.C. –– The National Transportation Safety Board has released its Preliminary Report on a CN derailment in July that occurred on the Grenada Railroad near Sardis, Miss.
WASHINGTON, D.C. –– H.R. 516 – The Railroad Tax Maintenance Credit Modernization Bill now has 100 co-sponsors in the U.S. House of Representatives, according to the American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association.
DENVER — A BNSF employee suffered a major injury in a yard derailment this week.
NEW YORK and WASHINGTON, D.C. –– MTA and WMATA announced separate infrastructure maintenance that will include temporary weekend service changes.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Amtrak has added a new track and platform at Washington Union Station that it says will expand service capacity and improve the overall customer experience.
CHICAGO –– Metra’s weekday train schedules on the UP Northwest Line will be slightly reduced for about 1.5 months because of Union Pacific tie replacement work.
NEWTON, Ia. –– The Iowa Interstate Railroad has joined Jasper County in Iowa to purchase land for development of Newton Rail Park.
ATLANTA – From the August 2025 issue of RT&S, Editor-in-Chief David Lester writes about Class I merger chatter.
WASHINGTON, D.C. –– As expected, shipper concern about the announcement of the proposed UP+NS merger this morning has already begun. The American Chemistry Council (ACC) released a statement this afternoon.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. –– The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration awarded a Railroad Crossing Elimination (RCE) Grant of $2.5 million to Port KC.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. –– On Thursday, RT&S ran a story about $4 billion federal dollars already allocated to the California High Speed Rail Authority project in the process of being clawed back by the Trump Administration. California is now suing the FRA to prevent that from happening.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Transportation announced this week that the Federal Railroad Administration has terminated about $4 billion in funding for the California High Speed Rail project.
WASHINGTON, D.C. –– The federal Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency has warned that end-of-train devices (EOTs) are vulnerable to cyber breaches that could affect the train’s brake control system.
ATLANTA – From Railway Track and Structures July 2025 issue, Editor-in-Chief David Lester writes about the 30th anniversary of the Wheel-Rail Interaction Conference in Kansas City.
