There’s another vantage point on work on – and into – the new rail passage in the heart of some of the busiest highway traffic in Canada. We have some good video taken of the mighty Highway 401 and 409 Rail Tunnel project.
Shawn Vecellio has joined TTCI as Senior Assistant Vice President–Operations & Safety. Shawn’s 26 years of experience in the rail industry provides a strong foundation to lead TTCI’s Operations and Safety teams.
To assist the company in meeting its strategic objectives, the railroad holding company Anacostia Rail Holdings (ARH) has created an Advisory Board made up of individuals with extensive leadership experience in the railroad industry.
For the past several decades, Penn Station in New York has been functional, but that’s about it. Given the importance of the station in the life of the city and the Northeast Corridor, the now mostly underground facility, once considered among the grandest buildings in New York, looks more like a regional airport than a classic passenger rail terminal.
Discussion about maintaining commuter rail operations may grow as pandemic continues.
OmniTRAX, Inc., a comprehensive supply chain logistics solutions provider and the transportation affiliate of The Broe Group, has officially begun operations as the new rail partner of Southern Indiana’s world-class industrial and business development park, the River Ridge Commerce Center.
The Eglinton Crosstown LRT project reached an exciting milestone this week (Nov.1), as crews laid down the last section of track along the 19-kilometre rapid transit line. Get a glimpse of this historic moment for transit in Toronto.
Sound Transit has kicked off early scoping work on the plan to bring a regional light rail extension to downtown Everett, with two virtual public meetings scheduled this month.
Texas Central, the company planning to build a high-speed rail line between Dallas and Houston, is hoping to obtain a Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing (RRIF) loan of $12 billion.
Mike Wongkaew, Ph.D., PE, SE, PMP, has been named HNTB Corporation’s national tunnel practice lead-West region.
Metrorail customers saw improved service Monday morning (Nov. 1), including the extension of Silver Line service, as a result of around-the-clock efforts by rail maintenance teams to get more trains into service.
After months of taking a beating from the Surface Transportation Board on it’s proposed merger with Kansas City Southern, along with a salvo of criticism and expression of interest in achieving a controlling interest in the railroad by TCI, a hedge fund based in the United Kingdom, Canadian National’s board of directors fired back today with a strongly-worded letter to shareholders and the investment community.
Trinity Metro President and CEO Bob Baulsir, who has led the agency since April 2019, is retiring as of Oct. 31, 2021 because of ongoing health issues.
Metrorail in Washington, D.C. will continue with significantly reduced service next week.
Federal and local leaders are pleased to see the $158 million Capital Investment Grant (CIG) for Valley Metro’s Northwest Light Rail Extension Phase II (NWE II) advance to Congress for review.
Long Island Rail Road crews will perform switch work near Queens Village as part of the Main Line Expansion Project during the weekends of Oct. 23-24 and 30-31, and crews will use the track outage to put steel girders in place as part of the MTA’s Long Island Rail Road Elmont station project on Sunday, Oct. 24.
CN announced on October 19 that Jean-Jacques (JJ) Ruest will retire as president and chief executive officer and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Company, effective as of the end of January 2022, or such later time as a successor has been appointed to ensure a flawless transition.
Last month, RT&S reported that TTC would require COVID-19 vaccinations for its employees.
Last week, RT&S reported on a WMATA derailment on the Blue Line. The suspected cause of the derailment is a failure of wheel assembly alignment.
Union Pacific has joined the ranks of companies, including railroads, to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for its employees.