BART continues to work on traction power cable replacement
BART crews will be working in southern Alameda County to replace 34.5 kV (kilovolt) traction power cables that provide electricity for trains.
BART crews will be working in southern Alameda County to replace 34.5 kV (kilovolt) traction power cables that provide electricity for trains.
On September 15, 2021, the Ohio Rail Development Commission (ORDC) approved grant funding to Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway (WLE) in the amount of $125,000 to improve the clearance of a railroad bridge over a state route in Tuscarawas County.
SNC Lavalin has been awarded a mandate to look at the possibility of a northern railway in Quebec.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) announced that Siu Ling Ko has assumed the role of Vice President and Chief Mechanical Officer of Subway Car Equipment, the division of New York City Transit responsible for maintaining and overhauling the agency’s fleet of subway cars and track maintenance vehicles.
Indiana Rail Road is expanding its intermodal capacity.
Metro-North is back in operation on the Hudson Line after Hurricane Ida.
Metrolink has undertaken emergency track work in south Orange County through Oct. 4.
The Gold Line extension in California was paired with the wrong partner, so Washington was called in to see if more officials could work together to get it done.
A Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) report says vandalism may have caused the derailment of a BNSF train in Custer, Wash., back in December. The FRA, however, has not cleared BNSF of any wrongdoing.
Construction of a pedestrian bridge at 43rd Street in Chicago will shut down a portion of the Metra Electric Line this weekend, Sept. 18-19, requiring some late night and early morning Metra and South Shore trains to be canceled or replaced with free CTA shuttles between the 51st Street and Millennium stations.
Called “A Better Red,” Portland’s TriMet is getting ready to make better use out of plans to extend the Red Line that have been in the works for years.
Richard J. Leary, CEO of the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) announced last week that employee vaccinations will be required of employees.
BART has announced additional work and maintenance on the railroad.
Doug Allen will now lead HNTB’s Southeast Division, based in Atlanta.
The scope of our coverage does not go beyond North America, but I found something the other day that I could not help but share … so consider this the exception.
The U.S. District Court in Seattle convicted a woman on Sept. 9 who used shunts on BNSF railroad tracks near Bellingham, Wash.
After a year, it appears that the Maryland Purple Line project will finally have a new contractor lined up in early 2022.
The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has published a Safety Advisory on a Positive Train Control (PTC) issue recently identified during testing of ACSES II (Advanced Civil Speed Enforcement System II) and I-ETMS (Interoperable Electronic Train Management System) technology.
Long Island Rail Road crews will be working on the railroad over the next two weekends.
There’s no denying it. The decision to cancel the NRC’s annual conference in 2021 was painful.