In celebration of Labor Day, the California High-Speed Rail Authority (Authority) today announced it has crossed another milestone with 6,000 construction jobs created to date across 119 miles of active construction in the Central Valley.
Advanced Rail Management has been awarded a rail grinding project management contract.
PNR RailWorks installed two large signal bridge structures, spanning nine tracks each, and a cantilever structure on a critical piece of Metrolinx transit network in Toronto.
Here’s another story that’s a little off of our beat, but Simens Mobility battery hybrid streecars are now entering light rail service in Charlotte is an important story.
Gov. Kathy Hochul reacted to her first major event after having been in office for a week.
The current tour of Union Pacific’s “Big Boy” locomotive is exciting rail enthusiasts and rail professionals across the country.
The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) District Four and Broward County are performing a PD&E Study for the Broward Commuter Rail (BCR) along the Florida East Coast (FEC) Railway from Aventura in Miami-Dade County to Deerfield Beach in Broward County.
Track replacement and other improvements are on schedule for completion by Aug. 29.
Miller Ingenuity was selected to supply their patent pending ZoneGuard yard protection system for use at Koppers Somerville, Texas plant.
Metro has released a report on progress it has made over the past three years, after it received a significant infusion of dedicated funding.
Union Pacific’s beloved steam locomotive No. 4014 is returning to the rails Aug. 5 for a five-week tour that includes public display events in five major cities, along with brief whistle-stops in more than 90 other communities.
On July 2, a Regional Transportation District (RTD) light rail train encountered low-hanging wires near Dayton Station in Aurora, caused by a failed insulator.
The MBTA trolley system suffered a crash last week.
TekTracking LLC, a railroad asset management technology development company, recently announced that TNW Corporation (TNW), a privately held organization that owns three short line railroads and transportation logistics companies in Texas, has selected TIMPS to manage their track inspection, maintenance, and scheduling activities across all their railroads.
Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. recently announced that it has launched remote track monitoring services with information and communication technology (ICT) in North America for the first time.
HNTB’s Mel Sears, PE, PMP, has been named president of the firm’s Northwest Division, overseeing vital and complex infrastructure programs in growth markets, including highways, rail/transit, tolling and aviation. He is based in the firm’s Bellevue office.
BART managed to leverage pandemic downtime to push forward their rebuilding work.
EllisDon, a construction services and infrastructure development company, announced that they have formed a partnership to advance the development of high-speed rail connecting Edmonton, Red Deer, and Calgary in Alberta, Canada. EllisDon and its team took the initiative to propose the project within the Government of Alberta’s Unsolicited Proposal Guidelines and Framework.
Texas Central makes a major decision to move it’s high-speed project forward.
HDR announced that Wulf Grote, P.E., has joined HDR as a senior transit engineering advisor, bringing over 40 years of experience in public transportation.