SAN CARLOS, Calif. – Caltrain’s Board of Directors on June 2 approved its Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) and Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25) operating and capital budgets at the rail agency’s monthly board meeting.
JACKSONVILLE – At first glance, CSX’s autonomous track assessment cars (ATACs) look much like a regular boxcars. In reality, however, ATACs carry advanced sensing and communications technology to detect track defects and send information automatically to the company’s Engineering database.
SAN FRANCISCO – SFMTA’s transit service includes different types of vehicles, including regular buses, cable cars, and electric trolleys and buses that utilize overhead wires. Maintaining the overhead electric wires, an important part of the SFMTA infrastructure, and sometimes referred to as “tracks in the sky,” is a significant focus of the agency’s work.
LONG ISLAND – The Metropolitan Transportation Authority released a report detailing LIRR’s excessive work hours and the risk of worker fatigue.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – The Illinois Commerce Commission has approved safety upgrades for Highway-Rail Crossing Projects.
EDMONTON, Can. – One of Edmonton’s five original Capital Line LRT System Stations, The Stadium Station underwent redevelopment work after four decades of service.
The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) on June 5 reported that 63 projects will share more than $570 million in Railroad Crossing Elimination Grant Program funding to address safety at 400-plus at-grade crossings nationwide. The awards for
NEW YORK – Is electrification—or re-electrification—a viable means of rail propulsion, particularly for North American freight rail? In this first of a two-part series, Jim Hoecker and Steve Griffith of the Rail Electrification
HONOLULU – The first segment of Skyline, HART’s future rail system, will be given to the city on Friday, June 9th.
AUCKLAND, NZ – WSP releases Q&A on seismic-resilient tunnel engineering and development of future design techniques.
FEDERAL WAY, Wash. – Sound Transit’s Link light rail service project in Federal Way, Washington is delayed until 2026.
AUSTIN – The city of Austin voted to approve Austin Transit Partnership’s pick for Project Connect.
CHICAGO – CTA will begin building four new, fully accessible stations at Lawrence, Argyle, Berwyn and Bryn Mawr that replace century-old stations; CTA to also begin rebuilding southbound Red, Purple tracks.
WASHINGTON – The National Transportation Safety Board yesterday released its preliminary report on a Norfolk Southern train derailment that occurred in New Castle, Pa. on May 10, 2023. [1]
BROOKLYN – A major subway accessibility improvement project at the Livonia Avenue Station on the Canarsie Line in Brooklyn, NY has been named 2022 Project of the Year in the $10 – $60 million category by the Construction Management Association of America (CMAA) Metro New York/New Jersey Chapter.
FORT WORTH – Trinity Metro TEXRail celebrated 2 million rides over the Memorial Day weekend, marking an ongoing trend in ridership growth. In honor of the occasion, agency employees rode the trains to visit with passengers about TEXRail and to offer colorful commemorative t-shirts for riders.
LONG ISLAND – LIRR ridership sets a post-pandemic record.
WASHOUGAL, Wash. – City in Washington to receive multi-million dollar grant for rail crossing.
CHARLESTON, W. Va. – Senator Joe Manchin has announced that the DOT’s Railroad Crossing Elimination Program has given $576,000 to study grade crossings as part of rail safety.
RICHMOND, BC – TransLink announces construction between Bridgeport Station and Richmond-Brighouse Station on the Canada Line.
