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.
While MARTA has not joined the ranks of those companies requiring all employees to be vaccinated, the agency now requires weekly testing.
Progress continues on the Mayan Train project in Mexico as the first shipment of ballast arrived over the weekend.
It takes a milestone whenever you are dealing with the mighty Mississippi River, and the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis and contractor Walsh Construction hit one over the weekend.
Indiana Rail Road is expanding its intermodal capacity.
Railway Track & Structures Editor-in-Chief Bill Wilson covers the top news stories of the week.
When a new crossing emerges to connect the states of Washington and Oregon via I-5, there will not be any sight of high-speed rail.
GO Transit expansion will enable Metrolinx to restore an historic rail bridge.
Metro-North is back in operation on the Hudson Line after Hurricane Ida.
Over $312 million has been approved for the Project Connect venture in Austin, Texas.
Officials behind the Maryland’s Purple Line project are going to take even longer to have a new design-build contractor in the dirt.
Metrolink has undertaken emergency track work in south Orange County through Oct. 4.
BNSF will be working on the railroad this weekend.
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.
Metrolinx has two projects going on the Lakeshore East Rail Corridor in Toronto.
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.
The 100-year-old Cobb Street railroad bridge in Lula, Ga., keeps on slipping in and out of consciousness … or in this case serviceability.
Richard J. Leary, CEO of the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) announced last week that employee vaccinations will be required of employees.
