Amtrak has built a more disciplined process to plan and coordinate major track outages, but more steps could be taken to reduce service disruptions and maximize the amount of time it has
The Metra Board of Directors today unanimously elected Romayne C. Brown, a public transit veteran who represents Cook County, to be its next chair. “I am honored that my fellow directors have
Ed. Note: Rail traffic was down the week ending 09.12.20, but due to last week’s Labor Day holiday, we only had four days of business instead of five days for the same
Railway Track & Structures’ Editor-in-Chief Bill Wilson talks to William Ibbs, a professor of civil engineering at the University of California at Berkeley, to get a feel for how the QC/QA process
The U.S. DOT has awarded a $20 million Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development (BUILD) grant for the Stockton Diamond Grade Separation Project. It is one of two awards to the state
BNSF’s line through the Columbia River Gorge has just received a new bridge, located where the river meets Drano Lake at the coast of southern Washington, according to The Columbian. The original
Drone footage of a Canadian National train in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley shows railcars tangled and piled on top of each other. Canadian National says 60 cars slipped off the track Sept.
Metro Transit (Minn.) is getting ready to receive the last batch of federal funding for the Green Line extension project. The Federal Transit Administration approved over $928 million in federal money for
BNSF today announced that Executive Vice President Operations, Kathryn M. Farmer, will become President and Chief Executive Officer on Jan. 1, 2021. She will continue her role on and assume leadership of
The fires out west are doing nothing to preserve history. They are destroying everything in their path, including the Manning-Rye Covered Bridge in Whitman County, Wash. The bridge crosses the Palouse River
Track installation along the Eglinton Crosstown light-rail project in Toronto has reached the 66 percent completion mark, while overhead catenary system poles are 95 percent complete. In early September, crews test drove
Three aspiring young railroaders are among the recipients of the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society’s inaugural scholarships, which are named in honor of the R&LHS members who generously made these scholarships possible.
An absent voter wants to be counted. In late August, the Sacramento Regional Transit board rejected a proposal for a rail line over the Tower Bridge. Citrus Heights representative Steve Miller, however,
Just over two weeks after Hurricane Laura hit, the Gulf Coast is bracing for another storm that is expected to become a hurricane today (likely Category 2), and is expected to make
Report shows Washington, D.C., Metrorail lack strong safety culture. Fire destroys nearly 100-year-old railroad bridge. NTSB preliminary report of Union Pacific derailment in Arizona contain more details about accident. Judge says Purple
Earlier this week, RT&S reported the results of an audit of Washington, D.C.’s Metro transit system conducted by the Washington Metrorail Safety Commission. The key message of the report was that Metro,
Balfour Beatty, alongside HS2 Ltd, [earlier this month] celebrated the formal start of construction on Europe’s largest infrastructure project – HS2, the state-of-the-art, high-speed line critical for the UK’s low carbon transport
The following is NTSB’s preliminary report on the Union Pacific derailment that partially collapsed a bridge in Tempe, Ariz. On July 29, 2020, at 6:07 a.m. local time, in Tempe, Ariz., westbound
A Maryland judge has sent the Purple Line Transit Partners packing, saying the concessionaire can leave the Purple Line project due to nearly $800 million in cost overruns because of delays. The
Ed Boyle is a calculated bull in a china shop … with riders on his back. Norfolk Southern’s vice president of engineering sees a target and he charges full speed. He is
