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Watch: First trip of Toronto’s Crosstown line underground; station construction progress
Toronto’s Eglinton Crosstown light-rail project is moving along swiftly. After the tunnel boring machines came back up to the surface and were removed, Metrolinx, an agency created to improve the coordination and
Is an immersed tube the answer to Seattle’s bridge problem?
Railway Track & Structures magazine recently ran a web story on Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan and her plea for Sound Transit to help build a bridge across the Duwamish Waterway. The current
Is Ottawa’s Trillium Line the most efficient single-track line in North America? One expert seems to think so
The new light rail line in the city of Ottawa, Canada, has finally been put on the map the way officials had hoped. For months the rail line has been criticized for
Ottawa Councillors say new Confederation Line is falling apart
Unhappy with the performance of Ottawa’s Confederation Line, Councillors have submitted a seething letter to Ontario’s Ombudsman demanding for an investigation.
Teamsters Canada Rail Conference & Transportation Safety Board investigator call for new investigation into CP derailment
Following up on a story we posted yesterday about families of those killed in the Kicking Horse River CP derailment and crash on Feb. 4, 2019 near Field, B.C., the Teamsters Canada
NYC Comptroller attacks Bombardier, MTA
According to news reports from from local media, an audit by New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer takes issue with Bombardier Transportation’s long-delayed contract with the New York MTA for 300 new
Railroads miss opportunity with 60 Minutes segment on PTC
“HOW SAFE ARE AMERICA’S RAILROADS? Lesley Stahl reports on a recent string of crashes on U.S. railroads and the delay in implementing life-saving technology that could have prevented them.” Oh brother. I
Various cost-effective maintenance practices for conventional track structures
Use determines a given maintenance strategy, but planning determines that strategy’s cost effectiveness.
Feds may fund study of Texas/New Mexico commuter rail route
It has to start with small
steps by city leaders in Las Cruces and El Paso, but the goal is to someday
provide commuter rail service between the cities, the Sun-News reports. Officials
met the week of July 19 with representatives of BNSF and Las Cruces Mayor Ken
Miyagishima came away with two definite opinions: The cost to start commuter
rail service won’t come cheap and he’s excited the service has the potential to
become a reality.
Herbicide vital to Alaska Railroad safety
(The following column was
written by Tom Brooks, the Alaska Railroad’s chief engineer, and appeared in
the Anchorage, Alaska, Daily News.) Inspectors from the Federal Railroad
Administration–the regulatory agency with safety-related authority over all
U.S. railroads–were back in Alaska earlier this summer. Among other things,
FRA inspectors require the Alaska Railroad Corporation to improve weed control.
Norfolk Southern goes social on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr
Norfolk Southern
Corporation has expanded its communications with online audiences, distributing
information, video and photos on popular social media Web sites. News media,
customers, shareholders, bloggers, and other opinion leaders now can keep up to
date on Norfolk Southern news and information through Facebook, Twitter,
YouTube, and Flickr.
Norfolk Southern’s Greencastle project on track
Norfolk Southern will break
ground on its Greencastle, Pa., intermodal rail facility this summer despite
news coming from Capitol Hill, a spokesman said, the Herald-Mail reports. The
mix of proposed legislation and funding denials that is troubling company
executives and local legislators has yet to slow the Greencastle project, said
Rudy Husband, director of public relations for Norfolk Southern.
Railroad ordered to remove old ties
Hundreds – perhaps
thousands – of old creosote-soaked railroad ties dumped along a 30-mile stretch
of the Deschutes River may be removed in coming months thanks to persistent
cage-rattling by Eugene, Ore., businessman and clean-water enthusiast John
Brown, The Eugene Register-Guard reports.
New Lenox, Ill., seeks agreement with CN
New Lenox, Ill., Mayor
Tim Baldermann is "confident" that he soon will be talking to
Canadian National Railway officials before the village’s battle against the
company reaches the courts, the Southtown Star reports.
Don’t judge rail report by its partisan cover
When it comes to
attention-grabbing covers, the title "Great Rail Disasters" with an
illustration of a train wreck is tough to beat for creating a sense of danger
and drama, Ted Jackovics wrote in the Tampa, Fla., Tribune website. Inside, the
44-page American Dream Coalition report focuses on "foolish
investments" and "pork barrel spending" in a critique of rail as
a passenger transportation alternative.
More details, concerns emerge on NS Memphis project
Norfolk Southern has
unveiled preliminary environmental data that will serve as the foundation of
its proposed intermodal terminal in Fayette County, where cargo containers will
be transferred between trucks and trains, The Daily News reports.
Council members concerned about NS construction
Front Royal, Va.,
Councilman N. Shae Parker verbally blasted representatives of Norfolk Southern over
the firm’s proposal that will involve the use of explosives for a construction
project, according to local newspapers. The railroad is offering to pay Front Royal $160,000 in exchange for
vacation of a portion of Depot Avenue and the acquisition of a temporary
construction easement on a 100-foot wide strip of town property.