Cybersecurity continues to be a major threat to the integrity and stability of our nation’s railroad network, and the Department of Homeland Security is planning for the future.
RT&S Editor-in-Chief Bill Wilson covers the top news stories of the week.
Metra is working on a key rebuilding and replacement project on the railroad.
A full 24 hours after a derailment of an Amtrak train that killed three passengers near Joplin, Mont., theories were spreading on the cause of the accident.
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.
BNSF is now confirming it will build a second line of tracks in Edmonds, Wash., in 2023.
With backing from the White House and the Transportation Secretary, one would think the Gateway Project is finally ready for takeoff. However, there is another source delaying the countdown.
Two Amtrak employees have allegedly accepted gifts from a construction contractor.
The House created some timely celebratory fireworks right before the July 4 weekend by passing a $760 billion transportation and water bill on July 1.
High-speed rail is headed straight for a deathblow, but federal lawmakers could do something about it Maryland’s money-pit rail tunnel set to be replaced With Senate committee’s latest action, is there a
One of the nation’s worst rail bottlenecks will be uncorked in the coming years.
The money might not be there, but the paperwork is starting to roll in.
New York lawmaker wants Amtrak to repair rail tunnels one way … and it could become law Service in December 2021? HART interim executive hopes section of light-rail line will be ready
Repairing tunnels damaged by Hurricane Sandy would have a ripple effect on other projects in New York.
Amtrak hoping for another $5.4 billion from Congress Single-tracking Purple Line in Montgomery County, Md., will put project at ‘significant risk’ Historic rail bridge in Iowa will be difficult to move, but
Amtrak is hoping President Biden is true to his nickname after the passenger service’s latest budget request.
Safe bets usually do not produce huge returns in Las Vegas, but it might be different in the case of high-speed rail.
Amtrak will celebrate its 50th anniversary on May 1, 2021. For the entire time the agency has been operating, funding has come from annual congressional appropriations that rose and fell based largely on which political party was in power.
Most Americans, regardless of political party, have lamented America’s crumbling infrastructure for nearly two decades.
Today the U.S. Department of Transportation highlights the transportation elements of the historic American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARP).