BALTIMORE – The MDOT MTA released its Purple Line newsletter for October 2025. It includes construction updates, a business spotlight, and a message from Purple Line Senior Project Director Ray Biggs, II.
NEWARK, N.J. – NJ Transit begins fall maintenance with two AquaTrack machines.
TORONTO – Infrastructure Ontario and Metrolinx released a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) for the Yonge North Subway Extension stations, rail and systems package.
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) confirms the large single bore as the preferred tunnel configuration for the BART Silicon Valley Phase II project.
SACRAMENTO – STV, a North American professional services firm that specializes in designing and managing infrastructure projects, has acquired Cypress Construction Management, LLC.
NEW DELHI, India – Sensonic announced it has partnered with Skylark Drones to provide railway infrastructure monitoring technologies.
COLUMBUS, Mont. –– Yesterday, a BNSF conductor was hit and killed by a passing train.
STAMFORD, Conn. – CTDOT will work to rehabilitate an out-of-service railroad switch tower on the Metro North New Haven Line.
Nearly 300 professionals from freight and passenger railroads, industry suppliers and consultants, universities, and research organizations gathered in Pueblo, Colo., earlier this month for the Third Annual TTC Conference & Tour, reported host
FARGO, N.D. – Amtrak has made an estimated $30 million in upgrades at passenger stations in North Dakota.
TORONTO – The Ontario government announced it has begun construction on Caledonia GO Station in Toronto.
FRANKFORT, Ky. –– The State of Kentucky this week issued more than $5.6 million in railway infrastructure grants.
WASHINGTON, D.C.–– The American Chemistry Council is not in favor of the proposed UP+NS merger and sent a letter about it to POTUS 47.
DETROIT, Mich. – Michigan Central is economic and transportation development organization headquartered on the campus of the recently restored Michigan Central Station in Detroit.
WASHINGTON, D.C. –– POTUS 47 yesterday said that the project to build the New York/New Jersey Gateway Tunnel under the Hudson River has been “terminated.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. –– National Mediation Board member Deirdre E. Hamilton, a Democrat, was fired Oct. 14 by POTUS 47, making her one of many legally questionable independent regulatory agency terminations by the POTUS. Hamilton’s departure leaves the three-member NMB with one Republican (Chairperson Loren E. Sweatt) and one Democrat (Linda Puchala).
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.: Railway Age’s annual Women in Rail Conference has concluded its first day. At the Awards Luncheon Sponsored by CN, we recognized the outstanding honorees of Railway Age’s 2024 Women in Rail and RT&S’s 2025 Women in Railroad Engineering award programs.
CLINTON, Iowa––The Iowa Transportation Commission, through its Railroad Revolving Loan & Grant Program, has awarded $3.3 million to four rail infrastructure and related rail development projects. According to the Commission, the projects are expected to enable the creation and retention of 201 jobs within three years of project completion.
LOS ANGELES –– The ongoing saga of geologic instability along the Lossan Corridor continues with a line shutdown for the weekend of October 25-26.
The Railway & Locomotive Historical Society has awarded a record eight scholarships in 2025. Each award is worth $4,000, up from $3,000 in all five previous years, for a total of $32,000. Several of the recipients have participated in internships with Class I railroads—two with Norfolk Southern and one each with Union Pacific and CSX Transportation.