Railway Track & Structures 2025 Top Projects
ATLANTA – The annual Top Projects awards for 2025 have been selected and featured in the June 2025 issue of Railway Track & Structures.
South Shore Line
NICTD Eyeing Late August/Early September Opening Date for West Lake Corridor Project
SOUTH BEND, Ind. – The Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District seeks to open its branch to Dyer sometime in later summer to early fall.
Metra Outlines 2025 Construction Program
CHICAGO, Ill. – Metra on March 18 detailed its program for the 2025 construction season, covering station, track, road crossing, bridge, and signal/communications improvement projects along the Chicagoland commuter railroad’s 11 lines totaling
NICTD Approves Agreement for Shorter Route to South Bend Intl. Airport
SOUTH BEND, Ind. – The South Shore Line secured a shorter route into South Bend International Airport after the Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District (NICTD) and the airport authority finalized a agreement.
NICTD Focuses on South Shore Line Service in 2024
INDIANAPOLIS – Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District is focusing on the projects along its South Shore Line service this year.
South Shore Line Testing in Indiana
CHESTERTON, Ind. – The South Shore Line in northern Indiana has been testing trains at a lowered speed and “expects to return commercial train travel to a 14-mile stretch of track.”
Bells & Whistles—LaGuardia had a new transit line, but now it does not
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South Shore Line eastbound Train 203 temporarily canceled Tuesday-Friday due to track work
Effective immediately, eastbound Train 203, departing Millennium Station at 6:10a and arriving at Gary Metro Center at 7:07a, will be canceled Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of each week through early April 2021.
Indiana’s South Shore Line receives FTA approval on second rail project
Indiana’s South Shore Line is going to have a new addition. The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) now has the line’s double track project in final engineering phase, which essentially means it has
West Lake Corridor, KC Streetcar extensions get green lights from FTA
Two rail extension projects in the Midwest picked up “medium-high” ratings from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) — a designation that makes it likely the federal government will provide funding for construction