LAST WEEK to nominate for Top Projects

The deadline to nominate your top project in North America for the 2022 RT&S Top Projects list is May 7.

Bells & Whistles—A double-decker punch?

The top news stories RT&S was following the week ending April 29.

LAX people mover superstructure now complete

Balfour Beatty, part of the LINXS Constructors joint venture, has successfully completed the Los Angeles International Airport’s (LAX) 2.25-mile Automated People Mover (APM) train guideway superstructure (APM) for Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA).

Palo Alto, Calif., still waiting on decisions, funding for grade crossing projects

This is one separation Palo Alto, Calif., wanted no part of, and it deals with funding.

Watch: Project Connect’s Blue Line has two options, and one would demand a lot more money

Austin, Texas, residents have two options for the Project Connect Blue Line: expensive or not so expensive.

O-Train Extension is moving along at an A-OK pace

Ottawa’s O-Train East Extension project got the political ovation treatment on April 26.

BART extension project into San Jose now facing $1.6B funding gap

The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority wants the one thing that has never been done before in the U.S. to be, well, done. However, it is not a done deal.

Oregon port prepares for the future, replaces key rail bridge

There is plenty of rail maintenance and construction activity going on at the International Port of Coos Bay in Oregon, and an important phase was recently completed.

REMSA introduces its 2022 Innovation Award

The Railway Engineering-Maintenance Suppliers Association (REMSA) has announced a new award program to recognize organizational achievement by a REMSA member.

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Watch: Wildfire takes out railroad bridge in Texas

The Little Highline Fire in Potter County, Texas, destroyed a railroad bridge over the weekend.

Options for new I-5 bridge now call for light rail, which killed the project in 2013

Portland light rail was the reason why plans for a new I-5 bridge connecting the state of Washington and Oregon failed years ago.

BNSF, FRA automated track inspection dispute in federal court

This piece by Railway Age Editor-in-Chief William Vantuono appeared in the magazine’s news feed on Thursday, April 21. This court case addresses a very important issue, so we are reproducing it here. DCL

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Tired of failed grants, officials try to set up new funding formula for rail bridge replacement in Calif.

The collapse of the First Street railroad bridge in San Bernardino County, Calif., would be catastrophic, and just over the last few months two incidents have flirted with that possibility.

Lease of dormant Tennessee Pass Line still very much alive

Plans to revive a dormant rail line between Pueblo, Colo., and Dotsero, Colo., are still alive, but what version it will be is in question.

Go Triangle still pushing passenger line to help move 750,000 more people by 2040

With 750,000 people expected to move to the Triangle in North Carolina over the next 20 years, more needs to be done in terms of movement.

Tunnel boring machines make first cut into Toronto extension project

The tunnel boring machines on the Eglinton Crosstown West Extension project got their first taste of work on April 11.

Nominations now open for RT&S Women in Railroad Engineering list

Nominations are now open for RT&S’s 2022 Women in Railroad Engineering list.

Tenn. flood victims sue CSX, property owners over fatal tidal wave

CSX is facing a lawsuit connected to the Waverly, Tenn., floods last August.

RT&S April issue is now online

The April issue of RT&S features the magazine’s 10 under 40 list recognizing the top young talent in the Maintenance-of-Way industry.

Mayor: Plans for high-speed rail west to Tampa need to move quicker

One official is saying if Florida wants a high-speed rail line from Orlando to Tampa it may need to take on the process a little faster.

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