OTTAWA, Ontario — The Canadian government has announced more than Ca$4.5 million in funding for 12 projects under the Rail Safety Improvement Program. The education and awareness projects aim to ...
Amtrak’s first Siemens Airo trainset for Cascades service tests on the Keystone Corridor between Philadelphia and Harrisburg on April 9, 2026. Amtrak has scheduled public viewings of the new equipment ...
Union Pacific SD70AH No. 8898 and two Norfolk Southern Dash 9-44CW locomotives lead an eastbound manifest freight into Elmhurst, Ill., on July 7, 2026. The Surface Transportation Board has turned down ...
NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy speaks at a Monday, Sept. 21, event at Chicago Union Station to announce new safety recommendations regarding shoving moves during switching. David Lassen CHICAGO — The ...
NOVI, Mich. — CSX is planning to abolish 165 maintenance-of-way positions and furlough more than 1,000 workers, the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division has announced. In a post on its ...
Stadler and Metra will debut the first of Metra’s new battery-electric FLIRT trainsets on Oct. 5 in Chicago. Stadler CHICAGO — Metra and Stadler will unveil the first of Metra’s battery-electric ...
Visitors check out equipment on display at InnoTrans 2026. At left is a new Alstom Intercity EMU built for Italy; at right is CRRC’s Vellink subway train. Keith Fender BERLIN — InnoTrans, the largest ...
With added dramatic lighting for a photo session, former Union Pacific 2-10-2 No. 5511 sits in the Railroading Heritage of Midwest America backshop at Silvis, Ill. On its return to operation, the ...
WASHINGTON — The North American Rail Shippers Association will hold its annual meeting in Washington, D.C., for the first time. The meeting is set for Nov. 11-13, with the theme of “Navigating Change ...
Resident Carmine Giso makes a point during a Sept. 17 meeting on Amtrak’s proposed Chicago maintenance facility, eliciting a positive reaction from project opponents. Bob Johnston CHICAGO — Amtrak’s ...
MONTREAL — Canadian high-speed rail company Alto has acquired the first piece of land for its proposed Toronto-Quebec City route.… OTTAWA, Ontario — A group opposed to Canada’s Alto high-speed rail ...
A New York Central J-3 Hudson gallops east at Camelot, N.Y., with train 38, the Missourian, in June 1940. The New York Central was a large railroad, and it had several subsidiaries whose identity ...