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 ...
A model of the Stadler locomotive to be built for VIA Rail Canada is on display at InnoTrans in Berlin. Keith Fender BERLIN — VIA Rail Canada made news this summer with orders for 45 hybrid ...
The MBTA has set an Oct. 13 start date for its new program offering free travel for those 75 and older who do not drive. MBTA BOSTON — The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s program to ...
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 ...
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 ...
WASHINGTON — When the Surface Transportation Board on Friday evening shot down requests to summarily dismiss the Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern merger application, the board’s newest member also fired ...
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 ...
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 ...
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A Kankakee, Beaverville & Southern train works in Kankakee, Ill., on April 11, 2022. Pinsly Railroad Co. is acquiring the short line serving Indiana and Illinois. David Lassen WASHINGTON — Pinsly ...
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 ...