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Government awards $1 million grant for central Pa. rail study
LANCASTER, Pa. -- The federal government has awarded $1 million for a preliminary engineering study for a long-range, multi-million dollar commuter rail system linking Lancaster, Cumberland and Dauphin counties, the Lancaster New Era reported. Officials from the...
NJT chief says it’s too late to kill light rail project
PHILADELPHIA -- New Jersey's commissioner of transportation said yesterday that the controversial South Jersey light-rail line exists only because scrapping it would be too expensive, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. Speaking to reporters at a special legislative...
Opinion: NS and business ethics
(The following editorial was written by Jim Spencer and published in the September 25 issue of the Daily Press in Newport News, Va.) NEWPORT NEWS, Va. -- I love it when guys making 800 grand a year start talking about business ethics. That happened last week at Old...
FRA gives $2.07 million RRIF loan to Mount Hood Railroad
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Federal Railroad Administrator Allan Rutter announced on September 25 the award of a $2.07 million Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing (RRIF) loan to Mount Hood Railroad, a short line railroad based in northwest Oregon. Rep. Jack...
Train wheels jump tracks, tear up street
BROWNSVILLE, Texas -- The wheels of a train temporarily slipped off the railroad track and ripped into the pavement as the train passed in front of the Cameron County Courthouse in Brownsville on Wednesday, the Brownsville Herald reported. Railroad tracks run down the...
Amtrak to leave Vt. stations unmanned for weekends
BURLINGTON, Vt. -- There will be no Amtrak staff at Vermont rail stations beginning this weekend, according to WPTZ-TV in Burlington, Vt. The national passenger railroad has announced it is laying off staff at all four of its ticket stations in the state. Those...
House Republicans want to kill 5 Amtrak lines
CHICAGO -- Five long-distance Amtrak routes that begin in Chicago and lose more than $200 per passenger face possible elimination under a plan that will be considered in Congress Thursday, the Chicago Tribune reported. The Republican-backed proposal to terminate...
Mass. lawmakers seek Amtrak meeting
BOSTON -- The Massachusetts congressional delegation has asked Amtrak CEO David Gunn for a face-to-face meeting to discuss the recent firing of the Amtrak official in charge of running the MBTA's commuter-rail system, as well as to answer questions about Amtrak's...
Work starts on railroad bridge replacement
RALEIGH, N.C. -- A bridge that has spanned the Neuse River near Kinston for nearly a century will be removed and replaced with a new structure that will accommodate today's larger and heavier freight rail cars. North Carolina Railroad Company President Scott Saylor...
Subway strike makes mess in London
LONDON -- According to the Associated Press, a 24-hour subway strike made a mess of Londoners' commute Wednesday, snarling traffic and leaving millions with major transportation headaches for the second time in two months. Members of the Rail Maritime and Transport...
