August 11, 2022 | Amtrak, CSX, Headlines, NS, STB
(Source: Freight Waves, August 10, 2022) Deliberations at the Surface Transportation Board over whether Amtrak should be allowed to reestablish Gulf Coast service between Mobile, Alabama, and New Orleans are still ongoing, and all the parties appear to be holding fast...
August 8, 2022 | Amtrak, COVID, Headlines
(Source: Politico, August 8, 2022) Two years ago, Amtrak was facing a “near-death” experience, Stephen Gardner, CEO of the national passenger rail service, said at a briefing last week with the Association for a Better New York. Both business and travel leisure...
August 3, 2022 | Amtrak, Canada, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: Railway Age, August 2, 2022) Amtrak construction crews begin work to reactivate five Gulf Coast stations, with a groundbreaking event in Bay St. Louis, Miss. Also, NJ Transit and federal and state officials break ground on new Portal North Bridge, and...
August 2, 2022 | Amtrak, CSX, Headlines, NS, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine, July 29, 2022) The launch of Amtrak Gulf Coast service without infrastructure improvements would cause “immediate and future impairment to freight service that is unreasonable under any definition,” CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern...
August 2, 2022 | Amtrak, CSX, Headlines, NS, STB
(Source: Progressive Railroading, August 1, 2022) Amtrak late last week filed with the Surface Transportation Board a supplemental brief and evidence in the railroad’s quest to relaunch passenger-rail service along the Gulf Coast. In its latest filing with the STB,...
July 29, 2022 | Amtrak, CN, Headlines, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine, July 28, 2022) Canadian National calls an Amtrak proposal that would give it dispatching control over CN lines with poor passenger performance “an outrageously self-serving recipe” that would “cause profound harm to freight railroads, freight...
July 22, 2022 | Amtrak, BNSF, Derailment, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: CNN, July 21, 2022) The deadly collision last month between an Amtrak train with 282 people on board and a fully loaded dump truck in Missouri caused $4 million in damage, the National Transportation Safety Board announced Thursday. An NTSB preliminary...
July 21, 2022 | Amtrak, BNSF, Headlines, Operation Lifesaver
(Source: Topeka Capital-Journal, July 18, 2022) TOPEKA, Kan. — Crossing railway tracks is a daily fact of life in most Kansas communities. The industry is a key part of the state’s history and lore, from its status as the terminus of the Chisholm Trail and a...
July 20, 2022 | Amtrak, BNSF, Headlines
(Source: Trains Magazine, July 18, 2022) OAKLAND, Calif. — Three people were injured after an Amtrak Capitol Corridor train hit on-track maintenance equipment late Friday morning, disrupting rail service for several hours. Full story: Trains...
July 20, 2022 | Amtrak, CP-KCS Merger, Headlines, STB
(Source: Railway Age, July 14, 2022) NEW YORK — Amtrak is calling on the Surface Transportation Board (STB) to deny CN’s conditions to the Canadian Pacific-Kansas City Southern merger because they do “not satisfy the Board’s ‘operationally feasible’ requirement” and...
