June 28, 2022 | Amtrak, Derailment, Fatality, Headlines
(Source: Railway Age, June 28, 2022) NEW YORK — Amtrak’s Southwest Chief train 4 traveling eastbound from Los Angeles to Chicago on June 27 derailed after striking a dump truck obstructing a public highway/rail grade crossing in Missouri. Three people have died as a...
June 28, 2022 | Amtrak, Commuter Rail, Headlines, NS
(Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 27, 2022) PITTSBURGH, Pa. — The state announced Monday that a deal had been reached to expand passenger access to railroads in Western Pennsylvania and add a second daily route between Pittsburgh and Harrisburg. The agreement...
June 23, 2022 | Amtrak, Headlines
(Source: Amtrak press release, June 23, 2022) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Another 50 locomotives — made in the U.S. and cleaner, faster, and more fuel efficient than predecessors — have been ordered by Amtrak from Siemens Mobility, which worked with Amtrak to design this...
June 17, 2022 | Amtrak, CSX, Headlines, NS, STB
(Source: Railway Age, June 14, 2022) NEW YORK — Many have been waiting for the ongoing battle at the Surface Transportation Board (STB) between Amtrak on one side and CSX, Norfolk Southern and the Port of Mobile on the other (Docket No. FD-36496) to resume on Monday,...
June 15, 2022 | Amtrak, CSX, Headlines, NS, STB
(Source: Progressive Railroading, June 13, 2022) The Surface Transportation Board late last week ordered board-sponsored meditation in the case involving Amtrak’s application to relaunch passenger-rail service on CSX and Norfolk Southern Railway tracks in the...
June 9, 2022 | Amtrak, Headlines, Operation Lifesaver
(Source: Operation Lifesaver press release, June 8, 2022) DENVER, Colo. — Rail safety education is a necessity in Colorado and throughout the nation. Every 3 hours in the U.S., a person or vehicle is hit by a train. In Colorado each year, approximately 34 people are...
June 8, 2022 | Amtrak, Derailment, Headlines
(Source: Railway Age, June 7, 2022) NEW YORK — A settlement has been reached more than four years after Amtrak Cascades train 501, on its inaugural Point Defiance Bypass run, derailed in DuPont, Wash., as it entered a 30-mph curve at approximately 79 mph. Full story:...
June 1, 2022 | Amtrak, CSX, Headlines, NS, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine, June 1, 2022) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amtrak’s continuing effort to gain access to data relating to freight traffic on the route of its proposed Gulf Coast passenger service has drawn strong protest from CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern....
June 1, 2022 | Amtrak, CN, Headlines
(Source: Trains Magazine, May 31, 2022) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amtrak is proposing that, in extreme examples of routes with poor on-time performance, it would be allowed to take over dispatching from host railroad Canadian National as part of a new operating agreement...
May 31, 2022 | Amtrak, CSX, Headlines, NS, STB
(Source: Railway Age, May 27, 2022) NEW YORK — The slugfest between Amtrak on one side and CSX, NS, and the Port of Mobile on the other, has been long. It has lasted for ten full days plus an afternoon so far, and reached its originally scheduled conclusion on...
