October 11, 2018 | Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: www.nj.com, October 10, 2018) NEWARK, N.J. — More money and less bureaucracy. Those are the recommendations of a $1.3 million audit of NJ Transit being released this morning. Full story: www.nj.com
October 11, 2018 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, Positive Train Control
(Source: Poughkeepsie Journal, October 10, 2018) POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. — Exactly when the Metro-North Railroad will secure an extension for federally mandated life-saving safety technology is still up in the air. Full story: Poughkeepsie Journal
October 10, 2018 | Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: Reuters, October 9, 2018) NEWARK, N.J. — An audit of New Jersey Transit released on Tuesday found that operations at the state’s passenger rail system were “inefficient” and “unsustainable,” and recommended that the state...
October 10, 2018 | Commuter Rail, FRA, Headlines
(Source: Progressive Railroading, October 9, 2018) The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) is in the “final chapters” of completing a final environmental impact statement (EIS) for the proposed replacement of Amtrak’s Hudson River tunnels, FRA...
October 8, 2018 | Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: www.northjersey.com, October 5, 2018) NEW YORK — Thursday evening’s derailment of an NJ Transit train in New York’s Penn Station underscores the deteriorated condition of New Jersey’s statewide public transportation agency and the looming risk of failure of...
October 8, 2018 | Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: Bloomberg, October 5, 2018) NEW YORK — Round-the-clock repairs at Pennsylvania Station were supposed to guarantee smoother New York City train commutes. They haven’t. New Jersey Transit’s Montclair-bound Train 6279 went off the tracks Thursday at 6:20 p.m....
October 8, 2018 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, Positive Train Control
(Source: Progressive Railroading, October 5, 2018) Although many passenger railroads are close to completing equipment installation of positive train control (PTC) systems, less progress has been made on testing those systems, the U.S. Government Accountability Office...
September 25, 2018 | Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: Progressive Railroading, September 24, 2018) The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) will examine the feasibility of providing passenger-rail service between Altoona and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf announced late last week. Full...
September 24, 2018 | Amtrak, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: Minneapolis Star-Tribune, September 23, 2018) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Adding a second daily passenger train between St. Paul’s Union Depot and downtown Chicago, a proposal that has been bandied about for many years, would likely cost from $137 million to...
September 21, 2018 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, UP
(Source: Chicago Tribune, September 20, 2018) CHICAGO — The head of Union Pacific said Thursday that the freight railroad’s plan for operational changes, starting in the Midwest in October, should help reduce freight congestion and benefit both Metra users and...
