June 14, 2018 | Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: Associated Press, June 13, 2018) CHICAGO — Metra says it will no longer sell Monthly Passes and 10-Ride Tickets from certain vending machines after seeing a spike in purchases made with stolen credit cards. Full story: Miami Herald
June 14, 2018 | Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: www.masslive.com, June 13, 2018) SPRINGFIELD — People passing through Union Station earlier this week had plans to travel, whether on a PVTA bus across town or a series of Amtrak trains across the country to Washington state. But few had ever heard of, and...
June 14, 2018 | BNSF, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: Daily Herald, June 13, 2018) CHICAGO — Metra’s rollout of a new BNSF Line schedule let down riders, one Metra director said Wednesday as complaints about crammed BNSF Line trains surged and administrators acknowledged it could take several weeks to get...
June 14, 2018 | Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: www.nj.com, June 13, 2018) NEWARK, N.J. — New Jersey is sending the money train to the rescue of rail riders who repeatedly get stranded when a 108-year-old swing bridge gets stuck on the busy Northeast Corridor Line. Full story:...
June 14, 2018 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, Positive Train Control
(Source: www.northjersey.com, June 13, 2018) BERGEN COUNTY, N.J. — Positive train control installation is causing delays on PATH while there is a late train on the North Jersey Coast Line. Full story: www.northjersey.com
June 13, 2018 | BNSF, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: Daily Herald, June 12, 2018) CHICAGO — Two days into its revised schedules on the BNSF Line, Metra is asking passengers to be patient about crammed trains. Full story: Daily Herald
June 12, 2018 | Commuter Rail, DOT, Headlines
(Source: Meriden Record-Journal, June 11, 2018) WALLINGFORD, Conn. — The state Department of Transportation has begun running “test trains” in preparation of the new Hartford Line rail service, scheduled to begin Saturday. Full story:...
June 11, 2018 | Amtrak, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: Railway Age opinion column by J. Bruce Richardson, June 8, 2018) NEW YORK — Almost 20 years ago, there was a good solution which Amtrak experimented with to make its dining cars on long distance trains perform better financially: It was the 24-hour dining car...
June 7, 2018 | Amtrak, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: Laredo Morning Times, June 7, 2018) HARTFORD, Conn. — Recent track improvements have allowed an Amtrak train to reach a top speed of 110 mph on the Hartford Line corridor. The state Department of Transportation says the speed test runs were part of the final...
June 6, 2018 | Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: NBC New York, June 4, 2018) NEW YORK — The commute for thousands of NJ Transit train riders will face a dramatic change in rail schedules that includes temporarily discontinuing trains or changes in origin and destination stations. In order to accommodate the...
