June 27, 2019 | Amtrak, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, June 26, 2019) PHILADELPHIA — SEPTA has paid Amtrak a dollar a year for the last 32 years to use land along the East Coast’s busiest railroad tracks, which also double as routes for three Regional Rail lines. Now Amtrak wants to raise...
June 26, 2019 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Railway Age, June 25, 2019) NEW YORK — Virgin Trains USA (formerly Brightline) recently broke ground on 170 miles of new track in the intermodal facility located in the South Terminal at the Orlando International Airport as part of the company’s Phase 2...
June 25, 2019 | Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: NorthJersey.com, June 24, 2019) BERGEN COUNTY, N.J. — Commuters had to deal with more delays in and out of Penn Station for a brief time Monday morning after a slew of problems in the past few weeks. Beth Toll, a spokeswoman with Amtrak, said a cracked joint...
June 21, 2019 | Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: Hudson Reporter, June 20, 2019) TRENTON, N.J. — NJ Transit is rolling out a resilience program which aims to provide reliable power to portions of Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor, NJ Transit’s Morris and Essex Line, and the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail. The program...
June 21, 2019 | Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: Television station WABC 7, June 20, 2019) NEW YORK — The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey on Thursday unveiled its “PATH Improvement Plan,” which the agency says will dramatically increase capacity while also reducing delays. Full story:...
June 20, 2019 | Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: The Courier, June 20, 2019) WATERLOO, Iowa — Butler County is eager to welcome a new rail car maintenance service rolling into town this summer. In tow will be more than 250 jobs and a planned capital investment of $60 million into the community. The rail car...
June 20, 2019 | Amtrak, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: CNBC, June 19, 2019) NEW YORK — Transit authorities have restored power to the New Jersey rail system, allowing travel in and out of New York’s Penn Station following trouble with Amtrak’s overhead wires that halted all service Wednesday morning, according to...
June 19, 2019 | Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: Trains Magazine, June 17, 2019) PITTSBURG, Calif. — Bombardier Transportation announced Friday it would open a new railcar assembly plant in Pittsburg, with new Bay Area Rapid Transit cars to be the first equipment built at the site. Full story: Trains...
June 19, 2019 | Amtrak, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: Railway Age opinion column by Frank N. Wilner, June 18, 2019) NEW YORK — Here we go again with Amtrak. While complaining that host freight railroads unreasonably impair its legal right to passenger-train priority handling, Amtrak is employing thug-like...
June 19, 2019 | Commuter Rail, FRA, Headlines
(Source: Progressive Railroading, June 17, 2019) The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) last week published a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) in response to petitions seeking reconsideration of a final rule regarding intercity- and commuter-rail systems’...
