January 30, 2019 | Amtrak, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: Chicago Sun-Times, January 30, 2019) CHICAGO — Most Amtrak trains to and from Chicago are canceled and Metra will modify the schedule of most of its lines Wednesday and Thursday due to the expected extreme cold weather. Full story: Chicago...
January 29, 2019 | Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: Curbed Philadelphia, January 28, 2019) PHILADELPHIA — The billion-dollar King of Prussia (KOP) rail project took a major step forward last week, when SEPTA awarded the design contract for the project’s first phase to a construction engineering company. Full...
January 29, 2019 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, Positive Train Control
(Source: Kent Reporter, January 28, 2019) KENT, Wash. — Sound Transit has completed implementation and certification of Positive Train Control (PTC) on all Sounder commuter rail vehicles that run between Lakewood and Everett. Full story: Kent...
January 29, 2019 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, Positive Train Control
(Source: Progressive Railroading, January 28, 2019) New Jersey Transit late last week announced plans to begin restoring rail service that has been subject to temporary service adjustments — including shuttle buses instead of trains — in the second quarter, beginning...
January 29, 2019 | Amtrak, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: Reuters, January 29, 2019) NEW YORK — New Jersey’s top state and federal officials, including Governor Phil Murphy and U.S. Senators Cory Booker and Bob Menendez, toured the deteriorating century-old rail tunnel beneath the Hudson River on Monday in an...
January 24, 2019 | Amtrak, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: WNYC, January 23, 2019) NEW YORK — A year-long stalemate between Amtrak and the MTA over expanding Metro-North service in the East Bronx has ended. Amtrak agreed to drop its demands after New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo stepped in to broker a deal, according to...
January 24, 2019 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, Railroad Security
(Source: Progressive Railroading, January 23, 2019) Four Democratic senators representing the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s (WMATA) service area are calling on the agency to mitigate cybersecurity risks as it seeks to procure new 8000-series...
January 23, 2019 | Amtrak, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: Albany Times Union, January 22, 2019) ALBANY, N.Y. — Some Metro-North commuter trains serving the New Haven line could arrive at Penn Station instead of Grand Central, under an agreement between the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Amtrak and the Empire...
January 22, 2019 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Freight Waves, January 21, 2019) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Commuters in the Pacific Northwest love to complain about how slow (and archaic) it is to travel between Portland and Seattle by train. It takes about three and a half hours to traverse the 170-mile...
January 22, 2019 | Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: www.nj.com, January 22, 2019) NEWARK, N.J. — Gov. Phil Murphy has pledged that service on the Atlantic City Rail Line which has been shut down since September will resume. But he and NJ Transit officials can’t say when that will happen because of the ongoing...
