OTTAWA, Ontario — The Canadian government has announced more than Ca$4.5 million in funding for 12 projects under the Rail Safety Improvement Program. The education and awareness projects aim to ...
The MBTA has set an Oct. 13 start date for its new program offering free travel for those 75 and older who do not drive. MBTA BOSTON — The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s program to ...
With added dramatic lighting for a photo session, former Union Pacific 2-10-2 No. 5511 sits in the Railroading Heritage of Midwest America backshop at Silvis, Ill. On its return to operation, the ...
Visitors check out equipment on display at InnoTrans 2026. At left is a new Alstom Intercity EMU built for Italy; at right is CRRC’s Vellink subway train. Keith Fender BERLIN — InnoTrans, the largest ...
NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy speaks at a Monday, Sept. 21, event at Chicago Union Station to announce new safety recommendations regarding shoving moves during switching. David Lassen CHICAGO — The ...
Resident Carmine Giso makes a point during a Sept. 17 meeting on Amtrak’s proposed Chicago maintenance facility, eliciting a positive reaction from project opponents. Bob Johnston CHICAGO — Amtrak’s ...
Union Pacific SD70AH No. 8898 and two Norfolk Southern Dash 9-44CW locomotives lead an eastbound manifest freight into Elmhurst, Ill., on July 7, 2026. The Surface Transportation Board has turned down ...
Amtrak’s first Siemens Airo trainset for Cascades service tests on the Keystone Corridor between Philadelphia and Harrisburg on April 9, 2026. Amtrak has scheduled public viewings of the new equipment ...
WASHINGTON — Amtrak and Canadian National have reached a new host railroad operating agreement that settles a dispute dating to 2013. The railroads said today that the agreements “strengthen their ...
Two Colorado firms have developed a fire-mitigation system that can prevent wildfires from encroaching onto railroad rights of way. Matrix Wildfire has developed the SENTINEL apparatus that can ...
A westbound Norfolk Southern intermodal train splits the signals at Huntingdon, Pa., in April 2022. BNSF Railway says it will request trackage rights on the former Pennsylvania Railroad main line to ...
Two Union Pacific crew members provide a roll-by inspection for an intermodal train near Wamsutter, Wyo., on Sept. 1, 2022. David Lassen WASHINGTON — A coalition of labor unions has asked the Surface ...