January 24, 2022 | Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: Railway Age, January 21, 2022) NEW YORK — The Federal Transportation Administration (FTA) on Jan. 20 announced new ratings for six projects seeking funding from the Capital Investment Grants (CIG) program—one was for the Hudson Tunnel Project and the others...
January 20, 2022 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, NS
(Source: Progressive Railroading, January 17, 2022) The commonwealth of Virginia has finalized a definitive agreement with Norfolk Southern Corp. to expand passenger-rail service to the New River Valley for the first time since 1979, Virginia officials announced last...
January 14, 2022 | Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: South Florida Sun Sentinel, January 11, 2022) PALM BEACH, Fla. — A launch of passenger train travel along Florida’s central coast and on to Orlando becomes one step closer to reality next week when Brightline, the high-speed railroad, starts crew training...
January 13, 2022 | Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: www.nj.com, January 10, 2022) NEWARK, N.J. — A fleet of old Comet III rail cars that NJ Transit sidelined for 13 years in a train yard in Bay Head — and were destroyed by Hurricane Sandy — are about to make their last trip to the scrap yard. Full story:...
January 10, 2022 | Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: Associated Press, January 10, 2022) LOS ANGELES — A pilot who crashed a small plane onto railroad tracks was pulled alive from the wreck by a group of Los Angeles Police officers just moments before a Metrolink commuter train roared through, authorities said....
January 7, 2022 | Commuter Rail, News
CLEVELAND, January 7 — On January 6, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, ruled against the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) and the Transportation Division of the International Association of Sheet...
January 6, 2022 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, Operation Lifesaver
(Source: Associated Press, January 4, 2022) FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A Brightline higher-speed train fatally struck a pedestrian who walked into its path Tuesday, the fifth death involving the railroad since it recently resumed operations after being shutdown because...
January 6, 2022 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, Legislation
(Source: NorthJersey.com, January 6, 2022) NEWARK, N.J. — Despite compromise and a year and a half of work, Sen. Loretta Weinberg’s last-ditch effort to secure additional reform and accountability for NJ Transit appears unlikely to pass before her term ends next...
January 5, 2022 | Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: NorthJersey.com, January 5, 2022) BERGEN COUNTY, N.J. — About 700 of NJ Transit’s 12,000-person workforce are unable to work after testing positive for COVID-19 as the agency maintains greater than 90% service levels on rail and bus. NJ Transit is...
January 4, 2022 | Commuter Rail, CP, Headlines, KCS, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine, January 3, 2022) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Metra has asked federal regulators to force Canadian Pacific to hand over more documents that would help it evaluate how the proposed CP-Kansas City Southern merger may affect commuter service in the...
