Rail News Home Federal Legislation & Regulation 3/21/2018 Rail News: Federal Legislation & Regulation FRA: PTC operating on 56 percent freight route miles FRA Administrator Ronald Batory Photo – fra.dot.gov Positive train control (PTC) systems are operating on about 56 percent of freight railroads' route miles that are required to be governed by PTC systems,…
Posts published in March 2018
The company has wrapped up the first of 100 locomotive modernizations for Norfolk Southern Railway. Photo – GE Transportation GE Transportation has completed the first of 100 locomotive modernizations for Norfolk Southern Railway in 2018 and has received an order to modernize 80 Canadian Pacific locomotives this year, the manufacturer announced yesterday.In 2017, GE modernized…
Rail News Home Federal Legislation & Regulation 3/20/2018 Rail News: Federal Legislation & Regulation STB seeks Class Is' response to rail service complaints The Surface Transportation Board (STB) is asking all Class Is to send the board their service outlooks for 2018.The request, which the board sent to all Class I executives last week, was…
Rail News Home Federal Legislation & Regulation 3/20/2018 Rail News: Federal Legislation & Regulation APTA leaders question Trump plan to cut funds for transit capital projects APTA President and CEO Paul Skoutelas Photo – APTA [Editor's note: This story was updated with new figures from APTA at 3:45 p.m. today.] President Donald Trump's proposed funding…
Canadian Minister of Transport Marc Garneau (center) announced the funding yesterday. Photo – Transport Canada’s Twitter account The Canadian government will provide the funding to…
Rail News Home Federal Legislation & Regulation 3/19/2018 Rail News: Federal Legislation & Regulation NY officials seek to rename Rochester Amtrak station after Slaughter U.S. Rep. Louise Slaughter Photo – louise.house.gov New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and U.S. Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) have called on Amtrak to rename its intermodal station in…
Built by Stadler, the unit was unloaded in Grapevine, Texas. Photo – Trinity Metro's Twitter account The Fort Worth Transportation Authority earlier this month took delivery of the second trainset for its TEXRail commuter-rail system.Built by Stadler, the unit was unloaded in Grapevine, according to a tweet from the agency, which has been rebranded as…
Rail News Home Federal Legislation & Regulation 3/16/2018 Rail News: Federal Legislation & Regulation Operation Lifesaver 'alarmed' at hike in rail trespass, crossing deaths Fatalities caused by railroad trespassing soared 22.3 percent and deaths at grade crossings climbed 7.4 percent in 2017 over the previous year, Operation Lifesaver Inc. (OLI) announced yesterday.Citing recently released Federal…
Rail News Home Federal Legislation & Regulation 3/8/2018 Rail News: Federal Legislation & Regulation USDOT issues $46 million in TIGER grants for rail projects in Maryland, Indiana and New Mexico The USDOT expects to officially announce the complete list of the latest TIGER grant awards by week's end. Photo – Progressive Railroading file photo [Editor's…
The agency may put the three-car trains into service as early as this spring. Photo – SFMTA's blog The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) has begun testing three-car setups with its new Siemens-built light-rail units.The agency may put the three-car trains into service as early as this spring, SFMTA officials wrote in a blog."Most…