The California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) has committed $115 million to help fund Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority's (LACMTA) Regional Connector Transit Project.
Paul Comfort has been replaced as the head of the Maryland Transit Administration with Kevin B. Quinn, Jr., named acting administrator by Maryland Department of Transportation Secretary Pete K. Rahn.
Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and Metrolinx have shortlisted three teams to design, build, finance, operate and maintain the Hurontario Light Rail Transit (LRT) project.
The Hurontario LRT project includes consists of 12.5 miles of new, dedicated line between Port Credit GO Station in Mississauga, ON, to the Gateway Terminal at Steeles Avenue in Brampton, 22 stations and a maintenance and storage facility for the light-rail vehicles.
TNW Corporation, a Dallas-based owner-operator of shortline railroads and logistics centers, is celebrating its 35th anniversary in 2017.
TNW Corporation started in 1982 as the holding company for a shortline railway, Texas North Western Railway (TXNW), serving customers in the Texas panhandle near Sunray, Texas, with an interchange connection on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad.
The California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) has committed $115 million to help fund Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority's (LACMTA) Regional Connector Transit Project.
Paul Comfort has been replaced as the head of the Maryland Transit Administration with Kevin B. Quinn, Jr., named acting administrator by Maryland Department of Transportation Secretary Pete K. Rahn.
Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and Metrolinx have shortlisted three teams to design, build, finance, operate and maintain the Hurontario Light Rail Transit (LRT) project.
The Hurontario LRT project includes consists of 12.5 miles of new, dedicated line between Port Credit GO Station in Mississauga, ON, to the Gateway Terminal at Steeles Avenue in Brampton, 22 stations and a maintenance and storage facility for the light-rail vehicles.
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) late last week wrapped up a major capital project to replace six escalators at the Woodley Park Station in Washington, D.C.
As part of the project, crews replaced the three longest escalators in the District of Columbia, WMATA officials said in a press release.
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) yesterday broke ground on the Blue Hill Avenue Station on the Fairmount commuter-rail line.
Located in Boston's Mattapan neighborhood, the station will feature a center-island platform and two covered pedestrian ramps.
The Port of Oakland is ready to move more cargo via rail, the port's Executive Director Chris Lytle told a meeting of railroad executives in San Francisco last week.
The port has two "outstanding partners" in Union Pacific Railroad and BNSF Railway Co., Lytle told the annual meeting of the North American Rail Shippers Association.
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Former rail labor leader Edgar Watson died May 31, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) announced yesterday.
Watson served as international vice president for the labor organization from 1979 through 1993, when it was known as the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (BLE). The BLE merged with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and became the BLET in January 2004.
Officials gathered for a groundbreaking ceremony on June 5 to celebrate the construction of the new Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) Blue Hill Avenue station.
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker, Transportation Secretary and CEO Stephanie Pollack, and MBTA Acting General Manager Brian Shortsleeve were in attendance.
Officials gathered for a groundbreaking ceremony on June 5 to celebrate the construction of the new Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) Blue Hill Avenue station.
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker, Transportation Secretary and CEO Stephanie Pollack, and MBTA Acting General Manager Brian Shortsleeve were in attendance.
Officials gathered for a groundbreaking ceremony on June 5 to celebrate the construction of the new Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) Blue Hill Avenue station.
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker, Transportation Secretary and CEO Stephanie Pollack, and MBTA Acting General Manager Brian Shortsleeve were in attendance.
USD Partners LP has acquired a crude-oil terminal in Stroud, Okla., for $25 million, the company announced yesterday.
The terminal will be used for rail-to-pipeline shipments of crude oil from USD Partners' Hardisty terminal in western Canada to the oil hub in Cushing, Okla., according to a company press release.
The Port of Vancouver USA has begun work on the final two projects in its decade-long initiative bolster growth by investing in freight rail infrastructure.
The $250-million West Vancouver Freight Access (WVFA) project consists of 21 individual projects to improve freight rail movement through the port and along BNSF and Union Pacific mainlines connecting the Pacific Northwest to major rail hubs in Chicago and Houston and from Canada to Mexico.
The Port of Vancouver USA has begun work on the final two projects in its decade-long initiative bolster growth by investing in freight rail infrastructure.
The $250-million West Vancouver Freight Access (WVFA) project consists of 21 individual projects to improve freight rail movement through the port and along BNSF and Union Pacific mainlines connecting the Pacific Northwest to major rail hubs in Chicago and Houston and from Canada to Mexico.
The Port of Vancouver USA has begun work on the final two projects in its decade-long initiative bolster growth by investing in freight rail infrastructure.
The $250-million West Vancouver Freight Access (WVFA) project consists of 21 individual projects to improve freight rail movement through the port and along BNSF and Union Pacific mainlines connecting the Pacific Northwest to major rail hubs in Chicago and Houston and from Canada to Mexico.
The California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) is providing nearly $115 million for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority's (Metro) Regional Connector rail project.
The funds come from Proposition 1A bonds, which California voters approved in 2008. California Senate Bill 1029, which was signed into law in 2012, allocated the funds for the Metro project, CHSRA spokeswoman Adeline Yee said in an email.