NJT, SEPTA, Metro-North at 40

RAILWAY AGE, APRIL 2023 ISSUE: Imagine going back 40 years to early 1983. The only passenger trains running along much of Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor (NEC) were operated by Amtrak itself. Otherwise, what

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Dreamstar Lines: Back to the Future?

During the “Golden Age of Railroading” in the middle of the past century, the Southern Pacific’s Lark was the train to take between Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area, at

Brightline Unveils Orlando International Airport Station

Brightline, the Florida-based private-sector passenger railroad, on April 20 unveiled its completed new station at Orlando International Airport and revealed future plans, including some indications about schedules and fares. The present service

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Amfleet I: How Safe After All These Years?

Two veteran railroaders with 110 years’ experience between them have called for Amtrak to phase out use of Amfleet I equipment on the Northeast Corridor (NEC) for safety reasons. They claim that

RUN to Newark on April 28

Several editors here at Railway Age, along with rail managers, planners and advocates from the Northeast Region and elsewhere in the country, will RUN to Newark, N.J on April 28 for a

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Amtrak Adirondack Returning to the Rails

Amtrak’s New York City-Montreal Adirondack train, the only Amtrak service that was discontinued because of the COVID virus, is finally coming back. Its first northbound run from Penn Station New York will

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Part 11: Texas Central Files a Pseudo Answer

Since last year, I have been following the saga of the Texas Central project, a proposed high-speed rail line between Dallas and a point in the sprawl near Houston. The story had

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Oleksandr Kamyshin, Rail Force of One

Through two decades of writing about rail in publications of national scope, I have always concentrated on rail and transit news in the United States and Canada, leaving the international scene to

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Still Riding, Still Writing at 75!

Sometimes I find it difficult to believe that I’ve made it this far. Wednesday, March 8, is my 75th birthday. None of us ever know precisely how many more birthdays we will

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A Varied, Growing Network

RAILWAY AGE, MARCH 2023 ISSUE: Rail transit in Northern California is on the rise.

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