Transload facility to aid North Dakota rail moves

Dakota Plains Holdings, Inc. and a joint-venture partner, Petroleum Transport Solutions, LLC, said Friday construction is under way for the Pioneer Project, designed to expand crude oil transload capacity in New Town, N.D. Canadian Pacific will serve the facility.

For U.S. freight traffic, bifurcated mix resumes

The split results resumed for U.S. freight traffic during the week ending March 9, 2013, according to results released Thursday by the Association of American Railroads.

Fort Lauderdale streetcar gets county OK

Broward County, Fla., gave its approval Tuesday for a streetcar loop, dubbed “The Wave,” to serve Fort Lauderdale.

Bombardier Transportation names Bertling COO

Bombardier Transportation said Wednesday Lutz Bertling has been named the company’s president and chief operating officer, effective June 3. He succeeds current president Andre Navarri, who will remain with the company as a strategic adviser to Bertling for one year, retiring on June 1, 2014.

St. Louis suburb affirms Loop Trolley plans

University City, Mo.’s City Council has unanimously approved a permit for the Loop Trolley, allowing for construction and operation of the streetcar between University City and the Missouri History Museum in St. Louis, west of downtown St. Louis.

NS selects Avtec VoIP consoles

Gilbert, S.C.-based Avtec, Inc. says Norfolk Southern has chosen the company’s Frontier-enabled Scout™ Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) consoles to replace aging equipment.

NJT: Power restored for Hoboken services

New Jersey Transit Tuesday said its electric-powered rail service to and from Hoboken Terminal would resume Sunday, March 24, complemented by changes in schedules to reflect the resumption. Restoration of a key power substation, affected by Hurricane Sandy last October 29, has been completed.

MTA to reopen old South Ferry subway station

New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority has taken the figurative plunge to reopen its old station at South Ferry, in lower Manhattan, in early April, after Hurricane Sandy submerged both the old station and its nearby replacement.

Fed aid lacking, Tempe revamps streetcar plan

Tempe, Ariz., officials are revising plans for a 2.6-mile streetcar, interfacing with the Phoenix area’s Valley Metro light rail transit line, after failing to qualify for “Small Starts” federal funding administered by the Federal Transit Administration.

SPRINTER stopped in its tracks indefinitely

San Diego County’s North County Transit District (NCTD) suspended SPRINTER diesel light railway transit (DLRT) service Saturday “in order to perform necessary maintenance repairs”—repairs that some observers say could take months.

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