The Northern New England Passenger Rail Authority (NNEPRA) said Wednesday the extension of Amtrak Downeaster service to Freeport and Brunswick, Maine, will begin Nov. 1. Tickets for the new service go on sale Oct. 1.
IndustryWeek has selected L.B. Foster Co.’s CXT® Concrete Ties facility in Spokane, Wash., as a finalist in the magazine’s 2012 Best Plants Award for Excellence in Manufacturing competition.
Mount Clare train yard in southwestern Baltimore would be the site of a $90 million, near-dock intermodal yard designed to aid traffic flow through the Port of Baltimore. CSX Transportation would operate the facility.
Falls Church, Va.-based ENSCO, Inc. said Wednesday Amtrak has selected for use the company’s TrackIT(r) Track Chart Management System. The web-based system hosts Amtrak’s official track charts and provides them as high quality PDF digital copies or hard copies.
VIA Rail Canada said Wednesday it has initiated “a new electronic ticketing service enabling passengers to access their tickets and information anywhere and any time from their personal electronic device, allowing rail users to avoid any pre-boarding lines and travel stress-free.
Introduced to service 48 years ago, New York City Transit’s original fleet of 600 Budd-built R-32 cars—dubbed the Brightliners for their gleaming stainless steel bodies—has dwindled to 232 scarred survivors working on the A and C lines.
Greenwich, Conn.-based Genesee & Wyoming Inc. Monday said its August traffic volume fell 4.5% measured against the same month a year ago, with third-quarter 2012 traffic to date down 5.2%. Excluding 2,932
Dallas Area Rapid Transit is expected to select Brookville Equipment Corp. to provide two modern streetcars for the proposed Oak Cliff streetcar project. DART’s Board of Directors may make the decision sometime this month. Preliminary approval by a DART oversight committee for a contract totaling about $9.4 million may occur this week.
The debut of Cincinnati’s $110 million, 4.9-mile streetcar line will occur in mid-2015, not in late 2014 as originally planned.
Montreal’s Agence métropolitaine de transport (AMT) plans to commit C$40 million to upgrade its Mount Royal tunnel to accommodate diesel-hauled passenger trains, which would begin using the retrofitted tunnel in late 2013.