With a three-mile rail line donation from Columbia Basin Railroad (CBRW), the Port of Moses Lake in eastern Washington state is advancing a project to boost rail capacity by constructing and rehabilitating approximately eight miles of rail corridor connecting the existing CBRW rail line in Wheeler to the Grant County International Airport (GCIA) and industrial land along the Wheeler Industrial Corridor.
Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) begins expanding its Hillcrest Complex to house new Alstom-built streetcars. Also, Chicago’s Metra considers renaming its regional/commuter rail lines; and Amtrak updates its mobile app for riders.
BNSF recognizes its 2024 Safety Bell Award honorees and partners with Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) on first-responder training in North Dakota. Also, CPKC and CN help welcome to the Port of Vancouver and Port Saint John, respectively, the first vessels from the Gemini Cooperation, a new global shipping operational collaboration between Hapag-Lloyd AG and A.P. Moller-Maersk.
Amtrak has agreed to pay real estate firm Rexmark $505 million to control Washington Union Station’s commercial spaces, according to a Feb. 7 report by The Washington Post, which said that if the move is approved by a D.C. federal court judge, it would end a years-long dispute.
U.S. rail traffic for the week ending March 8, 2025 (Week 10), came in at 497,412 carloads and intermodal units, rising 5.4% from the same week last year, based on 219,457 carloads—up 2.6% from 2024—and intermodal volume of 277,955 containers and trailers—up 7.7%, the Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported March 12.
“Given the shared priorities between the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) and the nation’s state departments of transportation (state DOTs), we are calling attention to detrimental project delivery impacts from a growing
Union Pacific (UP) has placed Metra’s regional/commuter rail service in Chicagoland “at risk by demanding” that it pay “economically unreasonable and monopolistic rates to continue using the UP Lines for its public service,” Metra wrote in a Surface Transportation Board (STB) application for terminal trackage rights that was submitted March 7.
British Columbia’s TransLink has begun field testing the first of its new Mark V trainsets, which will run on the SkyTrain automated rapid transit system in metro Vancouver.
Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon (TriMet) has issued its $1.94 billion budget proposal for fiscal year (FY) 2026, which it said “holds the line—with no increases beyond necessary contractual obligations, such
For the first nine weeks of the year, ending March 1, 2025, North American carload and intermodal traffic increased 2.3% from the prior-year period, the Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported March 5. The United States saw a gain, while Canada and Mexico experienced losses.