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.
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.
Rail industry representatives spanning freight and passenger railroads, along with industry suppliers, labor groups, supportive state and local political officials, and rail activists were out in force on and around Capitol Hill Thursday.
Broward County, Fla., gave its approval Tuesday for a streetcar loop, dubbed “The Wave,” to serve Fort Lauderdale.
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.
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.
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.
A job at the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) offers accomplishing your own career goals, earning highly competitive pay, and enjoying an unparalleled benefits program. BART, one of America’s premier heavy rail public transit systems, has over 3,100 employees and an operating budget in excess of $600 million annually. Headquartered in the heart of downtown Oakland, California, BART has a service area covering the 4 county area of San Francisco, San Mateo, Alameda and Contra Costa, a total population of over 4 million people. BART’s current fleet of 669 railcars allows it to achieve an average weekday ridership of over 350,000 passengers throughout its 44 stations. BART, a wonderful career opportunity.
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.
One of the perks of living in the Idaho panhandle, snuggled between Washington and Montana, is the ability to eavesdrop on our Canadian neighbors just to the north. During a recent drive to work, I was paying close attention to the CBC radio Eyeopener show, which is broadcast out of Calgary, Alberta.
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.
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.
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.
