The Korea Railroad Research Institute (KRRI) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with both ENSCO, Inc., operator of the Federal Railroad Administration’s (FRA) Transportation Technology Center (TTC), as well as MxV Rail, a subsidiary of the Association of American Railroads (AAR) to “expand collaboration in railway safety, technology and innovation.”
The Milwaukee Area-Racine-Kenosha (MARK) Rail Commission is established in Wisconsin to study passenger service. Also, Denver Regional Transportation District (RTD) in Colorado launches “open payments” with Masabi.
Governor Josh Shapiro on Nov. 24 directed Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) Secretary Mike Carroll to allocate $219.9 million in additional capital funding to the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) to support urgent safety upgrades and infrastructure improvements.
Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) will lease 10 railcars to alleviate pressure on its Regional Rail service, as it performs federally mandated safety inspections and makes repairs to Silverliner IV cars, following
The Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) is updating the Idaho Statewide Rail Plan and is asking for public input to help guide the future of rail infrastructure across the state.
Nearly 300 professionals from freight and passenger railroads, industry suppliers and consultants, universities, and research organizations gathered in Pueblo, Colo., earlier this month for the Third Annual TTC Conference & Tour, reported
Following unanimous approval from the Board of Public Works last week, the Maryland Department of Transportation Maryland Transit Administration (MDOT MTA) announced Oct. 9 that it will begin construction to expand and modernize the MARC train storage facilities at the Martin Maintenance Yard in Baltimore County.
By a 50-47 party line vote in the Senate, David Armstrong Fink was confirmed Oct. 7 as the nation’s 16th Federal Railroad Administrator. Although the Senate Commerce Committee made a favorable recommendation for confirmation in May, party politics delayed the floor vote on Fink’s and 107 others Presidential nominations.
The federal government entered a partial shutdown at 12:01 a.m. ET on Oct. 1, 2025, after both Republican and Democratic funding proposals failed in the Senate.
The debut in late August 2025 of Amtrak’s long-awaited NextGen Acela trainsets for the Northeast Corridor captured media and rail industry attention at a time when Amtrak’s much larger—geographically speaking—Long-Distance (LD) network