Short Lines

STB issues GLBT decision

On May 1, 2017, Great Lakes Basin Transportation, Inc. (GLBT) filed an application seeking authority from the Surface Transportation Board to construct and operate an approximately 261-mile rail line extending around the Chicago, Ill. area at a distance of 38 to 89 miles from downtown and passing through counties in Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana. The application, among other items, requested a protective order governing exchange and use of information GLBT deemed confidential.

A circus, and its trains, rolls into history

On May 22, 2017, after 146 years, the Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey Circus folded its tent for the last time after a final show at Long Island’s Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum and passed into the history books. The next day, the circus’s famous 79-car Red Train operated for the last time; it had been for years one of two, the other being the Blue Train.

D&RR wins NJ rail freight pact

New Jersey’s Morris County Board of Freeholders has awarded a five-year contract for rail freight services to the Dover & Rockaway River Railroad.