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WASHINGTON — Members of the Transport Workers Union have ratified a new five-year contract with Conrail including a 17.5% wage increase, the union has announced. Journeyman carmen will make more than $100,000 a year by the end of the contract. TWU International President John Samuelsen called the deal “a big win for TWU railroad workers” […]
ORANGE, Calif. — Amtrak’s Pacific Surfliner has introduced a railcar wrapped with a limited-time design celebrating the 70th anniversary of Disneyland, an event the state-supported passenger operation is also marking with special promotions. The wrapped car was unveiled and entered service on Wednesday, June 25. “We are thrilled to be part of the Disneyland Resort […]
A McCloud River Railroad freight rolls thought Bartle, Calif., in July 1983. Lead unit No. 39 is the road’s sole SD38-2 while trailing unit 38 is the highest numbered of three SD38s. The logging and lumber road operated Baldwin diesels into the late 1960s. Jim Shaw photo […]
FORT WORTH, Texas — BNSF Railway and the Transportation Communications Union (TCU) intermodal group have reached a tentative agreement on a new five-year contract. The tentative agreement, announced on Wednesday, covers 791 employees. BNSF now has reached ratified or tentative agreements with 10 of 13 unions representing 45% of the railway’s workforce. “We are pleased […]
WASHINGTON — Canadian Pacific Kansas City’s local service in former Kansas City Southern territory, which faltered after a May 3 computer system cutover, improved considerably last week. First- and last-mile performance now stands at or above 80% on three of the four operating divisions that include portions of the former KCS, CPKC told the Surface […]
WASHINGTON — U.S. weekly rail traffic rebounded slightly in the week ending June 21, 2025, moving narrowly above 2024 levels after two weeks in negative territory. The Association of American Railroads reports total rail traffic for the week was 487,328 carloads and intermodal units, up 0.4% from the same week a year ago. That included […]
WOODBRIDGE, Va. — Virginia Railway Express CEO Rich Dalton, who has led the commuter operation since 2019, has announced plans to retire effective Oct. 3, 2025. Dalton announced his retirement plans at the VRE Operations Board meeting on June 20. Dalton joined VRE in 2009 as Chief Operating Officer, although he had been involved with […]
RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia’s Commonwealth Transportation Board has approved a six-year transportation improvement plan including more than $7 billion for public transi. Some $1.7 billion of that is slated for the Transforming Rail in Virginia project acquiring and developing rail lines for passenger service. Other key rail-related elements of the plan for fiscal years 2026 […]
BALTIMORE — Expanded weekday and weekend operation and extension of two of the system’s three lines are among changes proposed for MARC commuter train service in a report released Wednesday (June 25, 2025) by the Maryland Department of Transportation. The 76-page MARC Growth and Transformation Plan includes five-year, 15-year, and “unconstrained” (longer-term) plans. “Thanks to […]
Labor intensive Hundred-pound sacks of flour are stacked in a single-sheathed Rock Island boxcar at Minneapolis in 1939. The paper lining helps protect the bags. John Vachon, Library of Congress photo […]
MOORPARK, Calif. — The driver of the truck was killed and one train passenger was injured as a Metrolink train collided with a semi truck near Moorpark today (June 25, 2025), KABC-TV reports. The collision occurred shortly after 2 p.m. at a private crossing near Los Angeles Avenue and Montair Drive, between Metrolink’s Camarillo and […]
Former P42 locomotive No. 184 has been transformed into non-powered cab car No. 9700, shown seen here trailing southbound Empire Service train 244 at Garrison, N.Y. Amtrak is beginning to utilize these new conversions instead of aging converted F40 locomotives and ex-Metroliner cab cars, dating from the 1960s, to facilitate push-pull service. Conversion of the […]
