Large train derailment reported near Lestock, Sask. https://t.co/5KWuJ3oZv3 — CTV Regina (@ctvregina) March 12, 2026 WINNIPEG, Manitoba — The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is dispatching an investigator to the derailment of a Canadian National train today (March 12) near Leross, Saskatchewan, the TSB has announced. The CBC reports that 49 cars of potash derailed […]
KEARNY, N.J. — The Portal North Bridge has carried its first passenger train. Marking the progress and near-completion of the cutover of one track on the new bridge over the Hackensack River, NJ Transit and Amtrak today (March 12) operated a ceremonial first train across the 2.44-mile structure. Revenue service on the new bridge will […]
KERSEY, Colo. — Two ordinary boxcars dating to around 1905 are being restored to tell a World War II-era story. The Rocky Mountain Railroad Heritage Society and the Kersey Historical Museum are collaborating on the project and interpreting the story of a Japanese American family who fashioned the cars into a home. “Kersey is a […]
WASHINGTON — Shippers this week cheered the Surface Transportation Board’s proposal to boost rail competition, while railroads offered a range of nuanced responses to limit how future rate cases should be addressed without explicitly rejecting reciprocal switching. The STB in January said it aims to repeal regulations that since 1985 have effectively prevented sole-served carload […]
OTTAWA, Ontario — VIA Rail Canada’s interim CEO faced pointed questions about equipment problems and remote service during a parliamentary hearing on Wednesday, with equipment reliability issues spurring a resolution calling for VIA’s upcoming long-distance equipment purchase to follow “Buy Canadian” rules. The session before the House of Commons’ Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure, and […]
ST. LOUIS — Former Wabtec CEO Ray Betler has joined the board of directors of Intramotev, the company developing autonomous railcars. Betler, who began his career as a propulsion systems engineer at Westinghouse, rose to become the youngest head of engineering and later president and CEO in the company’s 120-year history. He joined Wabtec in […]
NEW YORK — The Trump administration has lost another round in court over funding for the Hudson Tunnel rail project, with a federal appeals court rejecting the administration’s bid to halt payments. Reuters reports a three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled, in the suit brought by the states of New […]
WASHINGTON — U.S. carload and intermodal traffic were both up during the week ending March 7, 2026, the Association of American Railroads reports. AAR figures show traffic for the week was 514,996 carloads and intermodal units, an overall increase of 3.5% compared to the same week in 2025. That includes 231,889 carloads, a gain of […]
NEWINGTON, Conn. — Six short line and regional railroads will receive $20 million in grants under Connecticut’s Freight Rail Infrastructure Program, the state Department of Transportation announced on Wednesday, March 11. The grants will be supplemented by nearly $4 million in investment by the railroads. “Investments in freight rail make the supply chain more resilient, […]
An Electro-Motive Division GP38-2 has been added to the Master Line from Atlas Model Railroad Co. The N scale model, based on a Phase II prototype, uses former Walthers (and before that Life-Like) tooling that Atlas acquired back in 2018. Prototype history Electro-Motive Division produced the GP38-2 from January 1972 until July 1986. More than […]
CALGARY, Alberta — A switch crew’s “adaptations” of written rules contributed to a CPKC collision and derailment in a yard at Coalhurst, Alberta, on Feb. 11, 2024, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada said in an investigation report issued today (March 11, 2026). Also contributing, the TSB said, was that a utility employee providing switching […]
MONTREAL — Canada’s high-speed rail project has extended the public consultation process around its route selection to April 24, adding 27 days for public comment. Alto, the Crown corporation leading development of the Toronto-Montreal-Quebec City project, announced the extended consulation period today, which it said is because of “a high level of participation and sustained […]
