NEW YORK — The Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s New York City Transit has reduced subway service this week as staffing feels the effect of the COVID-19 Omicron variant. In a series of Twitter messages on Sunday, NYC Transit said subway trains would run less frequently Monday through Thursday, as the system reallocates train crews where they […]
IRVINE, Ky. — Kentucky Steam Heritage Corp., the organization restoring Chesapeake & Ohio Kanawha-type 2-8-4 No. 2716, has announced an agreement to bring the locomotive to the Railroad Museum of New England as the first stop of a year-long “residency program” following completion of the restoration project. Announcement of the plans to operate at the […]
The 3-foot-gauge Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn was built in 1875 and in 1928 electrified its double-track line along the shore north of Boston. The line included this swing bridge at Point of Pines. William Butler Jr. photo […]
HARTFORD, Conn. — Funding for new locomotives and two new stations is included in $839 million in transportation projects approved Tuesday by Connecticut’s State Bond Commission, the Hartford Courant reports. The commission unanimously approved the set of 58 transportation projects. Included are $280 million for new dual-power locomotives to replace aging diesels used on some […]
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A new 35-year agreement between New Haven, Connecticut, and the New Haven Parking Authority will renovate the century-old New Haven Union Station while adding parking and retail space. The New Haven Register reports the deal ensures the parking authority will continue to run the state-owned station, as it has since the […]
NEW YORK — Amtrak will spend about $150 million to repair its existing tunnels between New Jersey and New York’s Penn Station as it awaits construction of two new tunnels on the Northeast Corridor route. Bloomberg reports the plans for the North River Tunnel, built in 1910, are outlined in a report week outlining work […]
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania’s State Transportation Commission has approved $33 million in spending for 25 projects to improve freight rail operations in the state, Gov. Tom Wolf announced last week. Eleven railroads, as well as shippers and local government agencies, will receive state funding in amounts ranging from $87,000 to $9 million for track improvements, […]
NEW YORK — A Long Island Rail Road dispatcher supervisor and dispatcher have been disciplined after being found asleep on the job by investigators from the Office of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Inspector General. A report by Inspector General Carolyn Pokorny says the office received a tip that overnight dispatchers were turning off the lights […]
MERTZTOWN, Pa. — The Longswamp Township Historical Society has received a $75,000 grant for its project to relocate a circa-1875 railroad station in Mertztown. The funds from the Berks County Redevelopment Agency will go toward the Save Our Station-Mertztown Train Station Restoration Project. To date, more than $195,000 has been raised for the project, with […]
DAUPHIN, Pa. — A 27-year-old Kingsport, Tenn., man has been identified as the victim of a fatal accident on a Norfolk Southern project earlier this month. The Kingsport Times-News reports Kolton Parker Helbert, an employee of National Salvage & Service Corp., was killed in the Dec. 8 accident. National Salvage provides demolition and dismantlement services. […]
NEW YORK — The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has approved a design-build contract for the Penn Station Access project, which will bring Metro-North service to Penn Station via the existing Amtrak Northeast Corridor route over Hell Gate Bridge. A joint venture of Halmar International and RailWorks has received the contract for the project, estimated to take […]
NEW YORK — The destruction of New York’s Penn Station — built in 1910, demolished in 1963 — is often cited as a seminal moment in the movement to preserve historic buildings. Now, the processes to protect historic structures may be used to prevent redevelopment of the current Penn Station, the crowded, confusing, and largely […]
