A Providence & Worcester local freight works a customer at Rocky Hill, Conn., on the Wethersfield Secondary in January 2019. Scott A. Hartley HARTFORD, Conn. – Genesee & Wyoming’s Providence & Worcester Railroad plans to reopen 8 miles of state-owned rail line in Hartford, Wethersfield, and Rocky Hill in April. The north end of P&W’s […]
Name: Neal Mayer Forum User Name: NealM Railroad Name: The Fitchfield Line Location: Boston, MA Scale: Traditional O Gauge Theme: Location: North and West of Boston Description: The Burlington Zephyr, on her nationwide publicity tour, travels along the O gauge Fitchfield Line on her way from Boston to Schenectady New York. Featuring MTH Railking Pioneer […]
Amtrak P32 No. 713 leads train 290, the Ethan Allen Express, south out of Albany-Rennselaer toward New York Penn Station. The track coming in from the lower right is where trains from Pittsfield would arrive, and then, with a new engine, head south. Dan Kittay PITTSFIELD, Mass. — An effort to establish “one seat” train […]
PHILADELPHIA – The police force of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority has gone on strike as of 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, the Philadelphia Enquirer reports. The agency has 270 officers. SEPTA expects to deploy its 49 supervisors to patrol during the labor action, who will receive assistance from city police. […]
PHILADELPHIA — Amtrak service between Philadelphia and Harrisburg, Pa., remains suspended after problems with the overhead power lines stopped service on Monday, but the passenger railroad says service will be restored today. Amtrak’s notice on the outage does not indicate a projected time for the restoration of service, interrupted early Monday because of weather-related problems. […]
BALTIMORE — CSX Transportation CEO James Foote on Monday joined Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan in officially seeking federal funding for the $466 million Howard Street Tunnel clearance project. Hogan’s office announced that it submitted an application for a U.S. Department of Transportation grant that would fund raising clearances in the tunnel to permit double-stacks to […]
PHILADELPHIA — Amtrak has suspended all service between Philadelphia and Harrisburg because of problems with the overhead wire west of the Elizabethtown, Pa., station. The suspension was announced at 6 a.m. EST on Monday, and is in effect pending the completion of repairs. Watch Amtrak.com for updates. The passenger railroad had previously announced the cancellation […]
NEW YORK — Rail systems in the Northeast are operating with some delays and schedule alterations in light of a storm forecast to drop up to 10 inches of snow in New York City. As of 8:20 a.m. EST, New York’s MTA is reporting some delays on the Metro-North New Haven Line, and cancellations of […]
NEW YORK — Concerned by delays in the installation of positive train control on New York MTA’s two commuter railroads, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer has called for the Federal Railroad Administration to step in and oversee PTC installation on the Metro-North and Long Island Rail Road. “To know that the $1 billion dollar project I […]
BOSTON — The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority has unveiled the first of 10 rebuilt F40PH locomotives for its commuter rail service. The Boston Globe reports that the program, costing about $3 million per locomotive, will extend the life of each unit about 20 years. Positive train control equipment has been added as part of the […]
A Staten Island Railway train pauses at Huguenot station. A new proposal would consolidate some functions of the Staten Island Railway, New York subway, and other rail operations as part of a restructuring of the MTA. Ralph Spielman A Poughkeepsie-bound Hudson Line Metro-North commuter train stops at 125th Street station in Manhattan. A new proposal […]
Brown, rusted rails on the lower-level tracks at NJ Transit’s Lindenwold, N.J., station attest to the lack of activity on the commuter railroad’s Atlantic City Line, closed since September 2018. Service will be restored in May, NJ Transit has announced. Ralph Spielman NEWARK, N.J. — The long wait for restoration of service on NJ Transit’s […]
