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Keep up to date on the latest railroad news from the northeastern United States and Canada, edited by Carl Perelman.
December 11, 2023
Reading & Northern Makes History
This week Reading and Northern Railroad surpassed one million tons of anthracite moved over its railroad for the first time in its 33-year history.
December 11, 2023
SEPTA Will No Longer Accept Tokens
While the sale of tokens ended in 2018 in conjunction with the introduction of the SEPTA Key card, SEPTA continued to accept tokens as payment on buses and trolleys and via SEPTA Fare kiosks located at stations and bus loops. At midnight on December 31, 2023, SEPTA will permanently retire the inventory, no longer accepting tokens as a form of payment.
December 11, 2023
Amtrak and Partners Receive Federal Grants to Improve and Expand Passenger Rail Across America
Amtrak and its partners have been awarded more than $2.1 billion to improve existing routes and advance plans to expand Amtrak service across the United States.
December 8, 2023
Maryland Light Rail Temporarily Suspends All Service for Emergency Inspection and Repairs
Effective 12:01 a.m. on Friday, December 8, the Maryland Department of Transportation Maryland Transit Administration will temporarily suspend Light Rail service at all stops in order to perform emergency inspections of every vehicle in the fleet.
December 8, 2023
President Biden Announces $8.2 Billion in New Grants for High-Speed Rail Projects Nationwide
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) today announced that it has awarded $8.2 billion for 10 passenger rail projects across the country while announcing corridor planning activities that will impact every region nationwide. This unprecedented investment in America’s nationwide intercity passenger rail network builds on a $16.4 billion investment announced last month for 25 projects of national significance along America’s busiest rail corridor.
December 7, 2023
Weekly Rail Traffic for November and the Week Ending December 2, 2023
The Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending December 2, 2023, as well as volumes for November 2023.
December 7, 2023
Casey, Fetterman Announce $144 Million to Expand Amtrak Service Between Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, and Philadelphia
U.S. Senators Bob Casey (D-PA) and John Fetterman (D-PA) announced $143,629,028 from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to upgrade rail infrastructure along the Keystone West Corridor between Pittsburgh and Harrisburg to accommodate a second daily round-trip of the Amtrak Pennsylvanian service.
December 7, 2023
CN to Acquire Iowa Northern Railway
CN announced that it has signed and closed an agreement to acquire Iowa Northern Railway (IANR), which operates approximately 275 track miles in Iowa connecting to CN’s U.S. rail network. The transaction closed into an independent voting trust pending regulatory review of the transaction by the U.S. Surface Transportation Board (STB).
December 6, 2023
Genesee & Wyoming’s Rail Link, Inc. Switching Subsidiary Wins Five New Contracts
Genesee & Wyoming Inc. (G&W) announced that its railcar switching subsidiary, Rail Link, Inc., has secured five new contracts across the U.S. since September.
December 5, 2023
Washington Metro Begins Repressing Wheels on 7000-series Fleet
Metro announced that it has begun replacing the wheels on all 7000-series railcars under new, higher standards that will allow Metro to resume regular maintenance intervals and gradually add more 7K railcars to service, with the first railcars going into passenger service yesterday morning.
