May 15, 2024

FRA Makes More Than $2 Billion in New Funding Available to Continue Improving America’s Busiest Passenger Rail Corridor

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) issued a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) that makes available over $2 billion in Federal-State Partnership for Intercity Passenger Rail Program funding for projects located on the Northeast Corridor (Fed State-NEC). The corridor supports 800,000 passengers per day and billions of dollars in annual economic activity.

May 14, 2024

NJ Transit, Amtrak Announce Portal North Bridge Reaches 50% Completion Milestone

NJ TRANSIT and Amtrak have announced the Portal North Bridge has reached 50 percent completion. At a ceremony at the construction site, the agencies marked the halfway point of the project.

May 13, 2024

NY Governor Hochul Announces Completion of Megaproject to Upgrade Metro-North Railroad’s Maintenance and Operations Hub at Croton-on-Hudson

Governor Kathy Hochul announced the completion of upgrades to MTA Metro-North Railroad’s vital maintenance and operations hub at Croton-on-Hudson, NY, which employs 1,200 people. With the opening of this new 400,000 square foot facility, known as the Harmon Shop, Metro-North will be able to maintain train reliability and meet the maintenance needs of its operations for decades to come.

May 10, 2024

Norfolk Southern Announces Shareholders Have Elected 10 of 13 of the Company’s Director Nominees

Norfolk Southern Corporation announced that the preliminary vote count of its proxy solicitor indicates that its shareholders have voted to elect 10 of Norfolk Southern’s director nominees at the 2024 Annual Meeting of Shareholders.

May 9, 2024

Weekly Rail Traffic for the Week Ending May 4, 2024

The Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending May 4, 2024. For this week, total U.S. weekly rail traffic was 463,106 carloads and intermodal units, up 0.0 percent compared with the same week last year.

May 8, 2024

CSX and STG Logistics Extend Strategic Partnership

May 7, 2024

G&AR Rebrands as Pinsly Railroad Company

Gulf & Atlantic Railways, LLC (G&AR) announced May 1 that it is rebranding as Pinsly Railroad Company following the October 2023 acquisition of Pioneer Valley Railroad, Pinsly’s last short line railroad company.

May 7, 2024

MTA Reports Details of Nearly $300 Million in Capital Savings

MTA Construction & Development (MTA C&D) today outlined details of nearly $300 million in capital program cost savings as part of its 2023 Year in Review and 2024 Strategic Plan, which outlines initiatives to improve the delivery of capital projects and modernize the transit system better, faster, and cheaper.

May 6, 2024

Operation Toy Train Doings

Operation Toy Train will be participating in a pair of events this Saturday, May 11, at Port Jervis, N.Y, and Phillipsburg, NJ

May 6, 2024

Amtrak Harrisburg Line Track Work

An Amtrak work crew, that includes an undercutter and the TLM (Track Laying Machine), is presently working to replace rail, ties and renew ballast between Harrisburg and Middletown, PA.