ODOT - Tue March 12, 2019
Portland's Peninsula Junction Receives Help for Completion
A $1.3 million grant will soon help reduce passenger and freight train congestion at the busy Peninsula Junction in north Portland. The funds, from the Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements program, will be used to realign tracks and upgrade railroad switches in the area, allowing trains to make safer, more consistent and more fluid movements through the junction....
David Porter – ASSOCIATED PRESS - Mon March 04, 2019
Bill Seeks to Break Funding Impasse on $13B Tunnel Project
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) Lawmakers advanced legislation Feb. 7 aimed at accelerating progress on a new, $13 billion rail tunnel between New Jersey and New York as a funding impasse with the federal government continues to keep the project stuck in neutral....
AASHTO Journal - Mon February 25, 2019
FRA Rescinds Funding for California High Speed Rail Project
In a Feb. 19 letter, the Federal Railroad Administration informed the California High Speed Rail Authority that it intends to cancel $929 million in federal grants yet to be paid for building a high-speed rail link between the Los Angeles region and the San Francisco bay area....
AASHTO Journal - Tue February 19, 2019
FRA to Provide Nearly $57M in New CRISI Grants
The Federal Railroad Administration issued more than $56.9 million in grants on Feb. 8 for 18 railroad infrastructure projects in 16 states; funding being made available through its Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements or CRISI program....
Associated Press - Wed February 13, 2019
Rail Traffic Rises Amid N.M., Texas Oil Surge
CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) Traffic is surging in the railroad industry in southeast New Mexico due to the oil boom in the state and West Texas. The number of rail cars traveling through the Carlsbad area almost tripled during the region's recent oil boom as extraction continued to grow in Permian Basin, the Carlsbad Current-Argus reported....
Kathleen Ronayne - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Tue February 12, 2019
UPDATE: Trump Weighs in After California Governor Pulls Plug on High-Speed Train
UPDATE: Following Californa Gov. Gavin Newsom's Feb. 12 announcement that he drop plans to construct a high-speed rail line between Los Angeles and San Francisco, President Trump demanded that the state return $3.5 billion in federal dollars that had gone to fund the project....
Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Mon February 04, 2019
Purple Line Aims to Cure Traffic Headaches
In Maryland, crews are constructing a 16-mi. east-west light rail line that operates mostly on the surface with 21 stations, connecting New Carrollton in Prince George's County and Bethesda in Montgomery County....
MTA - Mon February 04, 2019
Bronx to Get Four New Metro-North Railroad Stations
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced that an agreement has been reached among the MTA, Empire State Development and Amtrak that will lead to four new Metro-North Railroad stations being built along an underutilized rail line in the east Bronx with access to Penn Station....
AASHTO Journal - Tue January 29, 2019
USDOT Awards DART $908M Rail Financing Loan
The U.S. Department of Transportation's Build America Bureau provided the Dallas Area Rapid Transit or DART system with a $908 million Railroad Rehabilitation & Improvement Financing or RRIF direct loan on Dec....
Verena Dobnik - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Wed January 02, 2019
Deep Underground, New NYC Train Hub Slowly Takes Shape
NEW YORK (AP) - Deep in the bedrock 15 stories below the famous Grand Central Terminal, a cavernous construction site is slowly, and expensively, taking shape as a commuter rail hub that will accommodate more than 150,000 passengers a day....
