All posts tagged "Railtransport"

SEATTLE — A landslide north of Vancouver has disrupted passenger train service between Seattle and Portland, Oregon, until Sunday night, according to the Washington state Department of Transportation. The slide, which occurred south of Kelso early Saturday morning, blocked the railroad tracks and triggered a 24-hour moratorium for all passenger trains per BNSF Railway rules, WSDOT spokesperson Janet Matkin said. The moratorium affects several West Coast Amtrak lines, including Coast Starlight trains. Trains previously scheduled to terminate in Seattle will instead terminate in Portland. Buses ......

Three days after the Biden administration announced $8.2 billion in grants for passenger rail projects across the country, U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg came to Raleigh on Monday to highlight one of the biggest. The N.C. Department of Transportation will get nearly $1.1 billion to build the first leg of a high-speed rail line that will eventually connect Raleigh with Richmond, Virginia. The grant will allow the state to build new tracks, bridges and stations in Wake County and extend Amtrak’s Piedmont service to Wake Forest. Speaking to a gathering of more than 250 people in Ral......

A federal program is on track to potentially provide high-speed train travel connecting Charlotte to Atlanta, as well as other cities. A $500,000 study has just been approved to examine the feasibility of such a plan. It’s part of $3.5 million in federal grant money that the North Carolina Department of Transportation secured last week to identify and develop seven corridors for potential rail lines across the state, which includes the Charlotte to Atlanta plan. Each corridor will receive up to $500,000 to create a service development plan from the U.S. Department of Transportation to identify......

Three men were walking through a railroad tunnel in 1980 when they came across a body, police in Washington said. Now, DNA testing has helped identity the remains 43 years later as 56-year-old Donald Leroy Pearson, the Spokane Police Department said in a June 2 news release. His body was discovered in Spokane in January 1980 with burn marks and significant head trauma, police said. Officials ruled his death a homicide because of his “traumatic injuries and smoke inhalation.” But authorities were unable to identify the body because he didn’t have any identification on him at the time. He also d......

Federal regulators have approved the $31 billion merger of Kansas City Southern railroad with Canadian Pacific. The new railroad, to be named Canadian Pacific Kansas City, will become the first and only railroad to run a direct line between Canada and Mexico — bisecting and hauling freight through the heart of the country, including Kansas City, the second largest freight rail center in the United States. But the merger also will further reduce the number of major North American railroads. The Surface Transportation Board, the primary economic regulator of railroads, announced its decision Wed......

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Monday pledged to hold American freight railroads to stricter standards in the wake of a train disaster in Ohio last month and Republican criticism of the Biden administration’s response. Buttigieg, who attended several events around the Kansas City area on Monday, said the Biden White House had already been pushing for tighter regulations before the Feb. 3 derailment of a Norfolk Southern freight train carrying hazardous materials in East Palestine, Ohio. “There have been a lot of improvements for sure over the years, but the ......