The Type 1 vehicles have been operating since the MAX Blue Line began service in 1986. Photo – TriMet's blog The Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon (TriMet) this spring will begin the process to replace 26 of its oldest light-rail vehicles.The "Type 1" vehicles have been operating since light-rail service began in 1986. TriMet…
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Rail News Home Federal Legislation & Regulation 2/13/2018 Rail News: Federal Legislation & Regulation Trump's FY2019 budget would slash Amtrak funding President Donald Trump yesterday proposed a fiscal-year 2019 budget that would cut in half the subsidy for Amtrak passenger-rail service.The proposal is similar to one that the Trump administration called for last year, but…
Rail News Home Federal Legislation & Regulation 2/13/2018 Rail News: Federal Legislation & Regulation Schumer calls on USDOT to reconsider sleep apnea rule The senator said a proposal for sleep apnea testing was a "common-sense approach to combating fatigue on our roads and rails." Photo – Schumer's office U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) yesterday called…
Hybrid OLE maintenance machine completes endurance testing 13 Feb 2018 AUSTRIA: The HTW 100 E³ hybrid motor tower vehicle developed by Plasser & Theurer for overhead line inspection and maintenance has been successfully tested in the Climate Wind Chamber at Rail Tec Arsenal in Wien. Launched at the IAF track technology fair in Münster last…
'Tomorrow’s Trains Today' funding announced 12 Feb 2018 UK: The winners of £3·5m of government funding under the ‘First of a Kind: Demonstrating Tomorrow’s Trains Today’ innovation programme were announced by Transport Minister Jo Johnson on February 12. T The FOAK competition is part of the Department for Transport’s wider Accelerating Innovation in Rail scheme.…
Hydrogen train to be tested in the UK by 2020 12 Feb 2018 UK: The Rail Safety & Standards Board is working with Alstom with the aim of piloting a hydrogen powered train in late 2019 or early 2020, RSSB Chief Executive Mark Phillips said on February 12. Philips was responding to a speech by…
Rail News Home Federal Legislation & Regulation 2/12/2018 Rail News: Federal Legislation & Regulation Coalition seeks Northeast Corridor funding in Trump's infrastructure plan As President Donald Trump releases his long-awaited infrastructure plan today, a coalition of Northeast business leaders are calling on the president and Congress to provide federal resources to repair and upgrade the…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal investigators are still looking at how CSX railway crews routed an Amtrak train into a parked freight train in Cayce, South Carolina, last weekend. But even if CSX should bear sole responsibility for the accident, Amtrak will likely end up paying crash victims' legal claims with public money. Amtrak pays for…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal investigators are still looking at how CSX railway crews routed an Amtrak train into a parked freight train in Cayce, South Carolina, last weekend. But even if CSX should bear sole responsibility for the accident, Amtrak will likely end up paying crash victims' legal claims with public money. Amtrak pays for…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal investigators are still looking at how CSX railway crews routed an Amtrak train into a parked freight train in Cayce, South Carolina, last weekend. But even if CSX should bear sole responsibility for the accident, Amtrak will likely end up paying crash victims' legal claims with public money. Amtrak pays for…