Railroad News

Normally, operational and maintenance expenses along the Metro-North rail line are split between the state Department of Transportation and the New York-based Metropolitan Transportation Authority .

Canadian Pacific Rail locomotives sit idle at the company's Port Coquitlam yard east of Vancouver in this file photo.

You can't see it, but you can definitely hear it. It is that loud, blaringly obvious sound that signifies a train is near.

Activists are charging the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority with violating the civil rights of a half-million bus riders, 75 percent of them black or Latino, by cutting 1 million hours of bus service and raising monthly bus passes to $72 while giving away public funds to rail developers and contractors.

Because of the large demand for tickets on the July 20 Union Pacific Railroad special, the lottery system will determine purchasers.

The pedestrian crosswalk between the Metra platforms for north and south bound rail traffic at the East Lake Forest Train Station was removed Saturday by the Union Pacific Railroad, according to a spokesperson for the railroad and a new release from the City.

Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Austin, Texas, rehired Cornerstone Advisors as investment consultant for its defined benefit pension plan and three 401 plans, according to a contract posted on procurement website Onvia DemandStar.

Tony Caribaltes is an openly gay businessman in Jacksonville. He said the city's attitude toward gay people is improving.

A new railroad bridge to replace the viaduct that collapsed in 2012 over Shermer Road could be in place by the end of the this year, under an expedited schedule recently released by Union Pacific Railroad , according to a village news release.

With a booming Mexico-based arm and packing a sales increase of 48 percent through 2016, no railroad may be more poised to be taken over than Kansas City Southern, Bloomberg reports.

Sometimes it seems there's a deliberate attempt by bureaucrats to use language as off-putting as possible with the purpose of creating a wall of boredom that only the most determined or demented will take the time to penetrate.

Investigators say it's too soon to know what caused a commuter train to derail Friday, injuring 70 people when it slammed into another train heading in the opposite direction.

Canadian Pacific Railway is certainly topical. The subject of activist investor Bill Ackman's 2012 reorganization and now run by Ackman-backed legendary railroader Hunter Harrison, the stock has gone nowhere but up since Harrison was put in office.

The former General Motors Powertrain site here could get a marketing push through a CSX program to promote development at rail-accessible sites.

Several people were removed from a New Jersey Transit bus shortly after midnight Friday while authorities checked out a suspicious bag left in the cargo hold, police said.

Grupo TMM reported a net loss of 165.6 million Mexican pesos in the first quarter of 2013, compared with a net loss of $11.3 million in the first quarter of 2012.

Two Metro-North Railroad trains have collided on a stretch of track near Fairfield, Conn., causing a "major derailment" and "preliminary reports of injuries," according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority .

The railroad is poised to boost sales by 48 percent through 2016, faster than every peer for whom estimates are available, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Kansas City Southern has a new, high-visibility stop: the S&P 500 stock index. The railway company is moving up from the S&P MidCap 400.

New Jersey Transit has announced new rail schedules that will take effect next month to accommodate an Amtrak project on the Northeast Corridor.