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CPKC locomotive 9375 in the railway’s red livery

22.08.2026

CPKC and IBEW Binding Arbitration Agreement Ends Strike

Brightline West groundbreaking ceremony in Las Vegas

22.08.2026

Brightline West Financing Deadline Moves to September 10

Overturned Union Pacific railcars after the Central El Paso derailment

22.08.2026

Four Union Pacific Train Derailments Hit Texas

LAX Automated People Mover train testing on the elevated guideway over Century Boulevard

17.08.2026

LAX’s 99%-Finished Train Has a Junk Bond Problem

USA: Every rail car for LAX's long-delayed airport train has been built and is already being tested — but the $1. 2 billion in bonds financing the project just got pushed deeper into junk territory, a warning sign that has little to do with construction and everything to do with an escalating dispute between the airport and its contractor.
Amtrak’s 14th Street Coach Yard in Chicago’s South Loop, with the city skyline in the background

17.08.2026

Amtrak Grant Clears Path for Ishbia’s Chicago Plan

USA: Railway Supply reported in March that Shore Capital was working to acquire Amtrak's 47-acre South Loop rail yard on pure speculation; the federal money that makes the move possible has now actually arrived, and Justin Ishbia's footprint in the area has grown even larger than first suggested.
Zed, a Columbian mammoth skull in the paleontology lab at the La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles

17.08.2026

LA Metro Revisits Its Ice Age Fossil Haul in New Video

USA: The mammoth, bison and giant sloth remains found beneath Wilshire Boulevard aren't new — LA Metro's paleontology team first showed them to reporters back in 2019.
Amtrak Southwest Chief at Kansas City Union Station at night

16.08.2026

US Railway News: FRA Splits $5.3bn Across 23 States

USA: This concise weekly review presents a selection of US railway news published from August 10 to August 16, 2026: federal funding awards, freight regulation and passenger service changes.
Stadler Invests €35M in Its Biel Steel Foundry

16.08.2026

Stadler’s 120-Year-Old Foundry Gets a €35M Overhaul

SWITZERLAND: A foundry that has been casting steel in Biel since 1905 — and has supplied components for rail vehicles worldwide ever since Stadler took it over in 2004 — is getting its first major modernization in decades, aimed at cutting waste by 80% while keeping every one of its 115 jobs.
Атрибут alt: Vande Bharat Express train on the Bengaluru–Ernakulam route

16.08.2026

Onam Rush Forces Vande Bharat to Double Its Coaches

INDIA: Railway Supply previously reported that the Bengaluru–Ernakulam Vande Bharat would double from 8 to 16 coaches; what wasn't yet clear was how badly that capacity was needed — waitlists on the route had already topped 100 passengers for one direction before the extra coaches even entered service.
An MBTA Haverhill Line commuter train at Haverhill Station, Massachusetts

16.08.2026

MBTA Wins $140M to Double-Track Haverhill Line

USA: The MBTA's most single-tracked commuter line — long blamed for some of its worst delays — is getting nearly $140 million to fix exactly that, eight months after the agency walked away from a different, more contested plan for the same corridor.
CTA Tests Portable VR Simulator for Train Operators

16.08.2026

CTA Pilots a Portable VR Simulator for Rail Crews

USA: The Chicago Transit Authority has a hard problem to solve: how do you let train operators practice for a brake fault, a signal failure or a snowstorm without waiting for one to actually happen on a live train? CTA's answer is a portable virtual-reality simulator now heading into a one-year pilot.
A Union Pacific freight locomotive hauling autorack cars

16.08.2026

Shippers Ask STB to Reject UP-NS Merger Outright

USA: Six major rail-customer organizations aren't asking regulators to scrutinize the proposed Union Pacific–Norfolk Southern merger more closely — they're asking the Surface Transportation Board to kill it now, before a full review even begins.
India’s first Vande Bharat-based freight electric multiple unit during trial runs

16.08.2026

India’s First Freight Vande Bharat Hits 145 km/h

INDIA: India's first Vande Bharat-based freight train reached 145 km/h on the very first day of its trial run — a speed few of the country's own passenger expresses can match, let alone conventional freight, which typically tops out at 60-70 km/h.
KSR Bengaluru–Ernakulam Vande Bharat Express at Palakkad Junction in Kerala

16.08.2026

Dead Viper Found in Vande Bharat Seat in Kerala

INDIA: A passenger settling in for a family trip to Coimbatore found something unexpected waiting near his seat on the Ernakulam–Bengaluru Vande Bharat Express — a dead Russell's viper, one of India's most venomous snakes.
Redfern railway station platforms and overhead wiring in Sydney

16.08.2026

Sydney Wires Fail a Third Time in 15 Months

AUSTRALIA: Overhead wires came down onto a Sydney Trains service for at least the third time in 15 months on Friday evening, trapping passengers between Redfern and Erskineville — and this time, officials say it wasn't the wires themselves that failed.