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Amtrak Pennsylvanian train passing Horseshoe Curve in Pennsylvania

25.08.2026

Second Daily Pennsylvanian Train Set for Mid-November

STM Azur train at Beaubien station on Montreal Metro’s Orange Line

24.08.2026

Montreal Metro’s 60th Anniversary Gets Four Song Maps

Brightline West groundbreaking ceremony in Las Vegas

22.08.2026

Brightline West Financing Deadline Moves to September 10

North Station commuter rail platform in Boston, one of two terminals the proposed rail link would connect

18.08.2026

Harvard Study: Rail Tunnel Could Replace $4.7B Project

USA: A century-old idea to connect Boston's two disconnected commuter rail terminals could do something more than cut commute times, according to a new Harvard Kennedy School study — it could make a separate $4.
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.
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.
Container stacks and gantry crane at the Appalachian Regional Port in Crandall, Georgia

16.08.2026

Georgia’s Appalachian Port Posts Record July

USA: Georgia's Appalachian Regional Port just posted its busiest July on record — an acceleration that comes weeks after Railway Supply reported the same inland terminal's full-year volume record for fiscal 2026.
Amtrak Northeast Regional train crossing the WALK Bridge over the Norwalk River in Connecticut

16.08.2026

New Haven Line Faces Five Weekend Service Cuts

USA: Riders on Connecticut's busiest commuter line should expect about 30% fewer seats than usual on five separate weekends this fall — and for two of them, electric trains will be swapped for diesel entirely while crews tear down 130-year-old bridge infrastructure.
Aerial view of the elevated CTA Green Line Austin station structure in Chicago

16.08.2026

CTA’s Austin Station Gets First Upgrade Since 1962

USA: A Chicago Green Line station that opened in 1899 and hadn't been touched since 1962 now has an elevator, an escalator and a wheelchair ramp — and with it, the Chicago Transit Authority has crossed the 75% mark for system-wide accessibility.
Front entrance of San Jose Diridon station in San Jose, California

16.08.2026

32,000 SJSU Students Get Free Bay Area Transit

USA: Starting this week, San José State students no longer have to choose which Bay Area transit agency they can afford to ride — a new Clipper BayPass gives an estimated 32,000 eligible students free, unlimited access to 24 operators at once, including BART and Caltrain.