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CTA Tests Portable VR Simulator for Train Operators

16.08.2026

CTA Pilots a Portable VR Simulator for Rail Crews

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

Existing CTA turnstiles and an accessible gate at Damen Green Line station in Chicago.

31.07.2026

CTA Seeks Modern Fare Gates for Chicago Rail Stations

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.
BART riders waiting on a platform as a train arrives at San Francisco International Airport station

16.08.2026

BART Board Responds to Grand Jury Oversight Report

USA: A civil grand jury looked past BART's well-documented budget gap and found something narrower but just as telling — the transit agency's own oversight bodies don't answer to each other the way BART's governing documents say they should.
Portland vs. Union Pacific Over Hazmat Cars at Fire Site

16.08.2026

Portland Presses Union Pacific Over Hazmat Rail Cars

USA: As demolition finally begins on Portland's fire-damaged Centennial Mills warehouse, a separate dispute has surfaced: the city says Union Pacific ran 13 rail cars carrying residual hazardous materials past the unstable building, despite the railroad's earlier promise to restrict such traffic through the collapse zone.
LiDAR Innovation Advances Rail Corridor Monitoring

16.08.2026

Brightline Cuts SoFlo Fares to $15 on Weekends

USA: Brightline is offering $15 one-way SMART fares between its five South Florida stations on weekends — the latest move in a fare strategy the operator has leaned on for months to keep short-haul ridership growing.
Five empty CSX railcars derailed in Worcester, Massachusetts on Aug. 14, caught live on a streaming rail camera. No injuries; cause under investigation.

16.08.2026

CSX Train Derails Five Cars in Worcester, Mass

USA: Five empty CSX railcars came off the tracks in downtown Worcester late Friday night — and a local streaming camera caught the whole thing on video.
TxDOT will use over $755 million in federal grants to eliminate 12 dangerous grade crossings across eight Texas counties, the largest single-state award nationwide.

16.08.2026

Texas Wins $755M to Eliminate 12 Rail Crossings

USA: Texas is getting more federal rail-safety money than any other state or local recipient in the country's latest funding round — over $755 million to eliminate 12 dangerous grade crossings from El Paso to Houston.
Amtrak Midwest Lincoln Service train leaving Chicago with a Siemens SC-44 Charger locomotive.

16.08.2026

FRA Awards $5.3B to Upgrade US Passenger Rail

USA: The Federal Railroad Administration is putting $5. 3 billion behind new Amtrak trainsets, a rebuilt Midwest maintenance base and hundreds of dangerous grade crossings — the largest single passenger-rail funding round of the year, spread across 23 states.
California high-speed rail signs consortium deal

14.08.2026

California High-Speed Rail trainset deadline

USA: California’s high-speed rail programme has completed 62 major structures and nearly 90 miles of Central Valley guideway, but the next delivery phase is now defined by harder integration dates: Package 2 track laying is anticipated to start on November 30, 2026, initial trainsets must be ready for dynamic testing by February 2030, and the project inspector general says financing must be secured by December 2027 to preserve the planned Merced–Bakersfield schedule.
Warren County backed the Scranton–New York passenger rail plan, but PennDOT says 2028 service is not feasible as federal Step 2 planning continues.

14.08.2026

Warren County Backs Scranton–New York Rail; PennDOT Says 2028 Service Is Not Feasible

UNITED STATES: Warren County has formally backed restoring passenger rail through Blairstown, but PennDOT says the Scranton–New York corridor has no confirmed opening timeline and that service in 2028 is not feasible under the current federal development path.
Amtrak trains waiting in Sunnyside Yard in Queens, New York

14.08.2026

Sunnyside Yard’s 12,000-Home Revival Still Has No Federal Commitment for Its $21 Billion Deck

USA: New York City is seeking more than $21 billion in federal grants to deck over Sunnyside Yard for 12,000 affordable homes, but months after the proposal was pitched to President Donald Trump, the project remains in talks with no confirmed federal funding commitment.
Aerial view of the Corcoran Highway grade separation over the future California high-speed rail alignment in Kings County

14.08.2026

California High-Speed Rail Opens 62nd Structure as Central Valley Build Shifts Toward Track Installation

UNITED STATES: The Corcoran Highway overpass has opened as the 62nd fully completed major structure on California’s 119-mile Central Valley high-speed rail construction segment, where track installation is scheduled to begin later in 2026.