DMU: Fast Track to the Future of Rail?
Everything old is new again as the RDC is reinvented as a clean, quiet, self-propelled railcar.
Everything old is new again as the RDC is reinvented as a clean, quiet, self-propelled railcar.
France's TGV and Japan's Shinkansen bullet train are vying for a contract worth an estimated $12 billion for a railway between Beijing and Shanghai.
The endorsement is based on the system's capacity for moving more than 16,000 people per hour and its projected daily ridership of 42,500 by 2020.
Ridership was 40% higher than projected after a recent light rail expansion in Denver.
Valued at $96 million, the contract covers maintenance and services for 146 Bombardier-built bi-level commuter rail cars and 37 EMD-built F-59 locomotives.
Plainclothes police officers help keep crime down on railcars and at stations. They may be effective, but can they compare to uniforms when it comes to prevention?
Red Cars are back in service in San Pedro, Calif., nearly a half century after the original service closed down in 1958.
Under the administration’s plan, Amtrak would transition over time into three entities.
The TTA purchased land in the CSX right-of-way to be used for the operation of diesel multiple units planned for the regional rail system.
The measure would meet the first three years of Amtrak's five-year, $8 billion budget to operate its trains and repair the infrastructure of its heavily traveled line between Washington and Boston.
Completion of the first six-miles and delivery of 60 vehicles for the mostly elevated Neihu Line is anticipated in the summer of 2007.
SEPTA earned fourth place in the operator and second place in the maintainer competitions, garnering enough points to win the overall prize.
From nearly 200,000 people who rode the train daily after its opening, the numbers have dwindled to a daily average of 40,000 to 50,000 people.
More than $40 billion in projects across the country seeks $20 billion in federal funding; less than half of that is available under the most optimistic scenario. Can you say innovative financing?
The 566-mile stretch from Rostock to Cologne via Berlin will run once daily in each direction.
Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams had encouraged eclipse viewers to take mass transit to their destinations for safety and congestion relief.
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