FTA awards $55 million in New Starts funds for Honolulu light-rail project The Honolulu Rail Transit project will receive $55 million in New Starts funding from the Federal Transit Administration for the current fiscal year, two senators and two congressmen from Hawaii announced last week. The allocation is identical to the amount requested in President Barack Obama’s [...]

Norfolk Southern’s Office Car Special [OCS] made a return visit to CONWAY, PA today with NS Chief Executive Officer WICK MOORMAN aboard. Mr. Moorman was returning from BELLEVUE, OH where a major upgrade is being made to the former Nickel Plate yard there. The OCS stopped only for a crew change at CONWAY YARD before [...]

You say you’re a ‘typical model railroader’ with ‘unmatched’ diesels?  Here’s a contemporary photo that’s strictly ‘prototype.’ ROBERT A. SHOOK captured this Norfolk Southern 69Q ethanol train a few weeks ago just outside PITTSBURGH.  The lead unit is easily recognizable and has a heritage all its own. And that’s CSX power behind it, but the [...]

Nevada truck driver in deadly Amtrak crash had spotty driving record Associated Press RENO, Nev. – Workers wearing hazmat suits dug through burnt-out rail cars and twisted metal on Monday at the scene of a horrific collision between a tractor-trailer and an Amtrak train as new details surfaced about the spotty driving record of the [...]