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Year: 2019

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MARTA Board Votes in Favor of Amendment Supporting Bonding Capacity and Expansion Plans

December 21, 2019 Railfanning.org News Wire
The amendment outlines jurisdictional roles and responsibilities relating to the development of the MARTA system. It also ratifies the extension of the full penny sales tax levy through 2057, which the Georgia General Assembly approved in 2015.

Amtrak

Amtrak to Continue Work at Penn Station in 2020

December 21, 2019 Railfanning.org News Wire
Amtrak plans to continue its Infrastructure Renewal Program at New York Penn Station throughout Winter 2020, the railroad announced.

History

Outrage on the New Jersey Railroad

December 6, 2019 Todd DeFeo
When Patrick Lane boarded the 6:20 p.m. New Jersey Railroad train from Jersey City on November 29, 1869, he had no idea what fate awaited him.

FRA

FRA: Majority of Railroads Operating or Testing PTC Systems

December 3, 2019 Railfanning.org News Wire
The majority of the 42 railroads subject to the statutory implementation requirement are operating PTC systems in revenue service or in advanced field testing, known as revenue service demonstration (RSD), the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) said.

History

A Deadly Explosion on the Memphis, Clarksville & Louisville

November 29, 2019 Todd DeFeo
Around 4 p.m. on February 10, 1870, locomotive No. 9, a Norris & Son-built 4-4-0 steam locomotive, was pulling a freight train over the Red River trestle roughly near Clarksville, Tenn., when tragedy struck.

Canadian National

CN Announces Recovery Plan Following Eight-Day Strike

November 28, 2019 Railfanning.org News Wire
CN has announced that it is implementing a recovery plan following the end of the eight-day long strike.

Secaucus Junction
Amtrak

Amtrak: Investments in Safety, Customer Experience Lead to Best Year on Record

November 26, 2019 Railfanning.org News Wire
Amtrak is citing investments in safety and customer experience as the driving force behind what it says was the best operating performance in its history.

Canadian National

CN Announces Tentative New Agreement with More Than 3,200 Employees

November 26, 2019 Railfanning.org News Wire
CN said it has reached a tentative new collective agreement with its more than 3,200 conductors and yard crews working on CN’s mainline and yards in Canada.

Canadian National

CN Meets Federal PTC Requirements on all 35 U.S. Subdivisions

November 25, 2019 Railfanning.org News Wire
CN said it has successfully met the federal requirement to operate Positive Train Control (PTC) on all 35 of its U.S. subdivisions required to be equipped with PTC.

History

1905 L&N Wreck Illustrates Just How Dangerous Cabooses Were

November 15, 2019 Todd DeFeo
The caboose was a dangerous place for railroad workers, and the train crew on a Louisville & Nashville near Clarksville, Tenn., learned this in September 1905.

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