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Feds: Billions More to Improve Northeast Corridor
The Federal Railroad Administration has issued a Notice of Funding Opportunity that makes available over $2 billion in Federal-State Partnership for Intercity Passenger Rail Program funding for projects on the Northeast Corridor.
Balfour Beatty: Caltrain Electrification Substantially Completed
Balfour Beatty has achieved substantial completion on the Caltrain Electrification project, the first undertaking in North America in which diesel trains and their infrastructure components are transitioned to an electrified system.
Railroad History
A Look at Cardiff’s Butetown Branch Line
The Butetown branch line is a roughly one-mile-long rail line in the Welsh capital city of Cardiff.
A Closer Look at the Camp Creek Train Wreck of 1900
June 23, 1900, was a rainy evening, as Southern Railway locomotive number 7, with a few coaches and a Pullman sleeper car in tow, journeyed from Macon, Georgia, to Atlanta.