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[ September 19, 2026 ] Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern Say More Than 500 Customers Back Merger Norfolk Southern
[ September 18, 2026 ] FRA Rule Allows Railroad to Decide Whether to Sound Horns at Stations Commuter Rail
[ September 18, 2026 ] Feds Drop Appeal That Sought to Block Funding for Gateway Tunnel Project Amtrak
[ September 18, 2026 ] Democrats Say FRA Isn’t Enforcing Its Own Waiver Rules FRA
[ September 18, 2026 ] Georgia Short-Line Operator Seeks Retroactive OK for Control it Already Exercises Short Line/Regional

Atlanta Council to Weigh Resolution Committing City to Full Beltline Light Rail

September 19, 2026 The Turntable

The Atlanta City Council is scheduled to consider a resolution on Monday supporting light rail along the full 22-mile Atlanta Beltline and calling for a detailed plan for how the city could build and pay for the system.

Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern Say More Than 500 Customers Back Merger

September 19, 2026 Railfanning.org News Wire

More than 500 customers have publicly supported the proposed merger of Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern, according to the railroads, which cited additional letters filed with the Surface Transportation Board.

FRA Rule Allows Railroad to Decide Whether to Sound Horns at Stations

September 18, 2026 The Turntable

The federal rules governing when a locomotive engineer sounds the horn have taken another turn.

Feds Drop Appeal That Sought to Block Funding for Gateway Tunnel Project

September 18, 2026 New Jersey Monitor

The federal government dropped an appeal that attempted to again block federal funding for the Gateway tunnel and other infrastructure projects in the region just weeks after asking a federal court to overturn a lower decision that found the funding freeze flagrantly violated law.

A southbound CSX Transportation train passes through Ringgold, Georgia, in early June 2018.

Democrats Say FRA Isn’t Enforcing Its Own Waiver Rules

September 18, 2026 The Turntable

Two senior House Democrats say the Federal Railroad Administration is not holding Class I railroads to the transparency rules attached to a safety waiver it granted them last year.

Georgia Short-Line Operator Seeks Retroactive OK for Control it Already Exercises

September 18, 2026 The Turntable

The Great Walton Railroad Company has asked federal regulators to retroactively authorize its control of a Georgia short line it has effectively run for a quarter-century without the required approval.

Amtrak, NJ Transit Start Final ‘Cutover’ Work to Transfer Service to New Portal North Bridge

September 17, 2026 Railfanning.org News Wire

Beginning Oct. 9, Amtrak and NJ Transit will perform critical work to transfer the final track from the 116-year-old Portal Bridge to the new Portal North Bridge over the Hackensack River.

Georgia Ports: Savannah Exports Up 4% in August

September 17, 2026 Railfanning.org News Wire

The Port of Savannah moved 529,523 twenty-foot equivalent container units in August, flat, down less than 1% from the same month last year.

CN and Amtrak Reach Agreements to Strengthen Passenger Rail Service and Safety

September 17, 2026 Railfanning.org News Wire

CN’s U.S. rail subsidiaries — Illinois Central Railroad Company and Grand Trunk Western Railroad Company — and Amtrak have reached agreements that they say should strengthen their partnership and support safe, reliable passenger and freight service on CN’s U.S. rail network.

CSX Files to Abandon Short Segment in Maryland

September 15, 2026 Railfanning.org News Wire

CSX Transportation has filed a verified notice of exemption to abandon a roughly 0.72-mile rail line between milepost BBR 6.89 and milepost BBR 7.61, on its Northeast Region, Baltimore Terminal Subdivision Division, in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.