Desire for travel on Amtrak Mardi Gras Service trains remains strong across Coastal Mississippi between New Orleans and Mobile, Alabama, as the locally sponsored twice-daily service celebrates its first anniversary.
Amtrak officially reopened East River Tunnel Line 2 this week, completing the first major phase of the ERT Rehabilitation Project and providing key safety and reliability improvements for thousands of daily Amtrak, Long Island Rail Road, and NJ Transit customers.
The Federal Railroad Administration is allocating $5.3 billion to rail projects across the U.S. that will enhance safety, upgrade critical infrastructure, and purchase new trainsets for Amtrak.
The Federal Railroad Administration has awarded Amtrak two grants in support of the development of a new Midwest Maintenance Facility and to make vital bridge and viaduct repairs.
Rail passengers traveling on the Northeast Corridor between Washington and Baltimore will see increased construction activity at the B&P Tunnel Replacement Program site as Amtrak’s tunneling contractor prepares to launch the first of two tunnel boring machines in 2028.
Amtrak will begin a major rehabilitation of the nearly century-old Dock Bridge in New Jersey after awarding construction and project management contracts for the work.
The Gateway Development Commission Board of Commissioners has approved a change order to the Hudson River Ground Stabilization Project contract that will add the removal of roughly 500 submerged wooden piles, left from the demolition of Pier 68, to the project’s original scope of work.
A federal judge found Monday that the Trump administration’s decision to halt funding for the Gateway tunnel project ran afoul of the law and permanently barred it from freezing the grants again.
In a joint statement on Friday, NJ Transit President & CEO Kris Kolluri and Amtrak President Roger Harris said the two agencies are moving forward with initial construction for the Sawtooth Bridges Replacement Project.