Roughly 100 people were killed on November 1, 1918, when a Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co. train crashed after taking a curve too fast underneath the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush and Ocean avenues.
The Port of Savannah’s Mason Mega Rail is North America’s largest on-dock rail facility, with daily rail departures from CSX and Norfolk Southern to inland markets.
The New Jersey Legislature passed the New Jersey Public Transportation Act of 1979 in July 1970, creating NJ Transit to “acquire, operate and contract for transportation service in the public interest.”
Amtrak rolled out the NextGen Acela, a fleet of high-speed trains operating along the Northeast Corridor between Washington, D.C., New York, and Boston, starting in 2025.