A CANADIAN group is negotiating with the state of Maine in the hope of acquiring the Montreal Maine & Atlantic Railway (MM&A) which filed for bankruptcy on August 7 following the derailment and explosion at Lac-Megantic, Quebec, on July 6.
OKLAHOMA Department of Transportation and the United States Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) have launched the Tulsa-Oklahoma City Passenger Rail Corridor Investment Plan to evaluate the feasibility of launching passenger services between the state's two largest cities.
TRANSPORT Canada announced on July 23 that it will ban one-person train crews in response to the derailment and explosion of a freight train at Lac-Mégantic, Quebec on July 6, which killed at least 47 people.
THE LAUNCH of construction on the extension of the Los Angeles Metrolink commuter rail network to Moreno Valley and Perris has moved a step closer after a local environmental group dropped its lawsuit against the $US 232.7m project.
WATERLOO (Ontario) Regional Council has formally approved an agreement in coordination with Greater Toronto and Hamilton transit authority Metrolinx to acquire 14 low-floor LRVs from Bombardier.
THE governor of Maryland Mr Martin O'Malley announced on July 8 that the state will commit $US 280m for design work and land acquisition on the Washington DC Purple Line LRT project as part of a $US 650m transport funding package for Prince George's County.
GREATER Toronto and Hamilton area commuter rail operator Go Transit has announced plans to effectively double off-peak services on its Lakeshore East and Lakeshore West lines from June.
THE government of Monterey County, California, is considering a proposal to extend the state's successful Capitol Corridor inter-city passenger service south from San Jose to serve the town of Salinas.
AMTRAK is planning to formally request revisions to United States Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) safety standards to facilitate the introduction of standard lightweight high-speed trains, a move US rail advocates have sought for at least two decades.
CANADIAN National (CN) ended 2012 by completing its merger of the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway (EJ&E) into its Wisconsin Central (WC) subsidiary.