CLEARANCE testing for the 10.6km second phase of Los Angeles Expo Metro Line Construction Authority's Expo Line light rail project began April 6, when an LRV operating under its own power ran west from Culver City and across the new bridge over Venice Boulevard.
AMTRAK's Cascades service between Portland and Eugene will end if Oregon's state legislature enacts the budget adopted by its Joint Ways and Means Committee last week, which proposes slashing funding for the daily state-backed service on the corridor.
ELECTRO-MOTIVE Diesel (EMD) has delivered the first 10 units from a batch of 19 SD70ACe six-axle diesel-electric locomotives ordered last year by Ferromex.
BROOKVILLE Corporation, United States, has delivered the first of two 70% low-floor Liberty LRVs for Dallas Area Rapid Transit's (Dart) 2.6km Downtown - Oak Cliff tram line, which is due to open on April 13.
THE American Public Transportation Association (Apta) says that 10.8 billion journeys were recorded on public transport services, including rail and bus, in the United States in 2014, the highest level in 58 years.
THE mayor of Ottawa Mr Jim Watson officially relaunched the city's O-Train commuter rail line as the Trillium Line on March 2, marking the completion of a $C 60.3m ($US 48.1m) project to upgrade the 8km diesel-operated line from Bayview to Greenboro.
DEFYING years of opposition from state and county officials, as well as resistance from some of its own members, Milwaukee Common Council approved the construction of a light rail in the city centre on February 10.
THE board of Californian commuter rail operator Caltrain has authorised the release of a design-build request for proposals (RFP) for the Peninsula Corridor Electrification Project (PCEP), the next step in the $US 1.5bn electrification of the 82km San Francisco – San Jose corridor.
THE board of Union Pacific Railroad (UP) approved the company's $US 4.3bn capital budget on February 5 and also voted to appoint Mr Lance Fritz as its new CEO with immediate effect.
WABTEC announced on February 4 that it has acquired US signalling contractor Railroad Controls from its parent company RCL Services Group for an undisclosed sum.