Several trains running on Amtrak corridors outside the Northeast Corridor (NEC) have been cancelled, and the future of other trains is uncertain, due to removal from service of all Horizon…

In this series, we have taken a detailed look at the concept of through-running for regional railroads operated by transit providers and serving a major city, railroads that were formerly…

So far in this series, we examined the concept of through-running for local “transit railroads” that serve a city’s downtown core and the suburban areas that surround it. The idea…

First of a Series: July 17, 2023 was a beautiful sunny summer day in Rockhill Furnace, Pa., a town that is not located anywhere near a passenger train. Huntingdon, on…

In the previous article in this series, we examined plans for through-running between different railroads serving Penn Station, but not a different type of through-running: trains running through Midtown Manhattan…

This nation, and most of the world, recently marked five years since much of life as we knew it essentially shut down because of the sudden proliferation of the COVID-19…

California’s High-Speed Rail (CAHSR) project is under attack from the U.S. Department of Transportation again. On Feb. 20, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy called for an investigation of the project, which…

RAILWAY AGE, MARCH 2025 ISSUE: Denver Regional Transportation District (RTD) represents an impressive success story for rail transit.

The big buzz and bigger controversy around Texas during the past several years has been a proposal by a company called Texas Central to build and operate a high-speed rail…

The future of the controversial Congestion Pricing toll for vehicles entering the downtown and Midtown areas of Manhattan is in court once again. After nearly a dozen cases filed in…

On Jan. 4, the last of what started as nearly a dozen court battles over Congestion Pricing in Manhattan seemed essentially over. There were still a few issues to be…

On the 46th day since the congestion toll for vehicles entering the portion of Manhattan south of 60th Street went into effect, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy took the first…

The original Pennsylvania Station New York opened for service in 1910 and lasted a mere 53 years. It was a magnificent edifice, reminiscent of the grandeur of the greatest structures…

“The Lost Subways of North America: A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been.” Written and illustrated by Jake Berman. University of Chicago Press, 2023. Hardcover,…

Throughout this series so far, I have looked at the concept of through-running as applied or envisioned in several different cities: Philadelphia, Toronto and Los Angeles. It was not applied…

It has now been 30 days since the Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority (TBTA) started collecting Congestion Pricing tolls on vehicles that enter Manhattan south of 60th Street for the…

On April 29, 2016, the Rail Users’ Network (RUN) held a conference in Boston with the theme: “Who’s Looking Out for You? The State of Rail Advocacy in New England.”…

Los Angeles Union Station caused a sensation when it opened in 1939. For first-time visitors to the City of Angels who alight from an Amtrak train there, it still does.…

In the previous article in this series, we took a close look at SEPTA’s through-running operation in and around Philadelphia, both its challenging start and its status today, as the…

“The great cities of the world have their trains running through the urban core. They include London, Paris, Berlin, and Philadelphia, but not New York.” So says George Haikalis, who…