RAILWAY AGE JANUARY 2025 ISSUE: Should we welcome—or dread—2025?

It’s not an entirely new concept, but it has been gaining favor over the past three decades. It’s through-running: the concept of a regional railroad serving a metropolitan area routing…

On Sunday morning, Dec. 6, WNYC transportation reporter Stephen Nessen reported on a group of motorists who were poised at a toll collection point at midnight as Saturday turned into…

As reported in Part 18 of this series, it appeared that the TBTA (Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority) would start collecting congestion pricing tolls on Jan. 5 and sending the…

Congestion Pricing, the controversial plan to charge tolls for vehicles entering Manhattan south of 60th Street, came a step closer to implementation when two federal judges from the Southern District…

(With additional commentary by James M. Tilley, Vice Chair, The Aurora Group, and President, Florida Coalition of Rail Passengers). On Dec. 18, Railway Age Editor-in-Chief William C. Vantuono reported on…

Everyone who took a course in American History in high school learned that it was the railroads that tied the country together. We learned about President Abraham Lincoln’s campaign to…

Philadelphians and visitors to the city who ride the transit operated by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority (SEPTA) have had a wild ride lately, especially when it comes to the…

On Nov. 15, the Rail Users’ Network (RUN) held its Fall mini-conference. The online event bore the title “F.R.A. Corridor Grants – Boosting Economic Activity – the Rail Way!” It…

After “pausing” the implementation of a proposed Congestion Toll for vehicles entering the zone south of 60th Street in Manhattan on June 5, Gov. Kathy Hochul has again recommended that…

The Capitol Limited was a great train. It was the flagship train for the Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) during its initial 48-year incarnation and an Amtrak train for its second,…

Nobody seems to dispute that the subway system is an integral part of New York City, and that New York “wouldn’t be New York” without it. Yet there was a…

The long-fought conflict between Amtrak on one side and CSX, Norfolk Southern and the Port of Mobile on the other has ended. The final move on Amtrak’s part was to…

In a few short days, Amtrak’s Silver Star train between New York and Miami, will be no more. There will still be a train, which Amtrak will call the Floridian.…

New mileage on tourist railroads, especially those that can be reached by non-motorists as well as motorists, are very rare, but one has been providing service since last year, and…

Within the month, Amtrak will consign the Capitol Limited and Silver Star trains to history, while cutting the latter train off at Washington, D.C. and leaving its riders north of…

An online conference sponsored by the Rail Users’ Network (RUN) will feature efforts to bring new corridor-length passenger train routes to various parts of the nation through the FRA’s Corridor…

On July 30, Amtrak announced it was planning to tarnish the Silver Star, the train that has traveled between New York and Florida since 1939. It will throw its venerable…

This past summer, we reported in depth about the “fiscal cliff” that now confronts essentially the entire transit industry in the United States, due to the one-shot nature of COVID-19…

Throughout the spring, we reported on the slow but steady progress of the proposal to charge tolls for most vehicles entering the Central Business District of Manhattan, defined as the…