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Showing posts with label passenger rail. Show all posts
Showing posts with label passenger rail. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 12, 2023

U.S. rail gets an infusion of cash from Maine to Alaska; projects will include new or improved tracks in rural areas

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Department of Transportation map via Route Fifty Almost every state will receive federal money to build or improve its passenger rail, repor...
Thursday, July 29, 2021

What's in the bipartisan infrastructure bill? How's it funded?

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What's in the bipartisan infrastructure bill pending in the Senate? The Wall Street Journal reports : "According to the White House...
Friday, April 17, 2020

Quick hits: Amtrak gets $1 billion, some for rural; dispatches from rural hospitals, Appalachia; Ken Ward profiled

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Here's a roundup of stories with rural resonance; if you do or see similar work that should be shared on The Rural Blog, email us at he...
Friday, July 19, 2019

Quick hits: Amtrak gets backlash for proposed cuts in rural routes; 'Stranger Things' gets 1980s newspaper wrong

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WSJ graphic shows Amtrak lines and the one a reporter took. Here's a roundup of stories with rural resonance; if you do or see simi...
Tuesday, May 02, 2017

Spending bill has rural resonance: keeps post offices open, funds parks, Amtrak, other programs

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Post office in Bon Air, Ala . The $1 trillion spending package drafted for passage by Congress this week includes funding for several r...
Thursday, March 23, 2017

Trump's budget could end Amtrak in 23 states

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President Trump's budget calls for a 13 percent cut—$2.4 billion—to the U.S. Department of Transportation , including eliminating subsi...
Thursday, February 23, 2017

Rural Texas landowners on route of proposed bullet train say it mostly only benefits urban areas

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Dallas Morning News graphic: Population growth along proposed bullet train route. For an interactive version click here . A proposed 240...
Tuesday, January 31, 2017

West Virginia official fears decline in coal will lead to permanent closure of Appalachian rail lines

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Associated Press photo One Appalachian official fears a continued decline in coal could lead to a permanent loss of rail lines to the r...
Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Amtrak plan to speed up travel between N.Y. and Boston causing concern in rural towns

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A $120 million federal plan to speed up Amtrak travel between New York and Boston isn't going over well in rural towns in Connecticut an...
Friday, November 25, 2016

Lack of safety measures at railroad crossings remains a concern and risk in many rural areas

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A deadly crash at a railroad crossing last week in rural Texas (Caller-Times photo by Courtney Sacco) A lack of safety lights and arms ...
Monday, November 09, 2015

Train derailment dumps 18,000 gallons of ethanol into Mississippi River in rural town

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More than 18,000 gallons of ethanol were spilled into the Mississippi River on Saturday when a BNSF Railway train derailed in rural Alma,...

Rural towns in Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico work together to save Amtrak's Southwest Chief

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"A group of small, sleepy towns in Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico banded together in the past three years" to save Amtrak 's ...
Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Railroads say that if year-end safety deadline is not extended expect some services to be halted

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The seven largest rail companies in the U.S. say that if the Dec. 31 deadline to install a new collision avoidance system is not extended, t...
Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Railroads that fail to meet year-end safety deadline could face $25,000 fine per day for each violation

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Railroads that fail to meet a year-end deadline to install a new collision avoidance system could be facing major fines from the Federal Rai...
Tuesday, March 17, 2015

California farmers and other landowners are obstacles for bullet train from L.A. to San Francisco

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California's bullet train is having a hard time getting on track. The state's $68 billion high-speed rail system, which is alread...
Friday, February 06, 2015

Fatal accidents at railroad crossing are declining; from more than 1,000 in 1978 to 231 in 2013

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Despite six deaths this week at a railroad crossing in southeastern New York, railroad crossings have become safer in recent years, with dea...
Thursday, January 15, 2015

Rural residents in Calif. and Texas say bullet trains will hurt property values, environment, wildlife

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Rural residents in California and Texas are less than thrilled about the prospect of bullet trains rumbling through their neighborhoods at h...
Monday, February 24, 2014

Amtrak asks Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico to help pay for track upgrades to keep historic route

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A piece of American history, along with the future of several rural towns in New Mexico, Colorado and Kansas, hang in the balance in a disp...
Monday, January 03, 2011

Rural Californians worry about impact of high-speed rail on farm land

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The stimulus package plan to bring high-speed railroads to the U.S. is generally considered to have the most impact on the urban areas they ...
Wednesday, March 31, 2010

North Carolina getting more passenger trains

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North Carolina, which had more rural residents than any other state but Texas in the 2000 census, is also blessed with several passenger rai...
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