Category: News
Longest rail tunnel; but much work remains
It’s billed as the world’s longest tunnel – 35.4 miles long — and it’s been 60 years in the planning and digging. It’s in Switzerland. The Gotthard Base Tunnel is the backbone of a proposed high-speed freight and passenger rail network through Europe, according to vario [...]Light rail to LAX moving forward
A new light rail line from downtown Los Angeles to Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) is moving closer to reality thorough a $546 million federal loan to Los Angeles County, reports the Associated Press. The almost nine-mile line is expected to create 5,000 jobs; and, eq [...]Seimens looking for Florida HSR contracts
Siemens, an international engineering firm with its U.S. headquarters in Washington, D.C., and plants throughout the United States, is hungry to build high-speed train sets for a proposed Florida high-speed rail line. Tampa Bay online (tbo.com) reports that Siemens, which has [...]School-bus violence: We know it too well
UTU bus members know the violence aboard school buses all too well. The latest shocking outbreak occurred on Long Island, N.Y., last week, when a 14-year-old boy was beaten aboard a school bus over allegations he is gay, according to Longislandpress.com. The UTU is working wi [...]Good times continue to roll for railroads
For the first 40 weeks of this year – through Oct. 9 – rail carloadings are up almost 10 percent over last year, and intermodal loadings have soared by more than 15 percent, according to data from the Association of American Railroads. For the week ending Oct. 9, intermodal w [...]