WASHINGTON — Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority officials met with members of the Federal Transit Administration, National Transportation Safety Board and the Tri-State Oversight Committee and walked them through preliminary information related to a Nv. 29 collision of two trains in the West Falls Church Rail Yard.
The meeting was called by Metro and was a [...]

WASHINGTON — Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Police are investigating a preliminary report of an individual who was pushed into the side of a Red Line train.
The train was stopped and servicing the platform at the Gallery Place/Chinatown Metrorail station at about 3:35 p.m. today, Nov. 30, at the time of the incident. The train [...]

WASHINGTON — Metro officials were investigating a report that someone was struck by a Red Line train at the Gallery Place-Chinatown Metrorail station at about 3:35 p.m. today, Nov. 30.
The train was headed in the direction of Shady Grove, officials said.
Following the incident, Red Line trains were sharing one track — also known as single-tracking [...]

NEW YORK — The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has reopened the northbound side of the Cortlandt Street R/W subway station. The station is located next to the Century 21 department store, the Millennium Hotel and the World Trade Center site.
“Today we celebrate a significant step forward in the rebuilding of Lower Manhattan,” MTA Chairman and [...]

WASHINGTON — The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority has agreed to pay a $200,000 fine to settle a six-year-old violation of the Clean Water Act.
The violation was caused by the accidental discharge of acidic water from a rail car hand-wash operation to the sanitary sewer system at its Branch Avenue Rail Yard rail car washing [...]

WASHINGTON — A six-car Metrorail train struck the rear of a parked six-car train at West Falls Church Rail Yard. The collision happened at 4:27 a.m. today, Nov. 29.
Three employees sustained minor, non life-threatening injuries and were taken to a nearby hospital where they were treated and released. No customers were on board the trains. [...]

WASHINGTON — A six-car Metrorail train struck the rear of a parked train inside West Falls Church Rail Yard. The collision happened at 4:27 a.m. today, Nov. 29. Three employees sustained minor, non life-threatening injuries and were taken to a nearby hospital.

MONTREAL –CN engineers in Canada started striking after negotiations between the railroad and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) ended Nov. 27 without an agreement on a new labor contract.
Locomotive engineers will remain on the job in the following CN territories because of separate collective agreements: northern Alberta, parts of northern and eastern Ontario, northern [...]

MONTREAL — Negotiations between CN and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) ended this evening, Nov. 27, with no agreement on a new labour contract, the railroad said.
CN and the TCRC had resumed negotiations earlier in the day with the assistance of federal mediators in an attempt to reach a settlement. CN now expects the [...]

CALGARY — Canadian Pacific and Natural Resources Canada have partnered on a biodiesel fuel pilot project under the National Renewable Diesel Demonstration Initiative, announced Lee Richardson, a member of Parliament for Calgary Centre.
“The Government of Canada is working closely with industry partners like Canadian Pacific to support the use of renewable diesel in the Canadian [...]