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First Cummins QSK95 engines shipped to Siemens Sacramento (CA) for installation in AAF Charger locomotives COLUMBUS, Ind. (Oct. 2, 2015) – Cummins Inc. (NYSE: CMI) announced today that the first production 95-liter, 16-cylinder QSK95 engine built to a rail specification has been shipped. The engine...

This article (about quiet zones) has a couple of small pictures of work installing a second track:
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All Aboard Florida has been selected as one of 13 international winners of Fast Company's fourth annual Innovation by Design Awards. The international competition honors companies for the most innovative and disruptive design solutions to today’s business. All Aboard Florida was selected for design...

The Federal Railroad Administration announced this month that the general route preferred by the project developer of a high-speed rail line between Dallas and Houston is indeed the best choice. Known as the “utility corridor,” it runs somewhat along high-voltage electrical transmission lines and c...

Three stations in South Florida will open months before the planned All Aboard Florida train makes its initial run to, and stop at, Orlando International Airport late in 2017.. Yet the Orlando leg looks to be the most lucrative of the 235-mile system, contends a recently released ridership study co...

All Aboard Florida (AAF) awarded Siemens a 30-year contract to maintain and service all aspects of the passenger railroad's trainsets. The maintenance work includes inspections, corrective and preventative maintenance, and provisioning of parts and labor. Siemens will perform the work at a new faci...

Incremental progress: All Aboard Florida is close to naming a contractor that will oversee the construction of the 35-mile Orlando leg of the $2.5 billion Miami-to-Orlando passenger rail corridor. The Coral Gables-based firm on June 29 expects to award a construction management contract that would i...

Texas Central Rlwy passes scrutiny from Libertarians (with mention of similar case of AAF project): The other major argument, as in Florida, is that there will inevitably be taxpayer subsidies, since HSR is almost never self-supporting from its passenger revenues (as the Reason report and many other...

A (little) more about the signalling contract, in general layman terms: New signaling: The entire rail corridor will get new signaling system — which Baker described as the “railroad equivalent of traffic lights” — to support both passenger rail and sister company Florida East Coast Railway’s freigh...

AAF selects signalling supplier: USA: Private inter-city service promoter All Aboard Florida has selected GE Transportation to supply signalling equipment for the 375 km corridor it plans to use between Miami and Orlando. GE Transportation said its sites in Melbourne and Jacksonville, Florida, would...

First railcars arrive on property: Two decades after the concept of bringing commuter rail service to the North Bay started gathering steam, the first set of trains operated by the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit authority pulled into the Cotati station Tuesday to cheers from hundreds of spectators. ...

Lots of video on youtube:
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Commuter rail is basically a local/regional option. This. However, the federal government should be working with state and local agencies to come up with a plan/standards that integrate local transport as seamlessly as posible with intercity/interstate rail passenger transport. But I don't expect s...

It is unclear where exactly the driver drove unto the tracks- was it at the designated grade crossing, or did he just randomly cut across the ROW somewhere else (it appears at least one side along the track is unfenced). The following quote from the LAT is telling: Investigators said they plan to ta...

Hopefully in the future commuter rail will allow those living in communities not served by AAF to take the train to a station that is, but that requires integrated scheduling, as well as frequent (or at least consistent) service all day Mon~Sun, not just in the morning and evening weekdays.