Railway Transportation

Construction flaws found in parts of new Oceanside railroad bridge

2013-05-07 13:39:00

Sections of a new $40.6-million bridge near Oceanside that will serve one of the busiest rail corridors in the nation are being torn out and rebuilt due to flaws in the concrete. Officials for the San Diego Assn. of Governments, which is funding the...

Leimert Park Village deserves a rail station

2013-05-01 00:00:00

Two years ago, every one of the elected officials representing South Los Angeles — members of the City Council, the Legislature and Congress — joined in an unprecedented show of unity to call for the Crenshaw-to-LAX light-rail line to...

California bullet train groundbreaking faces new obstacles

2013-04-29 16:39:00

California's bullet train agency is facing a series of new regulatory and political problems that could jeopardize its July construction kickoff, which already has been delayed more than six months. The new challenges are coming from a private...

Train collides with transit bus in Pennsylvania; 1 dead, 10 hurt

2013-04-26 17:35:00

One woman died and 10 people were hurt Friday when a freight train collided with a rural transit bus in Evans City, Pa., about 25 miles north of Pittsburgh. The force of the impact threw the bus into a nearby ravine; passengers on the bus ranged in...

In Montana, ranchers line up against coal

2013-04-26 16:52:00

COLSTRIP, Mont. — Out in these windy stretches of cottonwood and prairie grass, not far from where Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer ran into problems at Little Bighorn, a new battle is unfolding over what future energy development in the West will...

Letters: Who should build California's bullet train?

2013-04-23 00:00:00

Re "Bullet train bid rules altered," April 19 Thanks to The Times for letting us know that a troubled bid led by Sylmar-based Tutor Perini might win the contract to build the first phase of California's high-speed rail system against much more...

A slow — yet energizing — boat to Hawaii

2013-04-21 00:00:00

LAHAINA, Hawaii — "Here, take this one," Elisa said, lifting an orchid lei from her shoulders and draping it on Laurel's. "Aloha." My wife, Laurel, and I were in the tender queue with Elisa, our "port shopping specialist," at Lahaina on Maui,...

Bullet train authority settles Central Valley environmental suit

2013-04-19 12:05:00

A lawsuit alleging that approval of the high-speed rail system’s first sections in the Central Valley violated state environmental laws was settled Thursday, eliminating a legal obstacle that could have delayed construction. A Sacramento County...

California high-speed rail bidding rules were changed

2013-04-18 20:10:00

State high-speed rail officials acknowledged Thursday that they changed their rules for selecting a builder for the bullet train's first phase in the Central Valley, a shift that subsequently made it possible for a consortium led by Sylmar-based Tutor...

Quentin Kopp, no longer on board this bullet train

2013-04-16 17:01:00

There's a short piece of Bay Area freeway, Interstate 380, named for Quentin Kopp, which is ironic considering that he's beaten the drum for public transit — specifically bullet trains — for years. But then again, he's always been a...

Brown wants China aboard California's high-speed rail project

2013-04-11 21:01:00

SHANGHAI — Gov. Jerry Brown's trade mission to China this week is intersecting with one of the most controversial issues of his governorship: California's $68-billion bullet train. The governor has staked part of his legacy on the rail network,...

California, China and railroads -- history pulls a switcheroo

2013-04-15 11:45:00

A century and some change ago, more than a quarter of a million Chinese lived in California, most of them men and many of them veterans of the Gold Rush, and of the mining and railroad boom that followed. They were barred from owning property and from...

Chartered in 1827, the Baltimore & Ohio was the first U.S. railroad to offer freight and passenger service to the general public; in its heyday, no rail line was more loved. From Baltimore, it extended west to Illinois, north to New York and south to Virginia (nearly 6,000 miles of track in all).

2013-04-16 00:00:00

Kid quotient: Children 8 and under will love learning about the railroad and pretending to be engineers. Fun factors: Choo Choo Blue Kid Zone, weekend stories and activities, Toddler Time, Dr. Coupler's Railroad Photorium.

2013-04-08 00:00:00

Westminster resident Jack Norris, left, is shown with Brad Smith, the former curator at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania. Norris presented his diary of experiences with the railroad to the museum

2013-03-31 19:10:00