Railroad
Remind Virginia transportation leaders:
We want rail freight improvements & passenger service!
Thursday, November 14, 2013
Holiday Inn Staunton Conference Center
152 Fairway Lane
Staunton, VA 24401
Representatives from the CTB, VDOT, Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation (DRPT),… Continue reading
The 2013 Commonwealth’s Office of Intermodal Planning and Investment has released its Draft Virginia Multimodal Freight Plan which is now available for review through November 15, 2013.
This is the Commonwealth’s strategy to improve goods movement on its highway,… Continue reading
Oct. 14, 2013
Amtrak reports that Amtrak carried a record 31.6 million passengers in Fiscal Year 2013.
Danny Plaugher, executive director of Virginians for High Speed Rail, observed that “These great ridership numbers only prove the point that when given… Continue reading
On Wednesday evening, October 9, 2013, Virginia State Senator John Edwards, a long-time rail advocate, held another of his Town Hall Meetings to discuss passenger rail service to Roanoke. The session was held in the theater of the O.… Continue reading
Amtrak unveils new Electric Locomotives
Rich Pedroncelli/Associated Press
The Washington Post – Published: May 13, 2013, Associated Press
According to an article in the Washington Post, Amtrak is unveiling the first of 70 new locomotives at a plant… Continue reading
David Fos
ter (our Executive Director) wrote an insightful letter to the Editor of the Roanoke (VA) Times on Friday, September 6, 2013, extolling the advantages of increased intermodal freight rail services to improve the often overcrowded highways in southwest… Continue reading
Senator Mark Warner (D-VA)
Aug. 23, 2013
Apparently Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) would like to get more trucks off of Interstate I-81 and on to the parallel railroad.
Senator Warner was in Roanoke recently and, among other business Warner met… Continue reading
It appears that Rep. Duncan (R-TN), chair of the House Panel on Freight Transportation, agrees that it is the goal of almost everyone in transportation to emphasize rail and water transportation “a bit more,” as reported by the DC.… Continue reading
Virginia Rail passenger route
from Richmond to Bristol
DAVID CRIGGER / BRISTOL HERALD COURIER
The Bristol Herald Courier reports that the Virginia Statewide Rail Plan
could include route from Richmond through Lynchburg, Roanoke and end in Bristol.
Read… Continue reading
The Freight Panel of the House of Representatives is having its next hearing Friday, July 26 in New York City.
We have not heard if there will be any more hearings.
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