Items Tagged with 'train'

After decades of planning, setbacks and challenges, the 16-mile, 21-station Purple Line light rail system is set to finish over, under and through Washington, D.C.'s northern suburbs, offering the populated area a new transit link.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority plans to electrify about 11.5 miles of track.

Construction of Rome’s automated Metro C transit line reached a milestone in late December, with the opening of a 2-mile underground extension from the system’s temporary terminus at San Giovanni into the city center.

Detroit moves to reconnect its iconic Michigan Central Station to regional and cross-border rail networks under a new $40-million state-federal initiative.

What's happening in the Mountain States region.

After a dozen years that included a successful tunneling feat and an unusual arrangement for station work, a 1.7-mile, $1.9-billion extension of San Francisco’s Central Subway wrapped up this month.

The 2023 Oscar awards featured a Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor who reinvented themselves and came back for a second act. The tunnel-boring machine Angeli is the LA performer that did much the same, but entirely underground.

Rutgers Tube, which carries the F subway line under the East River between Manhattan’s East Broadway station and the York Street station in Brooklyn, was the last Metropolitan Transportation Agency under-river crossing to be rehabilitated after Superstorm Sandy hit the New York City area in 2012.

Elements from abroad were critical to the $1.6-billion conversion of the James A. Farley Post Office building into the 255,000-sq-ft Train Hall at Penn Station.

A one-acre, 92-ft-high glass canopy roof and skylight atop New York City’s Moynihan Train Hall was always going to be a centerpiece of the $1.6-billion transit center that expands capacity for the bustling Pennsylvania Station across the street in midtown Manhattan.