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An I-20 passenger rail will soon become a reality. Amtrak and the Southern Rail Commission submitted a $14 million Federal-State Partnership for Intercity Rail Grant for the extension of the I-20 Crescent passenger service. The Crescent train currently runs between New York and New Orleans. However, the expansion of the route will run service between Meridian, Mississippi, Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas with terminals in municipalities between the cities, namely Vicksburg, Mississippi, Monroe, Ruston and Shreveport. Monroe Mayor Friday Ellis, Southern Rail Commission Chairman Knox Ross and Amtrak Vice-President of Network Development Nicole Bucich made the announcement Friday at a press conference in Downtown Monroe. "This extension will bring passenger rail service to newly served communities along I-20 in Louisiana and Mississippi bringing more trains to more people," Bucich said. "In Jackson specifically, this means opportunities between this new service and our existing [service in the] City of New Orleans to and from Memphis and Chicago as well as other modes of transportation." More: The new service will also connect with the Texas Eagle train, which travels between Chicago and San Antonio, through cities from Austin to Dallas, as well as the Heartland Flyer, which connects Oklahoma City to Fort Worth. The Crescent extension will profit the state $70 million annually and is set to produce 80 jobs. The grant applied through the Federal Railroad Administration will cover...

Henrietta Wildsmith, Shreveport Times Shreveport hosted a press conference Wednesday with officials from Amtrak and the Southern Rail Commission (SRC) to discuss a new mode of transportation for Northwest Louisiana travelers. "It's something that will benefit all of us tremendously," Mayor Tom Arceneaux said. Amtrak has applied for a federal planning fund to connect New York City, Washington, D.C. and Atlanta, Georgia, with Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, via communities in central Mississippi, north Louisiana and east Texas by extending the long-distance Amtrak Crescent train from Meridian, Mississippi. In an effort to receive those federal funds an I-20 Corridor Council was formed to re-establish passenger rail service along the Interstate 20 Corridor. This particular route has not traveled through Shreveport since 1968 and is expected to bring $70 million in economic impact. The grant request for the I-20 extension is for more than $14 million. "This will allow us to take the first step to the service that we're talking about... to extend service from Meridian over to the Fort Worth market," Todd Stennis, director of Government Affairs for Amtrak, said. During the news conference, officials were unable to give an exact timeline on when this extension would be completed. "It's premature to say when at this hour," Stennis said. "What matters right now is that we get this planning grant." "Five to seven years... second term," Arceneaux said. Makenzie Boucher is a reporter with t...

• العربية • Azərbaycanca • বাংলা • Bân-lâm-gú • Башҡортса • Беларуская • भोजपुरी • Български • Català • Čeština • Deutsch • Eesti • Español • Euskara • فارسی • Français • Galego • गोंयची कोंकणी / Gõychi Konknni • 한국어 • Հայերեն • Hrvatski • Ido • Bahasa Indonesia • Íslenska • Italiano • עברית • ಕನ್ನಡ • ქართული • Қазақша • Kurdî • Кыргызча • മലയാളം • मराठी • მარგალური • مصرى • Bahasa Melayu • Монгол • Nederlands • नेपाली • नेपाल भाषा • 日本語 • Олык марий • Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча • ਪੰਜਾਬੀ • پنجابی • Polski • Português • Română • Русский • Саха тыла • Shqip • Sicilianu • سنڌي • Slovenščina • Српски / srpski • Suomi • Svenska • Tagalog • தமிழ் • Татарча / tatarça • ไทย • ತುಳು • Türkçe • Тыва дыл • Українська • اردو • Tiếng Việt • 吴语 • 粵語 • 中文 In the late 1760s, the A system was introduced in which unflanged wheels ran on L-shaped metal plates– these became known as Meanwhile, These two systems of constructing iron railways, the "L" plate-rail and the smooth edge-rail, continued to exist side by side until well into the early 19th century. The flanged wheel and edge-rail eventually proved its superiority and became the standard for railways. Cast iron used in rails proved unsatisfactory because it was brittle and broke under heavy loads. The dross. The softness and dross tended to make iron rails distort and delaminate and they lasted less than 10 years. Sometimes they lasted as little as one year under high traffic. All these developments in the production of iron eventually led to ...

Show Less railroad, mode of land After the first crude beginnings, railroad-car design took divergent courses in Throughout the world the great majority of freight cars for all rail gauges are built with four axles, divided between two trucks. Because of the layout constraints of some freight terminals, several European railroads still purchase a proportion of two-axle vehicles, but these have a much longer wheelbase and hence a considerably larger load capacity than similar cars in the past. Some bulk mineral cars in One type of vehicle that is virtually extinct is the caboose, or brake-van. With modern air-braking systems, the security of a very long train can be assured by fixing to its end car’s brake pipe a telemetry device that continually monitors pressure and automatically transmits its findings to the locomotive Before In Europe and North America open cars for bulk mineral transport are generally designed for rapid discharge, either by being bodily rotated or through power-operated doors in the floor or lower sides of their hopper bodies. Modern North American four-axle

Estimated nationwide availability of freight rail. a, The average daily number of freight trains traveling from each state in the contiguous United States into each grid operating region, or ISO. The width of the gray line increases with the number of daily freight trains. Most ISOs already have daily trains moving between them; for ISOs without direct connections, many have shared secondary connections (for example, California and New York, with their own ISOs, are connected by Illinois). b, Average estimated time to move trains between ISOs; including scheduling time, moving trains between ISOs would probably take 1–6 days. The red lines represent the boundaries of each ISO. The blue shading depicts the estimated travel time to each ISO from each state. Basemaps provided by the US Census Bureau. Credit: Nature Energy (2023). DOI:10.1038/s41560-023-01276-x The U.S. electric grid faces simultaneous, evolving pressures. Demand for power from the grid is increasing as people adopt electric cars and building energy is transitioned from gas to electricity. At the same time, climate change is driving more extreme weather. Events like the 2020 heat wave that led to rolling blackouts in California are relatively infrequent, but they are happening more often—and utilities need to be ready for them. New research points to a flexible, cost-effective option for backup power when trouble strikes: batteries aboard trains. A study from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley N...

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SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - Travelers in the ArkLaTex could have a new mode of transportation in the future. On Wednesday, June 7, officials with Amtrak, the Southern Rail Commission (SRC), and the City of Shreveport held a briefing to update the public on the I-20 corridor passenger railway project. Amtrak has now officially applied for federal funding from the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to connect New York, Washington, D.C., and Atlanta to the Dallas-Fort Worth area via communities in central Mississippi, north Louisiana, and east Texas. “This is the closest the ArkLaTex has ever come to having a real chance for the east and west service across Louisiana, Mississippi over to Texas,” Marc Margliari, spokesperson for Amtrak, said. This project would extend the existing long-distance Amtrak Crescent train from Meridian, Miss. This would be the first time Amtrak has extended a long-distance railway in decades. “The goal here is to improve the CPKC track, so we can ride a passenger train for at least one round trip without having any negative effect on freight service; that’s doable. In some parts, the railroad is already wide enough for second tracks. And in some parts, the railroad is wide enough to extend sidings,”Margliari added. This would be the first time Amtrak has extended a long-distance railway in decades. He says the grant will cover a number of things like project development and more. “It’ll take care of engineering and environmental clearanc...

A Operation Major operators Statistics 549,631,632 29million (Amtrak only) 10.3billion Freight 1.71trillion System length Total 160,141mi (257,722km) Main 1,435mm ( 4ft 8 + 1⁄ 2in) Features Longest tunnel Map Rail transportation in the United States consists primarily of The nation's earliest railroads were built in the 1820s and 1830s, Railroads continued to expand throughout the rest of the 1800s, eventually reaching nearly every corner of the nation. The nation's railroads were temporarily Railroads' fortunes began to change following the passage of the History [ ] The The first purpose-built common carrier railroad in the northeast was the :1–115 In 1835 the B&O completed a branch from Baltimore southward to Washington, D.C. :157 The Numerous short lines were built, especially in the south, to provide connections to the river systems and the river boats common to the era. In Louisiana, the Soon, other roads that would themselves be purchased or merged into larger entities, formed. The 1851–1900 [ ] By 1850, over 9,000 miles (14,000km) of railroad lines had been built. :Ch.V Railroad companies in the North and Midwest constructed networks that linked nearly every major city by 1860. Transcontinental railroad [ ] Many Canadian and U.S. railroads originally used various broad gauges, but most were converted to 4ft 8 + 1⁄ 2in ( 1,435mm) by 1886, when the conversion of much of the southern rail network from 5ft ( 1,524mm) gauge took place. This and the standardization of co...

• العربية • Azərbaycanca • বাংলা • Bân-lâm-gú • Башҡортса • Беларуская • भोजपुरी • Български • Català • Čeština • Deutsch • Eesti • Español • Euskara • فارسی • Français • Galego • गोंयची कोंकणी / Gõychi Konknni • 한국어 • Հայերեն • Hrvatski • Ido • Bahasa Indonesia • Íslenska • Italiano • עברית • ಕನ್ನಡ • ქართული • Қазақша • Kurdî • Кыргызча • മലയാളം • मराठी • მარგალური • مصرى • Bahasa Melayu • Монгол • Nederlands • नेपाली • नेपाल भाषा • 日本語 • Олык марий • Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча • ਪੰਜਾਬੀ • پنجابی • Polski • Português • Română • Русский • Саха тыла • Shqip • Sicilianu • سنڌي • Slovenščina • Српски / srpski • Suomi • Svenska • Tagalog • தமிழ் • Татарча / tatarça • ไทย • ತುಳು • Türkçe • Тыва дыл • Українська • اردو • Tiếng Việt • 吴语 • 粵語 • 中文 In the late 1760s, the A system was introduced in which unflanged wheels ran on L-shaped metal plates– these became known as Meanwhile, These two systems of constructing iron railways, the "L" plate-rail and the smooth edge-rail, continued to exist side by side until well into the early 19th century. The flanged wheel and edge-rail eventually proved its superiority and became the standard for railways. Cast iron used in rails proved unsatisfactory because it was brittle and broke under heavy loads. The dross. The softness and dross tended to make iron rails distort and delaminate and they lasted less than 10 years. Sometimes they lasted as little as one year under high traffic. All these developments in the production of iron eventually led to ...