Progressive Railroading Daily News July 30, 2019 Rail News: Short Lines & Regionals Pennsylvania rail authority logs carload increase in 2019’s first half The Pennsylvania Northeast Regional Railroad Authority (PNRRA) logged a 17 percent increase in carloads transported on its rail system in northeastern Pennsylvania during the first six months of 2019 compared with the …
Record rail freight for NE PA authority
Railway Age The Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2018. D-L Alco C425 2423 (ex-PRR 2423) is shown at Scranton following an anniversary excursion to the Delaware Water Gap in May. Railway Age photo by Stuart Chirls Record carloads and economic growth are going hand-in-hand in Lackawanna and Monroe Counties in Northeastern Pennsylvania. For …
Local freight railroad breaks record.
A local wheat and flour mill and the natural gas industry helped produce a record year for the regional freight railroad system that runs in Lackawanna and Monroe counties. The growth will require adding new tracks between Scranton and Carbondale to store freight cars. The Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad Co. carried a record 8,572 carloads of goods …
HOPE PERSISTS FOR NYC RAIL
If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere. But for Northeast Pennsylvanians, the more fundamental problem is simply getting to New York City. Driving to New York rarely is a joy ride due to congestion, coupled with the costs of bridge or tunnel tolls and parking. Buses are a reliable option but …
Solid growth displays value of rail agency
The regional rail authority’s 2014 traffic rate expanded by three times the national growth average, affirming its importance to industrial and commercial stability. The Northeast Regional Rail Authority’s Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad experienced a 13.6 percent increase in carloads. Nationally, the carload volume advanced by 4.5 percent, the largest growth rate since 2007. The local expansion in …
Rails connect area to history
Northeast Pennsylvania became an engine of the Industrial Revolution on the strength of the energy it produced in the form of coal and the railroads that carried it to markets. There was some neat historical symmetry in an announcement last week that a state grant of $1.3 million will enable the Northeast Regional Railroad Authority …
Project a gas
A $500,000 upgrade of the historic rail yard in Fell Twp., which was built in 1825 to help ignite the region’s coal boom, is a good example of the region’s new gas industry’s ability to boost overall economic development and of the growing importance of rail freight to the region. The project will make possible …
Top of wish list
Editor: At the Northeast Pennsylvania Economic Forum hosted by The Times-Tribune, Jerry Joyce suggested the federal stimulus package presented a unique opportunity for a transformational project. If our entire region adopted as its number-one priority the reinstitution of passenger rail service from Scranton through the Poconos to New York City, the propitious alignment we enjoy …
Put stimulus on right track
The biggest concern over use of the massive stimulus package signed last week by President Barack Obama is that some of the money will not go to jump-start the economy for the short-term or to sustain it for the long term. Mr. Obama himself issued a warning to big-city mayors that they must use their …
Take the Train to Conservation
Gasoline prices climb with the thermometer as summer approaches, while Congress fiddles with short- term, feel-good relief measures that will only encourage more driving and more demand for the long term. Congress should instead address fuel efficiency as a coherent national policy-one major piece of which should be restoration of an effective national passenger rail …