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NC By Train, the state program that subsidizes Amtrak’s Piedmont and Carolinian trains, is surveying the public about rail service in North Carolina.
A train has been rededicated to the Royal Artillery at Salisbury Station. The locomotive, named Royal Artilleryman, was celebrated in Salisbury following an extensive overhaul. The ceremony was ...
SALISBURY — When the North Carolina Department of Transportation decided to remove the early morning and afternoon stop from the Salisbury train station in 2023, local officials said they felt ...
NC By Train, the state's intercity passenger rail service, has experienced record ridership in the last three years, most recently carrying almost 721,000 passengers in 2024.
WILKES-BARRE — Luzerne County Council approved a $615,000 purchase of the historic former train station in downtown Wilkes-Barre and litigation over outstanding debt from a rail line purchase.
NC By Train, the state program ... High Point, Salisbury and Kannapolis. Orthner said the state and Amtrak, ... The engine was unveiled at Raleigh Union Station on Friday, May 30, 2025.
Northern California’s Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) launches service to Windsor. Also, NC By Train celebrates 35 years of Carolinian and 30 years of Piedmont passenger rail service; and San ...
The lights inside Union Station glow at dusk in 2019. It took 15 years and cost some $11.1 million to renovate the former train station. Walt Unks photos, Journal ...
The train station was built in 1872, as was Pearson Store, which later housed the Newington Post Office. There is still a Newington Post Office up the hill from the station site, across from the ...
A NC community care station operated for more than six months after Tropical Storm Helene, costing $27.4 million. The station provided showers, laundry, restrooms, water, cell service, WiFi and ...