SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – Up to $500,000 was awarded to the Rail and Transit Division to support additional train service that connects Boston and Albany, New York through Springfield. Route 5 in ...

The New York Central System was a vast and legendary railroad, connecting the East Coast to the Mississippi River. A key ...

With $3.5 million that the Massachusetts Department of Transportation secured through the Federal Railroad Administration, state officials say Massachusetts will now be able to take “an essential step ...

BOSTON - Massachusetts is getting $108 million from the Biden administration to improve railway safety and add Amtrak service between Boston and Albany, New York. The investment from the Federal ...

SPRINGFIELD — The east-west rail route from Boston through Worcester, Springfield and Pittsfield to Albany, New York, could get as many as eight daily round-trip passenger trains, the Federal Railroad ...

New funding is on track to help bring back a train line between Boston and Albany. NewsChannel 13’s media partners at The Berkshire Eagle report Massachusetts has secured $3.5 million to plan what’s ...

SPRINGFIELD — MassDOT’s Andy Koziol, appointed last week as west-east rail director, says Springfield will get renewed passenger service to Boston and, heading westward, to Pittsfield and Albany, New ...

Progress will be incremental, but the outlook is optimistic, says Andrew Koziol, who was tapped by Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey to oversee efforts to drastically improve rail service in the ...

Scott Shane, author of “Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery’s Borderland.” This is page 1 of the Aug. 10, 1842 edition of Tocsin of Liberty where an article on the second ...