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MARP’s first-ever meeting in Canada will take place on Saturday, November 10, at the historic railway station in Essex, Ontario. Essex is a mere 20 miles southeast of Detroit’s Renaissance Center via the Ambassador Bridge and route ON-3 E.
Mr. William Gay, Historian/Treasurer of the Essex County Historical Association and also the Essex Station Custodian, will tell us about the history of the Canada Southern Railway, its lease by the Michigan Central Railroad in the 1880’s, the original crossing of the Detroit River via Grosse Isle, the construction of the Detroit River tunnel, the construction of the Essex Station, the bankruptcy of Penn Central and the demise of the Canada Southern Railway.
Mr. Harry Gow, past president of Transport Action Canada, will also be with us to talk about the status of the new Detroit-Windsor tunnel, the challenges of passenger train service between Detroit and Windsor and what is happening with rail passenger service in Southwestern Ontario, Ontario and Canada as a whole.
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Passengers board a train headed toward Chicago at the current Amtrak station on Depot Street in Ann Arbor. AnnArbor.com photo
As the federal government makes hundreds of millions of dollars in high-speed rail improvements along the Detroit-to-Chicago corridor, Ann Arbor is putting its own money on the table.
The Ann Arbor City Council decided Oct. 15 to spend another $550,000 from its general fund cash reserves to study options for a new Amtrak station somewhere in the city. That comes on top of $307,781 the city already had included in its current fiscal year budget for the project.
“Yes, we need a new train station,” said Council Member Sabra Briere, D-1st Ward. “The one we have is inadequate. I have felt that way for a long time.”
The vote was 8-2 with opposition from Jane Lumm and Mike Anglin, who remain skeptical about the need for a new train station. Council Member Stephen Kunselman was absent.
“We need a new train station,” said Mayor John Hieftje, pointing to the growing number of people coming to work in Ann Arbor. “Ann Arbor is growing jobs. We may be in a situation where we’re growing 1,000 to 2,000 jobs a year. What other city of our size would not welcome that scenario?”
He said the alternative to a train station is more parking structures, more pollution and more congestion on the city’s roads.
Eli Cooper, the city’s transportation program manager, presented council members with the latest cost estimates for what’s being dubbed Ann Arbor Station, showing about $31.7 million in short-term construction costs, plus another $11.1 million for a new south rail platform and crossover in a future phase, which Cooper described as “post-2020” when rail volume picks up more.
Amtrak service has been restored but may be behind schedule slightly as investigators try to determine why the eastbound Wolverine No. 350 train derailed Sunday near Niles, hurting two crew and seven passengers.
The train service between Chicago and Pontiac was disrupted Sunday following the 10:10 a.m. derailment, which took the entire train off the track, Amtrak spokesman Marc Magliari said. There were 174 passengers and four crew aboard.
Amtrak cancelled service on the line Sunday and rerouted several hundred passengers who were booked on later trains to Michigan. Many who had visited Chicago for the weekend ended up taking trains to Toledo and then being moved to buses and driven to their rail destinations. Some passengers didn’t make it back to Dearborn, Royal Oak and Pontiac until early Monday.
Amtrak expected to run close to its normal timetable Monday, Magliari said, adding that trains will slow down for the half-mile stretch under investigation.
“We’ll be at reduced speed through the area because people are out there working but it should have a minimal effect on schedules,” he said. “Everything is under investigation: the train, the operation, the infrastructure, the communication system the train used. Everything will be considered.”
The train consisting of two locomotives and four railcars derailed about two miles east of Niles. It remained upright and in-line. Of the seven passengers and two crew members taken to area hospitals, one was hospitalized overnight. Magliari would comment on the extent of the injuries except to say all were non-life threatening.
Amtrak is investigating the incident along with the Federal Railroad Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board. Amtrak owns, maintains and dispatches this track segment used by Amtrak Wolverine Service and Blue Water trains.
Firefighters inspect the scene of a train derailment just North of Niles on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012. / AP PHOTO
Federal officials expect their investigation into a southwestern Michigan train derailment that injured about a dozen people to take six months to a year.
National Transportation Safety Board railroad investigator Michael Flanigon spoke today at a news conference in nearby South Bend, Ind.
WSBT-TV reports he says there are measurements to take, interviews to conduct and electronic data that needs to be analyzed before a determination of the cause can be made.
The Amtrak train was traveling from Chicago to Pontiac on Sunday when two of its locomotives and one or more coaches derailed. It happened near Niles, just north of the Indiana state line.
Amtrak says none of the injuries were considered serious or life-threatening. The train was carrying about 174 passengers and four crew members.
At least 7 people were taken to the hospital after an Amtrakpassenger train derailed late Sunday morning in Niles.
It happened shortly before 10:30 a.m. a half-mile north of the Jerry Tyler Memorial Airport.
The derailment was at the intersection of Terminal Rd. and Renaissance Dr.
169 people, passengers and crew were onboard.
WSBT was told on the scene none of the passengers hurt suffered life-threatening injuries and were taken to Lakeland Hospital in Niles, Lee Memorial in Dowagiac and South Bend’s Memorial Hospital for treatment.
School buses from Niles took the rest of the passengers to the city’s train station.
7 different ambulance services were called to the scene.
Two passengers on board the derailed Amtrak told WSBT it was fairly chaotic at the time of the accident, and they didn’t know if the train would tip over or not. They said luggage was flying.
The Amtrak train had 4 cars and 2 engines.
Emergency crews cleared the scene at 12:35 p.m.
Investigators from Amtrak were on their way to determine what caused the derailment.
