BUILT IN THE 1890S, THE HOWARD STREET TUNNEL UNTIL NOW HAD BEEN A CHOKE POINT FOR FREIGHT TRAIN, RAIL TRAFFIC AND AN ACHILLES HEEL FOR THE PORT OF BALTIMORE. THE EXPANSION CHANGES EVERYTHING. THIS IS ...

Minutes before Joe Hinrichs reopened the Howard Street Tunnel to rail traffic Friday, he smiled. “We’re done early and below budget,” said the CSX Corp. president as he signaled the completion of a ...

For decades, Baltimore’s Howard Street Tunnel has been both an asset and a chokehold. Built in 1895 by the B&O Railroad, it was once an engineering triumph; by the late 20th century, its low ...

Americans have grown used to a certain rhythm when it comes to infrastructure projects. We hear the announcement with fanfare, wait through years of delays, watch the budgets swell, and too often we ...

The Howard Street Tunnel, originally built in the 1890s, reopened Friday in Baltimore. The tunnel has been a vital shipping line artery, but it became a corridor bottleneck because double-stacked ...

(RTTNews) - CSX Corp. (CSX), Friday announced announced the re-opening of the expanded Howard Street Tunnel, which is expected to modernize freight rail transportation along the East Coast, boost ...