WSP USA has announced appointments and promotions to the firm’s executive leadership team, including Andrew Esposito, who joins the firm as Chief Financial Officer; Steve Summers, who joins the firm as SVP and Director of Project Excellence and Delivery; and Rich Driggs, who was promoted to Chief Operating Officer.
Norfolk Southern Corp. (NS) announced leadership appointments in its transformation, transportation and law departments, effective immediately. In addition, Josh Raglin, formerly general manager facilities, has been appointed to the role of chief sustainability officer.
ClearBlade recently introduced the ARMS Ario-GX™, an industrial IIoT gateway with smart I/O aimed to measure, monitor and report the status of remote assets to the back office, in partnership with Automated Railroad Maintenance Systems (ARMS).
Atlas Copco and Universal Compressed Air (UCA) have announced a partnership to supply compressed air solutions to the U.S. market under the name of Pipeline Air.
The Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ended Feb. 29, 2020, as well as volumes for February 2020. The numbers are in line with recent trends, but AAR feels that some figures are misleading—with one culprit to blame.
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) has deployed a customized data analytics/decision support platform developed by RailcarRx to provide its Operations and Maintenance Department with actionable information in an effort to help improve its asset lifecycle management processes.
Recently, Reading & Northern Railroad (R&N) finalized an agreement to bring back passenger trains to Tamaqua’s 146-year-old train station. Now, more details have come to light.
In the absence of significant illegal blockades on its network over the last four days, CN announced that it has started calling back most of the temporarily laid off employees based in Eastern Canada.
OneRail Coalition has completed its reorganization as a 501(c)(6) nonprofit organization and named its first board of directors.
Infrastructure Ontario and Metrolinx have selected the HDR-led team to serve as technical advisor for the approximately C$10.9 billion TTC (Toronto Transit Commission) Ontario Line in Toronto. This nearly 16-kilometer, free-standing subway line, with 15 proposed stations, will run from Ontario Place/Exhibition Place through downtown Toronto to the Ontario Science Centre.
