Bombardier touts Supplier Sustainability Awards
Bombardier Transportation said Tueday, July 9, 2013 it has presented this year’s Supplier Sustainability Awards to suppliers Infineon Technologies AG and Willowglen Systems Inc.
Bombardier Transportation said Tueday, July 9, 2013 it has presented this year’s Supplier Sustainability Awards to suppliers Infineon Technologies AG and Willowglen Systems Inc.
The economic future of Vancouver, Wash., is now in some doubt following the Washington State legislature’s failure to approve state funds for the proposed $3.4 billion Columbia River Crossing (CRC), spanning the namesake river and linking Vancouver with Portland, Ore., by road and TriMet light rail transit.
The National Railroad Construction & Maintenance Association (NRC) said Monday, July 8, 2013 it was “pleased to announce the availability of scholarships for tuition assistance to children or grandchildren of NRC members.
Quebec provincial and local officials, along with firefighters, continued struggling Monday, July 8, 2013, with the damage and death caused by a Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway crude oil train that derailed early Saturday in Lac-Megantic, Quebec.
U.S. freight traffic, gaining strength during May and June, ended the first half of 2013 in a “mixed” pattern, the Association of American Railroads noted – but a mirror-image opposite of the usual.
U.S. freight carload traffic during the week ending June 22, 2013 held its ground, “essentially flat” when measured against the comparable week in 2012, the Asssociation of American Railroads reported Thursday, June 27. U.S. intermodal volume, by contrast, kept on rolling, up 2.7% compared with the same week last year.
The Senate unanimously confirmed former Charlotte, N.C. Mayor Anthony Foxx as the new Secretary of Transportation Thursday, June 27, 2013, succeeding Ray LaHood.
A New York Appellate Court Wednesday, June 26, 2013 overturned an earlier ruling that a Payroll Mobility Tax funding the Metropolitan Transportation Authority was unconstitutional, in effect assuring that MTA can continue to collect about $1.4 billion per year.
Florida’s Department of Transportation has reached a lease agreement with Florida East Coast Industries for right-of-way along State Road 528, also known as the Martin Andersen Beachline Expressway (to be used by All Aboard Florida higher-speed rail service.
Norfolk Southern said Wednesday, June 26 it has opened a new Thoroughbred Bulk Transfer terminal in Columbia, S.C.