AAR: U.S. freight traffic mixed as March starts
U.S. freight traffic for the week ending March 8, 2014 was mixed measured against the comparable week in 2013, the Association of American Railroads said Thursday, March 13.
U.S. freight traffic for the week ending March 8, 2014 was mixed measured against the comparable week in 2013, the Association of American Railroads said Thursday, March 13.
Railway Age magazine has named Coos Bay Rail Link the 2014 Short Line Railroad of the Year, and Arkansas & Missouri Railroad Co. its 2014 Regional Railroad of the Year. The awards will be presented at the American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association’s annual meeting in San Diego, Calif., Friday, April 25, 2014.
Tigard, Ore., voters appear to have approved Ballot Measure 34-210, which specifically rejects any effort by TriMet to extend MAX light rail transit into the community.
Chicago-based NxGen Rail Services announced Wednesday, March 12, 2014 what it calls “the release of the world’s first high-speed rail inspection system capable of detecting missing and displaced rail anchors.”
Axion International Holdings, Inc. said Tuesday, March 11, 2014 it has “a second purchase order for ECOTRAX® rail ties to be shipped to Russia and installed in track with a major transit line.”
Metra has won a local Silver Addy Award from the American Advertising Federation, honoring the agency’s digital billboard touting the Chicagoland regional rail system as the area’s “Real Expressway.”
More Americans relied on public transit (bus and rail) in 2013 than in any year since 1956, the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) said Monday, March 10, 2014.
Supporters of Detroit’s public-private partnership advancing a $140 million initial streetcar line say construction will likely begin this spring.
Fairport, N.Y.-based RailComm said Friday, March 7, 2014, a major North American railroad yard in North Baltimore, Ohio, has chosen to upgrade it current yard control system to include 18 new switch locations.