The Surface Transportation Board has announced a proposal to require disclosure of additional information concerning interchange commitments—known as “paper barriers”—underlying a lease or rail-line sale filed with the board.
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Senior Program Officer
The Transportation Research Board (TRB) is one of six major divisions of the National Research Council—a private, nonprofit institution that is the principal operating agency of the National Academies in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities.
CSX Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer Michael J. Ward Tuesday joined federal, state, and local officials from Pennsylvania to mark the midway point of progress on the first phase of projects for the National Gateway, the $850 million public-private partnership designed to improve freight rail traffic flows between the Midwest and the East Coast.
Isis Consultants is seeking experienced senior or junior railroad signal engineers and CAD operators for its Louisville, KY office and nationwide.
The Surface Transportation Board announced Wednesday its determination that two of the five major U. S. freight railroads, Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific, were “revenue adequate” in 2011. This means that their return on investment exceeded their cost of capital as determined under an STB formula.
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Assistant Bridge Supervisor – Beaumont, TX and Kansas City, MO
POSITION SUMMARY:
Performs inspections of bridge structures to ensure compliance with KCS, AREMA, Industry Bridge Standards, and Federal guidelines. This position also supervises the construction, maintenance, repairs and/or renewal of bridges.
The Department of Transportation and Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy Monday announced $120.9 million had been released by the Federal Railroad Administration to upgrade Amtrak’s New Haven-Springfield (Mass.) route, part of the New England “Knowledge Corridor.”
BNSF announced Sept. 29 that an updated Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) released by the Port of Los Angeles found that a proposed BNSF Southern California International Gateway (SCIG) facility “will result in an overall improvement in air quality, health risk, and traffic in both the immediate neighborhoods around the site and throughout the region.”
