Will intermodal lead the recovery?

If the past few months are any indication, the answer is yes. Just ask BNSF.

Grade crossings get smarter, safer

Current technology is not only more reliable, it’s highly intelligent.

100 years of growth

As New York Penn Station marks a century of service, planners are gearing up for the next 100 years.

Cincinnati finalizes streetcar route

Cincinnati city officials Wednesday said Vine Street willhost the $128 million streetcar route from Over-the-Rhine to the Uptown areanear the University of Cincinnati. A route along West Clifton Avenue was theother choice

STB named “Best Place to Work”—again

The Partnership for Public Service for the second consecutive year has named the Surface Transportation Board No. 1 among small federal agencies in its 2010 list of the Best Places to Work in the

MBTA bets big on rail

An elder statesman among the growing crowd of U.S. transit properties, Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority—the “T”—holds to its vision: expand its service area and service options.

Rail tested by “soaring” export wheat demand

The Surface Transportation Board announced Friday that is has scheduled a meeting of the National Grain Car Council for Sept. 16 to discuss the readiness of U. S. railroads to move export

Lack of “safety culture” cited in fatal WMATA collision

The National Transportation Safety Board has determined that contributing factors to last year’s fatal collision of two Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority trains were “the lack of a safety culture within WMATA; ineffective

GATX: Leasing market “challenging”

GATX reported mixed results for the second quarter Thursday with the following comment by Brian A. Kenney, president and chief executive officer: "The North American railcar leasing market continues to be challenging. Although GATX’s

In the January 2012 issue of Railway Age

2012 Railroader of the Year Join Railway Age in honoring the 2012 recipient of the Railroader of The Year, the most prestigious, most highly coveted award in the railway industry—David Starling, President

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