Author: William C. Vantuono

With Railway Age since 1992, William C. Vantuono has broadened and deepened the magazine's coverage of the technological revolution that is so swiftly changing the industry. He has also strengthened Railway Age’s leadership position in industry affairs with the conferences he conducts, among them Next-Generation Train Control, Light Rail, and Rail Insights. He is the author or co-author or editor of several books, among them All About Railroading; John Armstrong’s The Railroad: What It Is, What It Does; Railway Age’s Comprehensive Railroad Dictionary; and Planning, Engineering, and Operating Light Rail, With Applications in New Jersey.

Fernandez Confirmed as FTA Head

The U.S. Senate on June 10 confirmed Nuria Fernandez as the 15th Administrator of the Federal Transit Administration (FTA). Fernandez is also the first Senate-confirmed woman of color to lead FTA, and the first confirmed Administrator in more than a decade.

Sure-Footed Sorting

RAILWAY AGE, JUNE 2021 ISSUE: Through technology, railroads can say
bye-bye to classification yard bottlenecks.

Commentary

Revenue Adequacy Rhetoric Redux (Yawn)

It’s déjà vu all over again, and I’ve observed a lot by watching. Yes, ladies and gentlemen (present company included, I hope?), it’s time once again when we’ve come to that diverging approach on the railroad regulatory right-of-way called “revenue adequacy,” as defined by the Surface Transportation Board. Let’s take that turnout, even though no one, except perhaps railroad and shipper attorneys, goes there anymore, because it’s too crowded. So wye does it matter?

CHSRA Federal Funding Restored

The Biden Administration and the State of California on June 7 reached a settlement to restore a $928.6 million grant agreement that Donald Trump had tried to kill—an action that prompted a lawsuit.

Commentary

SCDTF: Without Rail, It’s Just Another Acronym

As part of a larger initiative stemming from “key findings” from reviews directed under President Joe Biden’s Feb. 24, 2021 Executive Order (E.O.) 14017, “America’s Supply Chains,” as well as “immediate actions the Administration will take to strengthen American supply chains to promote economic security, national security and good-paying, union jobs here at home,” the Administration has established a Supply Chain Disruptions Task Force (SCDTF).

Feinberg Named First Woman MTA Chair

Feinberg, 43, and a Railway Age 2020 Women in Rail honoree, has been Interim President of MTA New York City Transit since March 2020. Foye is expected to be appointed as Interim President and CEO