In 2024, Norfolk Southern’s Operation & Awareness Response (OAR) program trained more than 5,500 first responders with specialized training and resources at 20 cities on the Class I’s network. More than 2,000
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) commuter rail O&M (operations and maintenance) contractor Keolis Commuter Services has reached amended labor agreements with an additional nine of fourteen unions. The agreements, which need to
Amtrak’s internal yet independent Office of Inspector General (OIG) has released a report on Phase 1 (of four) of the railroad’s Long Distance Fleet Replacement (LDFR) program, defining the $7 billion initiative
Tanco Terminals, which stores and performs value-added services for liquid cargoes from petroleum to food-grade oils, is constructing an $8.2 million expansion of its liquid tank farm at Ports of Indiana-Burns Harbor
Roughly one month before a new Administration is installed in Washington D.C.—one many believe will pay little or no attention to the environment and the global climate change crisis, and may actually
The New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is exercising Option 2 with Kawasaki Rail Car Inc. for 435 additional R211 rapid transit railcars—355 R211A/S (traditional closed-end) cars and 80 R211T open-gangway cars.
BNSF has awarded Certified Sites designation to four new locations: Everett, Spokane and Plymouth, Wash.; and Springfield, Mo., with acreage ready for industrial development. The Certified Sites program, the railroad said, “is
The Chicago Region Environmental and Transportation Efficiency (CREATE) Program has been awarded more than $290 million in USDOT grants for the 75th Street Corridor Improvement Project (CIP), described as “the largest rail chokepoint
Kevin S. Corbett, who has ably and confidently led New Jersey Transit since Feb. 14, 2018, has resigned effective Jan. 15, 2025 and will move on to a position at Rutgers University
NJ Transit on Dec. 12 broke ground on the County Yard and Delco Lead Storage and Inspection Facility Project, part of the agency’s Resilience Program to provide an additional resilient storage location for