PTC: Best Practices, Lessons Learned

RAILWAY AGE, OCTOBER 2024 ISSUE: This report focuses on CSX’s track record with Positive Train Control, some four years after it was fully deployed. How has PTC impacted safety at CSX? What

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The Great Boxcar Divide

FROM THE EDITOR, RAILWAY AGE OCTOBER 2024 ISSUE: This month we dive head-first again into boxcars. Financial Editor  David Nahass, who (pardon the cliché) is rather adept at thinking outside the box,

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‘This Scenario Is a Bit Unusual’

CSX President and CEO Joe Hinrichs got the wheels turning in late August when his railroad took labor negotiations out of national handling through the National Carriers Conference Committee (NCCC) and, well

MTS Copper Line East County Connector Debuts

The San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) Copper Line East County Connector, which replaces San Diego Trolley Green and Orange Line service north of El Cajon Transit Center, entered revenue service Sept.

NS Settles East Palestine Class Action (UPDATED, Sept. 26)

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio Judge Benita Pearson has given final approval to the $600 million class-action settlement that Norfolk Southern offered to everyone who lived within 20

WAGO, TransDev Partner on SFRTA OSSI Project

In early 2020, the South Florida Regional Transportation Authority (SFRTA) needed to upgrade the highway/rail grade crossing warning systems on its Tri-Rail rail corridor as part of an OSSI (On-Site Signal Improvement)

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Lunch Has Been Served. Wake Up!!

When I started in this business in 1992, Bob Matthews ran the Railway Progress Institute (which years later merged with the Railway Supply Association into today’s Railway Supply Institute). Bob had a

RailPulse™ Certifies ZTR’s Pivot

The RailPulse™ coalition—GATX, Watco, Genesee & Wyoming, TrinityRail, Norfolk Southern, The Greenbrier Companies, Union Pacific, CPKC, CSX, Bunge and Railroad Development Corp.—has added ZTR, with its Pivot railcar monitoring and sensor technology, as a

Naik-STV Awarded NYCT Station Upgrade PMC Contract

New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Construction and Development (C&D) has awarded Naik-STV Engineering Joint Venture (Naik-STV), consisting of Naik Consulting Group PC and STV, a Program Management Consultant contract for New

Big Boy Fits in ‘Jay Leno’s Garage’!

Jay Leno is probably better-known for his Jay Leno’s Garage series and collection of 81 automobiles and 160 motorcycles, among which are several early 20th century Stanley Steamers, than for his 17

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