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.

Duos Granted AI Patent

Duos Technologies Group, Inc., through its operating subsidiary Duos Technologies, Inc., has been awarded a U.S. patent, Use of Artificial Intelligence to Detect Defects in Trains and Method to Use. The company

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Force Control

RAILWAY AGE, FEBRUARY 2024 ISSUE: Nearly 140 years after the first patent was issued, draft gears and cushioning devices remain as fundamental to railroading as steel wheels rolling on steel rails. Few

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NS: $1B Infrastructure Improvements in 2023

Norfolk Southern—like much of the industry, battling a misinformation campaign by rail union leadership aided and abetted by the U.S. Transportation Secretary and Federal Railroad Administrator, and reportedly in the gunsights of

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Cesspool of Political Partisanship

In the February issue, Contributing Editors Frank N. Wilner and Donald M. Itzkoff separately address all the policy and legislative challenges freight railroads face this year. All these challenges are a 30,000-gallon

BNSF Hobart: Record On-Time, Safety Stats

In 2023, BNSF’s Los Angeles Hobart Intermodal Facility set an on-time departure record of 94%, surpassing its previous record of 86%, set in 2012. These results, BNSF said, “were achieved all while

ARCI: Freight Car Market Performing Well

The Railway Supply Institute (RSI) American Railway Car Institute Committee (ARCI) has released 4Q2023 data indicating a freight car market that has performed well since the pandemic, with a healthy backlog closing