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

Kiewit/J.F. Shea JV Lands Amtrak Frederick Douglass Tunnel Contract

Amtrak has awarded a Kiewit/J.F. Shea Joint Venture to build the new, $6 billion Frederick Douglass Tunnel, which will serve electrified Amtrak and MARC commuter trains. Construction scheduled to begin in 2026;

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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Jefferies to Buttigieg: ‘Allowing Uncorrected Misunderstandings Undercuts Public Confidence’

Diplomacy isn’t easy. Successful practitioners are good listeners with open minds, articulate, tactful, knowledgeable and credible. For the railroad industry, an understanding of how things get done on Capitol Hill is essential

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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

For NYCT’s R211T, Local Service Only (Updated)

The New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) had been phasing in its first two open-gangway R211T trainsets from Kawasaki Rail Car along New York City Transit’s (NYCT) B Division (lettered lines) express

Get Ready for CPKC’s Empress Transnational Steam Tour!

It was reported first by Railway Age when Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern finalized their merger to create CPKC, North America’s first and only single-line transnational railroad: Steam locomotive 2816, a

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

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