RAILWAY AGE, JANUARY 2023 ISSUE: Railway Age’s 2023 Railroader of the Year Award, the 60th annual, goes to a groundbreaking North American rail industry leader: BNSF President and Chief Executive Officer Katie M. Farmer.
FROM THE EDITOR, RAILWAY AGE JANUARY 2023 ISSUE: New Year’s resolutions are, mostly, as my late Uncle Alberto used to say, “a bunch of malarkey.” What’s the point in pledging once a year to change something that perhaps you should have changed a long time ago, or in starting to behave differently than what people are accustomed to, on Jan. 1, year after year? The only constant in life is change, right? And if you really think about it, life is more about adapting than about changing.
This is Part 2, “The Business Environment as a Service Platform,” of a three-part series based upon the new book, Dynamic Multi-Level Decisioning Architecture: Making the Right Decisions at the Right Time,
The Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) on Dec. 23 ruled that revenues of both CN and Canadian Pacific (CP) were above their respective maximum grain revenue entitlements for crop year 2021–2022.
Bioveld Canada subsidiary The BMI Group, in partnership with HOPA Ports (Hamilton Oshawa Port Authority), has purchased a new, 170-acre industrial complex in Thorold, Ontario that adds 500,000 square feet of warehouse space and greenfield land to Thorold Multimodal Hub, effectively doubling its size.
New Jersey Transit (NJT) has initiated a procurement process for an O&M (Operations and Maintenance) contractor for the 20.6-mile, 24-station Hudson-Bergen Light Rail (HBLR) system, which has operated under the initial DBOM (Design-Build-Operate-Maintain) contract held by 21st Century Rail Corporation since its inception in 2000. “As that contract gets set to expire in the coming years, NJT is evaluating all options on how best to continue delivering high-quality operation and maintenance of the system,” the agency said.
The Surface Transportation Board (STB) on Dec. 19 adopted two final rules establishing new “rate reasonableness procedures” it says “provide two streamlined approaches for shippers and railroads to resolve smaller rate disputes.” The Association of American Railroads is calling STB’s actions “fatally flawed.”
Brookville Equipment Corporation has promoted Joel McNeil to Executive Vice President. He will continue to oversee the Business Development department and will also take on additional strategic leadership and organizational development duties.
Republican Representative Byron Donalds (R-Fla.), with GOP cosponsors Mike Bost and Rodney Davis (R-Ill.), Randy Feenstra (R-Iowa), Michael Guest and Steven Palazzo (R-Miss.) and Troy Nehls (R-Tex.), on Dec. 15 introduced H.R.
The Western Canadian Short Line Railway Association (WCSLRA) has received C$506,800 from the Government of Canada’s PrairiesCan (Prairies Economic Development Canada) Western Diversification Program to fund a three-year Short Line Railway Marketing Program in partnership with 18 short line railways in Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba.