Raihead Corp. has been awarded a contract to supply ArcelorMittal with a new remote monitoring and 4K video recording system for its Cartier Mining Railway, Quebec, Canada. The technology will provide ArcelorMittal with real-time-monitoring and access to locomotive data as its trains travel between mining operations and shipping ports in Canada.
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) wants the Surface Transportation Board to dump the Canadian Pacific-Kansas City Southern merger, unless he gets his way.
The Toronto Transit Commission’s Automatic Train Control (ATC) communications-based train control (CBTC) system is now fully operational on Line 1 (Yonge-University-Spadina Line) of the agency’s rapid transit network.
New Jersey Transit President and CEO Kevin Corbett is a featured speaker at Railway Age’s Next-Gen Train Control Conference, presented jointly with Parsons. Corbett’s leadership and experience in project management was largely
MTA Long Island Rail Road has completed its main line Third Track Project on time and under budget, providing the LIRR with a 9.8-mile triple-track section from Floral Park to Hicksville.
New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority Senior Vice President, Signals and Train Controls, MTA Construction and Development/New York City Transit Gregoire Sulmont will present on “New York City Transit CBTC Program and CBTC
SMART-Transportation Division President Jeremy Ferguson on Sept. 30 issued an open letter to members stressing that a vote to ratify a tentative agreement struck with the carriers “is now yours.” His BLET
In response to petitions for a rulemaking, the Federal Railroad Administration is proposing amending its regulation on “Training, Qualification, and Oversight for Safety-Related Railroad Employees” for the purpose of “codifying agency guidance and clarifying existing requirements.” The comment period ends Dec. 2, 2022.
Barstow, Calif., a major hub on the BNSF Southern Transcon in San Bernardino County where the Needles, Mojave and Cajon subdivisions come together, and the location of Barstow Yard, will be the site of Barstow International Gateway, a $1.5 billion investment described as a “state-of-the-art master-planned integrated rail facility, and the first being developed by a Class I railroad.”
According to the most recent figures from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), the U.S. crude oil rail tank car fleet exceeded 85% compliance with DOT-117 safety standards, in 2021, up from 80% in 2020.