The 37-union-affiliate Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD) on July 1 sent a letter to the Surface Transportation Board in response to the agency’s “information collection request” regarding Class I railroad reporting requirements. The letter, signed by TTD President Greg Regan, asks the STB to further increase the already stepped-up reporting requirements to include additional employment data.
Four companies—4AI Systems, Alstom, Luminar/Seoul Robotics and Ouster/Lux Modus—have been selected by the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority Transit Tech Lab as finalists in the global Signaling Challenge competition, part of New York City Transit’s CBTC (communications-based train control) program.
The Surface Transportation Board has published its annual deflator factor and inflation-adjusted railroad revenue thresholds for 2021.
Editor’s Note: Railway Age marks Canada Day, July 1, 2022, by extending greetings and best wishes to all our Canadian railway industry colleagues—freight and passenger/transit railroaders, suppliers, contractors, consultants, contributors—and by reporting
The quest for sustainability is reshaping the rail industry. We look at the directions of travel—the tracks that rail is on.
Employees on Canadian Pacific’s Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern (DM&E) South; Central Maine & Quebec (CMQ) U.S. and Central Maine & Quebec Canada subsidiaries have ratified collective bargaining agreements.
Ronald Lee McDaniel, an iconic figure in the railroad and railway supply community, died June 23, 2022. He was 83.
American Industrial Transport, Inc. (AITX) has expanded its repair and maintenance network across the U.S. Northeast and Midwest with facilities in Milton, Pa. and Clinton, Ind. Both facilities are currently open and actively servicing repair customers.
Amtrak, in partnership with NJ Transit and in coordination with the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority, has entered into a $73 million, two-year contract with a team led by global engineering, consulting and design firm Arup to begin designing options for Gateway Program extensions and additions to the existing tracks, platforms and concourses in Penn Station New York. These facilities will be the first new ones since the original Pennsylvania Railroad New York Improvements Program in the early 20th century.
Effective July 5, 2022, Amtrak has separated the President and Chief Executive Officer functions, promoting Chief Commercial Officer Roger Harris to President, reporting to Stephen Gardner, who will have the sole title of CEO. Additionally, Senior Vice President Service Delivery & Operations Gerhard (Gery) Williams will be elevated to Executive Vice President Service Delivery & Operations, succeeding Scot Naparstek, who is retiring.
