On Jan. 6, 2025, OC Transpo (Ottawa) O-Train Lines 2 and 4 (Trillium Line) began weekday passenger service to Limebank Station and Ottawa International Airport Station, respectively, marking a “major milestone” in the O-Train South Extension project.
The newest subway vehicle for MTA New York City Transit has an “R” designation, but it’s a stand-alone piece of rolling stock that doesn’t carry passengers. It’s the R255, a hybrid battery-diesel
Railway Age’s 2025 Railroader of the Year is CSX President and Chief Executive Officer Joe Hinrichs, who joined the railroad industry in September 2022 and in a little more than two years
HDR has named Cameron Schaefer, P.E., Transportation Technology Director. In his new role, Schaefer “will shape and implement a robust technology vision for HDR’s transportation infrastructure practice,” the company said. Based in
The New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) “has not done enough to consolidate its procurements across its agencies to save money as was expected under its Transformation Plan, according to an audit
BNSF intermodal operating metrics for the week ending Dec. 31. 3, 2025 declined, but the railroad said they “are showing signs of recovery, returning to pre-holiday levels with significant improvements in velocity
The Cascadia High-Speed Rail project, which would connect major Pacific Northwest major cities with HSR service operating up to 250 mph, in late December 2024 received $49.7 million in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
In the past few years, the railway industry has been willing to at least consider technologies once thought to be unusual or unconventional—autonomous or semi-autonomous freight and passenger trains, and battery-electric, hybrid
According to the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), between 2013 and 2015, accidents associated with wheel failures represented 11% of all equipment-caused accidents, a figure based on November 2016 data from FRA’s Office
In railroading, “close calls” are defined as “potentially unsafe events or conditions.” Tasked by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (Volpe) evaluated the C3RS (Confidential Close Call