Arcata, Calif.-based Carlson Wireless Technologies, a provider of solar powered wireless voice and data communications, has announced its latest VTS monitoring and alarm technology. VTS offers system monitoring and alarm capabilities to
Job creation, economic development, and environmental improvements rated equally high among participants Wednesday of “Putting America Back on the Fast Track: The Case for High-Speed Rail,” a webinar sponsored by Siemens Mobility
What Canadian Pacific says was a “one in 100-year rainfall event (one in 500-year event in some locations)” is expected to reduce the railroad’s earnings per share by 10 to 13 Canadian cents
Bombardier Transportation Wednesday presented the ceremonial keys to the chief executive officer of London Gatwick Airport, signifying completion of the upgrade project for the inter-terminal transit system, which will commence passenger services
Washington, D.C.’s City Council Tuesday unanimously passed legislation that would revamp restrictions on overhead wires, enacted to preserve urban vistas, that have hindered restoration of streetcar service infederal historic areas. The “emergency
Efforts proceed to assure continued service on Huron Central Railway along Lake Huron’s northern shores, but some sticking points remain, according to Bill Therriault, chair of the multi-modal steering committee for the
Kansas City Southern’s Board of Directors has elected Michael R. Haverty (left), current chairman and chief executive officer of the Class I railroad, to executive chairman, effective Aug. 1. As well, David
A final rule published Monday by the Federal Railroad Administration gives states with the worst grade crossing safety records one year from Aug. 27 to complete five-year action plans that address the problem. The
Melbourne, Australia-based Aconex said Tuesday it has been selected by Denver’s Regional Tranportation District to provide online support services for RTD’s $6 billion FasTracks transit expansion program. Aconex will be used to
Portec Rail Products, Inc. said late Monday that, as a result of a court order June 24, the company and L.B. Foster Co. “are no longer prohibited by the Court from completing the
The economic downturn brought a great deal of hardship to carriers across the supply chain. Many shippers took the opportunity to re-bid their trucking contracts out of cycle, placing even more pressure on companies in the trucking sector.
Ongoing fiscal distress continues to roil New York’s subway operations, but system expansion literally is on a full bore.
No longer the lone star even within the Lone Star State, DART still is leading the rail transit renaissance within Texas—and the United States—by example.
These are tough times for prognosticators—especially those of us who have been doing it for decades in the rail industry. In the case of this writer, it has been almost 20 years of regularly making fairly accurate predictions within the covers of Railway Age, followed by a few years of not being able to accurately predict the end of our economic malaise.
Amid the high-profile meeting of the G20 nations in Toronto during the weekend, High Speed Rail Canada said Monday it has reviewed all the Group of 8 (G8) and G20 countries and their
The $9 billion Access to the Region’s Core project is the most ambitious railway engineering and construction undertaking since the Pennsylvania Railroad tunneled under the waters of the Hudson River over a century ago.
Ignored by the federal government earlier this year in its effort to obtain economic recovery funds for a streetcar project, Atlanta has reformulated its effort, scaling back a 9.2-mile starter line to just a 2.6-mile downtown loop and—perhaps more important—committing local matching funds to the proposal.
In a triumph railroad and airline unions, the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia on Friday turned down an airline industry appeal against new National Mediation Board rules on representation
Join Railway Age Editor William C. Vantuono as he leads a live online discussion on high speed rail on Tuesday, June 29, 2010, 1:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (12:00 Central, 10 a.m.
California State Sen. Alan Lowenthal seeks to prevent potential conflicts of interest between the state’s proposed $44 billion high speed rail system, and various transit properties likely to serve it, by preventing
