Florida’s Department of Transportation, through its newly created Florida Rail Enterprise, has selected HNTB Corp,. and Wilbur Smith Associates, in a joint partnership, as its program manager for passenger rail in the
Bombardier Transportation said Wednesday that, together with its consortium partner, Dusseldorf, Germany-based Vossloh Kiepe GmbH, it signed an option to supply an additional eight FLEXITY Swift light rail vehicles to Greater Manchester Passenger
Pat Gamble, president and CEO of the Alaska Railroad since 2001, has resigned to become president of Alaska’s state university system this summer. The railroad has grown under Gamble’s leadership and major new growth
As the U.S. economy emerges from the Great Recession, the freight rail industry’s growth “is in high gear,” according to Dahlman Rose & Co. Director-Equity Research and Railway Age Contributing Editor Jason
The Chlorine Institute, Inc. (CI) fears that the Positive Train Control (PTC) rule, which the Federal Railroad Administration published Jan. 14, "drastically underestimates the rule’s benefits," and it has asked the FRA to re-issue the
Bruce P. DeVito, who served as a vice president and regional director of rail and transit services with Gannett Fleming, died March 2, 2010, after a lengthy illness. He was 62. DeVito
KeyBanc analyst Steve Barger has upgraded the shares of American Railcar Industries and the Greenbrier Cos. from "Hold" to "Buy" and, at the same time, reaffirmed his "Buy" rating on a third freight railcar
New Mexico’s Rail Runner Express, next week will begin serving a new station Kewa Pueblo Station, located on tribal land between Santa Fe and Albuquerque, N.M. Augusta Meyers of the Mid-Region Council
Pittsburgh-based Portec Rail Products Inc. said its fourth-quarter earnings fell 5%, as a tax gain and cost-cutting efforts partially offset a steep decline in sales. Portec earned $1.4 million, or 15 cents
Philip Edwin Pierce, who retired from Safetran Systems (now Invensys Rail) as Vice President of Marketing, Sales, and Service in 2000, died March 11, 2010. He was 75. Pierce began his long
The Michigan State University Railway Management Program (RMP), now in its second year, is undergoing significant improvements, including an upgrade in location and addition of a master’s program. MSU is consolidating the
Russia’s ICT Group, an industrial financing and development firm consisting of more than 20 companies in various Russian industries including railways, is principal developer of Tikhvin Railway Car Building Plant (TVSZ), a
Responding to request from the state of Maine and other concerned parties, the Surface Transportation Board has decided to hold a public hearing this spring in Maine on the application of the Montreal, Maine
Wabtec Corp. announced Monday that it has purchased Xorail LLC for $40 million in cash and that it expects the transaction to be accretive in the first year. Based in Jacksonville, Fla., Xorail has
The American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association says registration for its annual meeting in Orlando, Fla., is available onlinethis year, as in the past, and urges early registration. “Register by March
New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority says it is evaluating a plan to establish wireless Internet services at Grand Central Terminal and Penn Station-New York, both in Manhattan, and for Metro-North and Long
In a report characterized by Washington Area Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Board Chairman Peter Benjamin as “withering,” former WMATA General Manager David Gunn (pictured at left) says it will take three years for a
At a meeting Thursday in Washington, D.C., Amtrak officials said ridership for the first fiscal quarter of 2010 (Oct.-Dec. 2009) was up over the comparable period in FY09, when ridership declined due
The Association of American Railroads has announced that Thomas L. Farmer will join its Safety & Operations department staff as assistant vice president, security, effective April 5, 2010. Farmer will be responsible
Amtrak and the Kansas Department of Transportation have released a feasibility study for a possible intercity rail passenger service to link Kansas City and Fort Worth, Tex., thorough an extension of Amtrak’s
