Union Pacific Chairman and CEO Jim Young, Iowa Department of Transportation Director Nancy Richardson, and Boone, Iowa, Mayor John Slight Thursday commemorated one of North America’s tallest double-track railroad bridges, the new
The Association of American Railroads reported Thursday that U.S. rail carload traffic for the week ending Sept. 26 felt the impact of severe flooding halted freight shipments in Georgia and Tennessee for three days,
Cary, N.C.-based Railinc says it has successfully launched the new Umler system, replacing a 40-year-old legacy system with modern web-based technology. The Umler system is a mission-critical application for the freight rail
Numerous U.S. states, singly or in groups, have jockeyed for a portion of the $8 billion in federal stimulus funds to advance one of 10 proposed high speed rail routes nationwide. Subtract
Los Angeles-based AECOM Technology Corp. Wednesday said it has been awarded a $19.3 million extension contract, the first of three possible one-year option periods, from Dallas Area Rapid Transit to complete the
The Long Island Rail Road’s $6.5 billion East Side Access Project reached another milestone Tuesday with the award of a $659 million contract covering what is known as the Queens Bored Tunnels and Structures
Seattle’s City Council Transportation Committee has given its blessing to a two-mile First Hill streetcar line, to serve Seattle’s Capitol Hill, First Hill, and International District areas and connect to the city’s
U.S. light rail operations seldom expand beyond a single state; St. Louis Metro’s MetroLink light rail is a prime exception, while TriMet is willing to grow its LRT operations in Portland, Ore.,
Straddled with budget woes that have put a severe strain onexisting light rail and bus services, St. Louis Metro nonetheless is solicitinginput to develop a long-term plan to expand service reach and
Operation Lifesaver, Inc. Tuesday said federal statistics show that inattentive drivers contribute to approximately 3% of all vehicle-train crashes at highway-rail grade crossings. In addition, 20% of grade crossing collisions involve motor
Former Federal Railroad Administrator Gil Carmichael, who also is the founding Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Intermodal Transportation Institute (ITI) at the University of Denver, will provide closing remarks
Pittsburgh-based L.B. Foster Co. said Tuesday it has been awarded a $2.1 million contract to supply direct fixation fasteners and bonded insulated joints for the first phase of the new Dallas Area
With several freight rail corridor development public-private partnerships under way or in planning, Norfolk Southern has launched TheFutureNeedsUs.com, a new website focusing on the public benefits of these projects. “TheFutureNeedsUs.com describes projects
Norfolk Southern on Monday unveiled what it’s calling “the latest in alternative energy locomotive technology” at its Juniata Locomotive Shop in Altoona, Pa.: NS 999, a prototype 1,500-hp switching locomotive that relies
The National Gateway coalition, which includes CSX Corp., Monday announced that it has been honored as “Competitiveness Project of theYear” by the North American Strategic Infrastructure Leadership Forum, an infrastructure identification and
Dapco Industries, Inc., Ridgefield, Conn., and Simmons Machine Tool Corp., Albany, N.Y., have signed an agreement to offer Dapco’s Turnkey Ultrasonic Inspection Systems for use with the Simmons Stanray and Hegenscheidt U2000-400
The Surface Transportation Board has determined that the railroad industry’s pre-tax cost of capital for 2008 was 11.75%, slightly higher than the previous year’s 11.53%. This means there’s still a wide gap
Bombardier Transportation’s joint venture, Bombardier Sifang (Qingdao) Transportation Ltd., will build 80 ZEFIRO 380 very high speed (236 mph) trains (1,120 cars) for the Chinese Ministry of Railways (MOR). The contract covers the supply of
As rail freight traffic rebounds, making sense of “volume volatility” has been difficult, says Dahlman Rose & Co. Director Equity Research and Railway Age Contributing Editor Jason Seidl in his latest weekly
Safetran Systems Corp., an Invensys Rail company, has appointed Glenn Sieja Vice President, Projects & Engineering, with responsibility for the strategic direction and daily management of Safetran’s transit project and application engineering
