Carbon-reduction legislation approved by the House of Representatives in late June and ready for consideration by the Senate could sharply erode the earnings of coal-fired power generating plants and, by extension, the
Canadian Pacific has signed a three-year contract for Anchor Brake shoes with Watertown, N.Y.-based New York Air Brake Corp. The Anchor Brake shoe products include high and low friction composition shoes as
Sheridan, Colo.-based Lat-Lon, LLC Tuesday announced its new Mobile App, designed to allow field personnel and managers to log on, select a remote asset, get current message data,and map location in real
The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority may appeal acourt order requiring two subway-access elevators near City Hall. U.S. District Judge Gene E.K. Pratter last Friday ruled in favor of disabled passengers who sued
Los Angeles’s 8.6-mile, $862 million Expo light rail line connecting downtown and Culver City could face construction delays pushing the project’s completion date back by as little as six weeks, or up to a year. The line originally was to open next summer; an estimate provided to the Expo Line Construction Authority Board pegged the delay at 50 weeks.
The American Public Transportation Foundation will be holding its annual Gala Reception on Oct. 5, 2009, during the APTA Annual Meeting in Orlando, Fla., at the JW Marriott Grande Lakes. This year’s
RailComm’s Domain Operations Controller (DOC®) train control system has been selected to replace the existing Centralized Traffic Control (CTC) office system for Denver Regional Transportation District’s Central Corridor light rail transit line. RailComm’s DOC®:CTC
East Rutherford, N.J.-based PTSI Transportation is conducting a one-day seminar Oct. 23, entitled "Railroad and Rail Transit Physical Characteristics Training and Testing: Are we where we need to be?" The event will
Dallas Area Rapid Transit bolstered its reputation for aggressive light rail transit growth by opening Monday for revenue service the first three miles of its Green Line through South Dallas to Fair
Portland, Ore.’s TriMet MAX light rail system, considered by many the model of North American LRT operations, opened its new 8.3-mile GreenLine extension southeast to nearby Clackamas Saturday. The $575.7 million line
Amtrak once again is willing to move to the current James A.Farley Post Office Building, across the street from its existing Penn Station facility in Manhattan, as part of a deal with
Resuming a push for streetcar expansion interrupted by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, New Orleans’ Regional Transit Authority is advocating additions (or extensions) to its existing operations, at a projected cost of $212
By Tony Kruglinski, Financial Editor I would like to use this month’s Financial Edge to comment on the standards of honesty and ethical behavior that we have come to expect in our
By William C. Vantuono, Editor One of the best ways to compare the performance of the railroads against the economy is to examine some of the data that economists—those people that practice
U.S. railroads reported 327 fatalities in the first six months of 2009, mostly due to trespassing and highway-rail grade crossing collisions. That was an 11.9% improvement over the 371 fatalities reported in
Canadian National Friday officially opened its new C$14 million (US$13 million) Toronto Automotive Compound at MacMillan yard, north of the Ontario provincial capital. The new facility’s track layout will accommodate the unloading
The Federal Railroad Administration has awarded $28 million for continued planning of a proposed maglev operating linking downtown Pittsburgh with the city’s international airport. The proposal has survived for nearly 30 years,
Jay Walder, confirmed by the New York State Senate Thursday as the new chairman and CEO of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, has vowed to initiate change within the organization, starting with its
The Association of American Railroads late Thursday reported that, while U.S. freight rail carloads of 1,116,182 for August were 16.4% lower compared with the same month last year, the percentage decline for
Seven of the 19 carload freight commodity groups charted by the Association of American Railroads showed gains for the week ended September 5, compared with the corresponding week in 2008. The gains
