Carload Express, Inc. (Carload) has sought Surface Transportation Board (STB) approval to acquire Maryland & Delaware Railroad Company (MDDE) through the purchase of outstanding equity shares from parent company Old Line Holdings
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
As reported in Part 18 of this series, it appeared that the TBTA (Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority) would start collecting congestion pricing tolls on Jan. 5 and sending the revenue to
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
*UPDATED PER REVISED SJJPA AND SJRRC PRESS RELEASES, ISSUED 1/6: The San Joaquin Joint Powers Authority (SJJPA) and the San Joaquin Regional Rail Commission (SJRRC) on Jan. 6 announced several grant awards
For the 52-week period ending Dec. 28, 2024, total U.S. rail traffic of 25,178,586 carloads and intermodal units was up 3.4% from same point in 2023, according to the Association of American Railroads (AAR). This is based on intermodal gains (up 9.3% to 13,842,174 units) compensating for carload losses (down 2.9% to 11,336,412 units).
This commentary is in response to the article “Point-of-Use ZE an Incomplete Picture,” by Nicholas Little, Railway Age, Nov. 20, 2024, which was in response to my Jan. 3, 2024 article, “ZE
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s (PANY/NJ) Board of Commissioners last month unanimously reelected the Chairman, Vice Chairman and Executive Director, as well as all other incumbent officers, including Secretary, General Counsel, Chief Financial Officer, Comptroller, and Treasurer.
Inflationary pressure and monetary policy uncertainty are among the key concerns that could impact the supply chain in 2025, according to ITS Logistics’ latest report.
Hitachi Rail Honolulu JV (HRH), principal DBOM (design-build-operate-maintain) contractor for the Skyline automated rapid transit project, has sued the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation (HART) for approximately $325 million over project delays
Wabtec Corporation acquires Bloom Engineering, Inc. Also, the Conference of Minority Transportation Officials’ Northern California chapter honors HNTB Corporation.
The Parsons and LINC Austin team is selected as Delivery Partner for the Austin Light Rail project. Also, construction work on the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s (WMATA) Blue, Orange, and Silver lines wraps up ahead of schedule and under budget.
Director of Transportation Jeffrey Tumlin announces his departure from the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA). Also, the American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association (ASLRRA) mourns the passing of Robert Grossman, who was inducted into the Short Line Railroad Industry Hall of Fame last spring; and Savage announces that President and CEO Kirk Aubry is retiring. He will be succeeded by Jeff Roberts.
Subsidiaries of Pittsburg, Kans.-based Watco and Jacksonville, Fla.-based Patriot Rail reach safety milestones. Also, Genesee & Wyoming’s (G&W) Heart of Georgia Railroad property celebrates its “silver” anniversary.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) and Genesee & Wyoming subsidiary Berkshire & Eastern Railroad (B&E) have ratified a new agreement governing rates of pay, benefits, and work rules for 32
Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) is named to Dow Jones’s 2024 Sustainability North American Index. Also, Norfolk Southern (NS) highlights 10 ways it “powered progress” in 2024.
In 2024, Norfolk Southern’s Operation & Awareness Response (OAR) program trained more than 5,500 first responders with specialized training and resources at 20 cities on the Class I’s network. More than 2,000
The first locomotive to successfully use an AC (alternating current) three-phase asynchronous traction motor drive system was the German DE2500 diesel-electric in 1971, built by Henschel-BBC. DB (Deutsche Bundesbahn) Class 202, an
