Following an infusion of $1.3 billion in capital (over and above the $13 billion over five years authorized last year) and indirect access to $8 billion in state-administered funds under President Obama’s economic stimulus program, Amtrak President and CEO Joseph Boardman is faced with determining how best to invest this near-windfall within a relatively short time frame.
Virginia’s Arlington County, west of Washington, D.C., is set to commit $3 million for environmental planning and preliminary design of the Columbia Pike Streetcar, expected to cost $120 million. The county board is expected to approve the measure.
Christine Barney, a former Federal Trade Commissioner who has been nominated by President Obama to be the chief antitrust enforcement officer at the Department of Justice, thinks legislation to take away the railroads’ remaining antitrust exemptions is “terrific.”
An unknown assailant threw a handgrenade from a passing car into the Kyiv-Pasazhyrsky rail station in Kyiv (Kiev), Ukraine, early Wednesday morning, March 11, 2009, according to the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). Seven people were injured by the explosion, and were hospitalized, but no fatalities resulted, SBU said.
Montana House Bill 422, advanced by those seeking to weigh down short line Tongue River Railroad’s efforts to extend its right-of-way to coal deposits, has stalled. The bill, backed by some state landowners and by environmentalists, seeks to make eminent domain procedures more difficult.
The Surface Transportation Board on March 10 approved the formation of Pan Am Southern LLC, which Norfolk Southern Railway Company and Pan Am Railways, Inc. (including Pan Am subsidiaries Boston and Maine
The Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management (NESCAUM), in partnership with the Providence & Worcester (P&W) Railroad, will install auxiliary power units on 17 locomotives built between 1969 and 1988. Designed to reduce unnecessary idling, the new units will cut the amount of particulate matter (PM) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) released into the air. Reducing fuel consumption will also reduce carbon dioxide emissions by approximately 1,700 tons per year.
Hirschmann Automation and Control (PAT), Chambersburg, Pa., has named Laguna Crane & Field Service (Aransas Pass) and Universal Crane (Huntsville) Premier Dealers for the state of Texas. Both companies are full service
The Surface Transportation Board announced March 10 that it has instituted a proceeding responding to a Union Pacific request that the board “determine the extent of the common carrier obligation to quote rates for new, lengthy movements of chlorine, a toxic inhalation hazard (TIH).”
RailComm, Inc. has been selected to provide a wireless remote control derail system at Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad’s RIP Track Facility. A customized Local Control Panel located within the shop will provide wireless remote control to the derails.
Manhattan’s redesigned and repositioned South Ferry subway station, the recipient of $530 million in rehabilitation, will open March 16, New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority says.
Manhattan’s redesigned and repositioned South Ferry subway station, the recipient of $530million in rehabilitation, will open March 16, New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority says. The upgraded station, served by the No.
Electro-Motive Diesel Inc. plans to eliminate 347 jobs at its McCook, Ill., plant as early as April, according to a layoff notice filed with the state of Illinois. The move follows previous plans announced earlier to cut 600 jobs at EMD’s London, Ontario, facility.
Fortune magazine has awarded Union Pacific the title of “Most Admired” railroad in its annual survey of American companies, Fortune said. UP scored first among all railroads in the key areas of innovation, people management, use of corporate assets, social responsibility, quality of management, financial soundness, long-term investment, and global competitiveness.
On May 18, 2009, the Institution of Railway Signal Engineers-North American Section (IRSE-NAS) will hold its Annual General Meeting at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center in Nashville, Tenn., in conjunction with the Railway Systems Suppliers, Inc. (RSSI) 2009 Exposition.
Gov. David A. Paterson Monday released the 2009 New York State Rail Plan with a “comprehensive strategy forsupporting freight and intercity passenger rail service.” The plan includes “an inventoryof freight and passenger
Gov. David A. Paterson Monday released the 2009 New York State Rail Plan with a “comprehensive strategy forsupporting freight and intercity passenger rail service.”
Railway Age magazine has named Wilmington, Calif.-based Pacific Harbor Line, Inc. 2009 Short Line Railroad of the Year, and the Wisconsin & Southern Railroad Co. 2009 Regional Railroad of the Year. The awards will be presented at the American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association’s annual meeting in Las Vegas, Nev., April 25-28.
Following a successful pilot program on the Canadian Pacific Northern Ontario Service Area and last year’s Total Friction Management™ program rollout in Western Canada, Portec Rail Products, Inc. is now offering Total Friction Management™ to the rail industry.
