Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) marks its anniversary with rides on 1920s-era vintage rapid transit cars. Also, Maryland Department of Transportation Maryland Transit Administration (MDOT MTA) launches a mobile safety app for riders; and the Transit-Friendly Employer program at Metro Vancouver’s TransLink reaches a milestone.
CSX President and CEO Steve Angel hosts a town hall to connect with employees. Also, CSX introduces the Badger Overland Commander Trailer; and BNSF congratulates Tristar Transload, Inc., on the official opening of its Muscat Spur Terminal.
Brightline West’s 218-mile railroad from Southern California to Las Vegas will now cost $21.5 billion, $5.5 billion more than the initial projection of $16 billion, according to a Bloomberg report.
Rail components and services provider A. Stucki Company (Stucki) on Oct. 2 reported acquiring Wheelworx, a railcar wheelset reconditioning services supplier. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Wheelworx has 105 employees at manufacturing
Operation Lifesaver, Inc. (OLI) on Oct. 1 released its 2024 Annual Report with audited financials, “capturing a year of strategic growth, inclusive outreach and data-driven impact,” as the nonprofit continues its mission to “empower individuals to make safer choices around tracks and trains.”
Pricing continues to decelerate in the third quarter, running well below the survey’s average. Business growth expectations worsen, akin to COVID lows. Economic confidence skews negative. Shippers would move LSD volume onto rails if transcon service offered. Rail earnings likely driven by M&A discussion despite incrementally weakening business conditions.
We lower Q3 EPS estimates below current consensus for both Eastern carriers, while modestly raising estimates for UNP, driven by outperformance in IM and coal. Broader freight demand remains challenged though M&A likely to continue to be center stage for most investor focus.
On July 30, 2025, at the Surface Transportation Board, Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern filed a notice of intent to file an Application for authority to merge. The earliest the Application may
WATCHING WASHINGTON, RAILWAY AGE, OCTOBER 2025 ISSUE: The proposed marriage of Union Pacific (UP) and Norfolk Southern (NS) to form the first U.S. seamless Atlantic to Pacific transcontinental railroad is a mesmerizing drama intensified by two forceful personalities.
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Robert Primus, who was removed from his position on the Surface Transportation Board (STB) on Aug. 27, in a move that Democracy Forward and Justice Legal Strategies, which are representing Primus, say,
The POTUS 47 administration will “withhold” approximately $18 billion in funding previously awarded for at least two rail-related infrastructure projects in the New York City area, according to reports in The New York Times and CNBC on Oct. 1.
The federal government entered a partial shutdown at 12:01 a.m. ET on Oct. 1, 2025, after both Republican and Democratic funding proposals failed in the Senate.
U.S. rail traffic rose modestly for the week ending Sept. 27 and realized a slight gain through 2025’s first 39 weeks, vs. the same points last year, the Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported Oct. 1.
The New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Board approves fare and toll increases. Also, LA Metro expands cell service availability to the K Line.
The Port of Savannah on Sept. 30 announced that it handled 534,037 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) in August, an increase of 44,000 TEUs, or 9% year-over-year, “representing the third highest month in the Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) history. Container volumes were 1,010,725 TEUs fiscal year-to-date through August, 3.2% higher than last year.
The Gateway Development Commission (GDC) Board of Commissioners on Sept. 30 authorized expanding the use of the delivery partner model for construction of the Gateway Program Hudson Tunnel Project, which is building
Association of American Railroads (AAR) subsidiary MxV Rail on Sept. 30 announced that Lee Nelson has been selected as Executive Director of the Security and Emergency Training Center (SERTC). He brings more than two decades of hazardous materials emergency response expertise and returns to SERTC during a period of “transformative growth and modernization.”
The Surface Transportation Board (STB) on Sept. 30 issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that it said would “streamline and improve reporting requirements for Class I rail carriers, proposing to eliminate the now-unnecessary supplemental reporting of Positive Train Control (PTC) expenditures and proposing to require the reporting of two critical metrics for the Board’s objective to ensure rail service reliability.”
There is a lot happening at Brightline Florida, the nation’s only private-sector intercity passenger railroad, which runs essentially hourly service between downtown Miami and Orlando International Airport (MCO). While we ran a
