BNSF named Steve Bobb executive vice president and chief marketing officer, with responsibility for BNSF’s sales, marketing, customer service, economic development and business unit activities. He succeeds John Lanigan, who has decided to retire effective Jan. 15, 2013.
October’s final week was not a busy one for U.S. railroads. The Association of American Railroads report for the week ending October 27, 2012, shows U.S. railroads originating 287,104 carloads, down seven percent compared with the same week last year. Intermodal volume for the week totaled 253,186 trailers and containers, up 3.9 percent compared with the same week last year.
The Columbus and Greenville Railway (CAGY), was recently named Shortline of the Year at BNSF ‘s annual “Shortline Conference” held last month in Irving, Texas.
New York-area public transit riders now have free access to limited service on Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Long Island Rail Road, Metro-North, and New York City Transit lines. New Jersey Transit has opened one light rail line linking Camden and Trenton, N.J.
Freight operations in the Northeast are slowly returning to normal along the destruction path left by Hurricane Sandy.
Boston’s Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) has awarded Alstom Transport two rail fleet modernization contracts with a combined value of approximately $220 million.
Hurricane Sandy, the worst storm of its type to hit the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area in generations, had a devastating impact upon the region’s passenger rail systems, the busiest in the nation.
The Kansas City streetcar proposal has received funds from the Mid-America Regional Council’s (MARC) Board of Directors totaling $ 17.7 million.
Seattle, Wash., has secured funding to plan and design the First Hill Streetcar line’s Broadway Extension.
A new locomotive maintenance facility that will serve the Indiana Northeastern Railroad, a 123-mile short line headquartered in Hillsdale, Mich., was dedicated on Friday, Oct. 26.
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Norfolk Southern announced Friday that Timothy J. Drake, vice president engineering, will retire Oct. 31 and will be succeeded by Michael J. Wheeler, formerly vice president transportation. Succeeding Wheeler will be Terry N. Evans, formerly vice president process engineering.
Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART), expanding its system from its namesake territory into California’s Silicon Valley, has awarded a $10 million contract to Cubic Transportation Systems, Inc., to install a regionally interoperable Clipper® Card payment system to its new customers.
Expanding light rail transit reach in the Los Angeles basin could next include a 20-mile LRT line from LA’s Union Station to downtown Santa Ana, in Orange County, Calif.
Iowa Pacific Holdings, LLC and the Adirondack Rail Preservation Society (ARPS) have reached a Memorandum of Understanding to establish tourist passenger service on the Adirondack Railroad, linking its namesake state park in upstate New York to New York City with Pullman sleeping car service.
Cliff Henke, a Senior Principal Technical Specialist at Parsons Brinckerhoff, has received the American Public Transportation Association’s 2012 Outstanding Public Transportation Business Member of the Year Award.
For the week ending Oct. 20, 2012, a key difference in the continuing slump in U.S. freight carload traffic is the number of commodity groups affected, according to data released Thursday by the Association of American Railroads.
American Railcar Industries, Inc. late Wednesday reported third-quarter net earnings of $14 million, or 66 cents per share, which ARI said was “a new quarterly record,” and up dramatically from $4 million, or 19 cents a share, in the third quarter of 2011.
The Andersons, Inc. announced the start of construction on a 27,300 square-foot railcar paint and blast shop adjacent to its repair facility in Maumee, Ohio. The facility is to be completed in the spring 2013.
Trinity Industries late Wednesday reported year-over-year third-quarter revenue growth of 19% and earnings per common diluted share growth of 100%.
