As this is written, much of the railroad world awaits the Thursday, May 17, vote by Canadian Pacific share owners. Early book betting says that insurgent hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management and its head William Ackman will take a majority if not all of the seven contested board seats.
Parsons Brinckerhoff said Wednesday it has been awarded two significant contracts covering design of both high speed and ‘conventional’ railway systems for Britain’s second high speed rail line, linking Birmingham and London’s Euston Station.
MTA Metro-North Railroad announced that it has completed Phase 1 of the West of Hudson Regional Transit Access Alternatives Analysis Study, and is now embarking on Phase 2. The agency will hold an open house in Newburgh, N. Y. (Orange County) next month to present the latest information on the study.
City Council members in El Paso, Tex., on Tuesday voted 6-to-2 to approve $1.25 million for an engineering and environmental assessment for a streetcar system.
On June 23, GO Transit will begin running a summer weekend GO Train service pilot along its Barrie line, which runs north from Toronto toward Lake Simcoe. This service pilot will operate on Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays between June 23 and September 3, GO Transit says.
Bombardier Transportation Wednesday said it is celebrating the start of passenger services on the newly extended INNOVIA APM 100 automated people mover (APM) system at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
The Surface Transportation Board on May 14 approved a request by Iowa Pacific Holdings to reopen a rail route deep in Adirondack State Park, N.Y., dismissing protests from an environmental group seeking to block reactivation.
The American Public Transportation Association (APTA) and Building America’s Future (BAF) Tuesday released a study predicting that record numbers of Americans will turn to public transportation as a cost-cutting measure in the face of volatile gas prices.
Bombardier Transportation’s INNOVIA Automated People Mover 200 rolling stock began operations testing Monday on the Sky Train at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport.
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TÜV Rheinland said Monday it is celebrating 140 years of delivering premier independent certification, testing, and assessment services to businesses around the world.
Amtrak’s Downeaster expansion reached a milestone Monday with the official completion of new station platforms in Brunswick and Freeport, Me., which have not seen passenger rail service since 1959.
Following the finish of the May 12 Bojangles Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway, Regan Smith’s no. 78 Furniture Row Racing/CSX Play It Safe Chevrolet looked like it had been sideswiped by a freight train—which made his top-20 finish all the more impressive.
L.B. Foster Co., an infrastructure products supplier, announced Monday that the will sell its railway securement business in a transaction scheduled for completion at mid-year.
Regan Smith, the defending champion of the Southern 500 at Darlington (S.C.) Raceway, notched a top-10 starting position for tonight’s Bojangles’ Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway.
Invensys Rail Corp. has acquired privately held PHW, Inc. from the current owner/managers for up to $24 million. Invensys says the acquisition was completed May 10. Pittsburgh-based PHW, Inc. will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of Invensys Rail Corp.
Construction of the Central Corridor LRT Project is 50% complete, with a 75% mark anticipated by the end of the year, according to the Metropolitan Council, which among other duties oversees light rail construction in Minnesota’s Twin Cities.
Norfolk Southern is inviting “everyone with a stake in rail operations—communities, businesses, and informed observers such as rail fans”—to join its new online security program, “Protect the Line.”
Amtrak’s Gateway Tunnel project, designed to add rail capacity on the Northeast Corridor under the Hudson River, will get its “fair share” of fiscal support from New Jersey, the state’s transportation commissioner says.
Amtrak Friday unveiled its long-anticipated reorganization of its Operations management structure, saying it has created “four business lines to establish clear accountability for the financial performance of individual trains and to improve customer service delivery.” The Operations reorganization plan will be rolled out in phases during the next 16 months, with full transition to the new structure in October 2013.
