A $3 million Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) grant will go toward planning a new training and education program in North Carolina that’s aimed at improving safety and reducing accidents at highway/rail grade crossings.
Training locomotive CSXT 911343 is the latest addition to CSX’s Responder Incident Training (RIT) program. It’s described as “a specialized unit designed to simulate real-world scenarios, offering first responders hands-on experience to
Phoenix Rail, a joint venture of infrastructure manager Ancala and rail investment and management firm Arkadia Rail Partners (formerly Brookhaven Capital Partners), has completed acquisition of Lehigh Valley Rail Management LLC (LVRM),
CN and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) reach tentative collective agreements with the International Brotherhood of Electric Workers (IBEW) and Unifor, respectively, averting strikes. Also, Connecticut Southern Railroad (CSO), a Genesee & Wyoming subsidiary, joins the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers– Transportation Division (SMART-TD).
Norfolk Southern (NS) on Jan. 27 announced that it has appointed Lori J. Ryerkerk, former Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and President of Dallas, Texas-based Celanese Corp., a fortune 500 global chemical and specialty materials company, to the Board of Directors.
Former Surface Transportation Board (STB) Chair Ann Dawn Begeman has joined the CSX Board of Directors. Begeman’s career has spanned more than three decades in public service, primarily in the Legislative and
voestalpine Railway Systems Nortrak LLC has partnered with Müntschemier, Switzerland-based Sonneville AG. This partnership “aims to commercialize Sonneville’s patented Low-Vibration Track (LVT) System in the U.S. and Canada,” voestalpine said. “This collaboration
In 2024, the largest-ever Michigan State University Eli Broad College of Business Railway Management Certificate Program (RMCP) class assembled for the program’s 19th iteration. Some 30 people attended the four week-long residential modules
CN acquires GP38-2 locomotives directly from BNSF; Essex Terminal Railway unveils a new livery. While CN regularly acquires six-axle locomotives for main line power and has units rebuilt and repowered for modernization
The Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) welcomes Wallenius Wilhelmsen’s new Brunswick hub facility. Also, Agile Cold Storage receives its first railcar at its new cold storage facility in Macon, Ga.; and the first railcar of 100% renewable propane to be broadly marketed in Canada arrives in Prescott, Ontario.
