Amtrak and NJ Transit on April 15 joined New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy for a working summit ahead of the 2025 summer travel season in New Jersey. Amtrak and NJ Transit presented a new progress report on the joint inspection, maintenance, and improvement program for Amtrak’s infrastructure and NJ Transit’s trains.
A Turkish company has invested hundreds of millions of dollars toward developing a soda ash supply chain that begins in Wyoming, travels west more than 1,000 miles via Union Pacific, and will
In a rare event, the Surface Transportation Board (STB) is expected to return to the U.S. Treasury in October a portion of its congressionally appropriated fiscal year 2024-2025 budget. The reason is
Bridget Hennessey joins HDR as Transit Strategic Communications Consultant. Also, Theodore O. “Ted” Haas, Senior Advisor (Emeritus) of PTSI Transportation, dies at 103; and Evertak appoints former Union Pacific (UP) Vice President of Engineering David Connell to its Tie Transformation Team.
The Port of Los Angeles processed 778,406 Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units (TEUs) in March, a 4.7% increase over the previous year, the Port reported on April 11. The Port ended the first quarter handling 2,504,049 TEUs, 5.2% ahead of last year’s strong pace.
CSX on April 14 announced 62 customers as winners of the company’s 31st Annual Chemical Safety Excellence Award for their “dedication to safely transporting hazardous materials across the company’s rail network in 2024.”
Railway Age’s third-annual “Young Professionals” conference—the industry’s only free event tailored to helping young railroaders advance their careers—will include speakers from across the freight and passenger sectors, including recipients of our 25 Under 40
CSX advances restoration of the Blue Ridge Subdivision. Also, CN resumes service in its Southern Region.
The Surface Transportation Board’s (STB) Office of Environmental Analysis (OEA) on April 11 issued a Draft Environmental Assessment (Draft EA) for Savannah Industrial Logistics (SIL) and Savannah Industrial Transportation’s (SIT) construction and operation of an 11,404-foot rail line in Effingham County, Ga. SIL and SIT are both holdings of OmniTRAX.
American Industrial Transport, Inc. (AITX) on April 14 announced that Eric Stopka has been appointed as Chief Operating Officer (COO).