Members at BNSF’s Minneapolis Northtown shop celebrate their Safety Bell achievement. (Caption and Photograph Courtesy of BNSF)

Class I Briefs: BNSF, CPKC, CN

BNSF recognizes its 2024 Safety Bell Award honorees and partners with Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) on first-responder training in North Dakota. Also, CPKC and CN help welcome to the Port of Vancouver and Port Saint John, respectively, the first vessels from the Gemini Cooperation, a new global shipping operational collaboration between Hapag-Lloyd AG and A.P. Moller-Maersk.

For FreightCar America, ‘Strong Operational Performance’

FreightCar America, Inc. reported results for the fourth quarter and full year ended Dec. 31, 2024 that included full year revenue and gross profit up 56% and 60%, respectively. The company generated

(Image Courtesy of the Union Station Redevelopment Corporation)

Report: Amtrak to Control Washington Union Station Leasehold (UPDATED 3/13)

Amtrak has agreed to pay real estate firm Rexmark $505 million to control Washington Union Station’s commercial spaces, according to a Feb. 7 report by The Washington Post, which said that if the move is approved by a D.C. federal court judge, it would end a years-long dispute.

(Union Pacific Photograph)

AAR: U.S. Carloads, Intermodal Up for Week 10

U.S. rail traffic for the week ending March 8, 2025 (Week 10), came in at 497,412 carloads and intermodal units, rising 5.4% from the same week last year, based on 219,457 carloads—up 2.6% from 2024—and intermodal volume of 277,955 containers and trailers—up 7.7%, the Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported March 12.

Looking Beyond Diesel

NEXT-GEN SMALL-ROAD MOTIVE POWER, RAILWAY AGE MARCH 2025 ISSUE: Short lines and switching operations face several hurdles if they want to acquire locomotives powered by fuels beyond diesel. For starters, the biggest

(CPKC Photograph)

High Expectations, Hot Market

RAILWAY AGE, MARCH 2025 ISSUE: In terms of freight car types, the North American covered hopper car interchange fleet, at 570,000 units, is the largest. Within the next eight years, approximately 53,000

AASHTO Exec. Dir. Jim Tymon (left) welcomes USDOT Sec. Duffy to the 2025 AASHTO Washington Briefing. (Caption and photograph courtesy of AASHTO)

AASHTO to Duffy: Ensure ‘Uninterrupted Federal Transportation Funding’

“Given the shared priorities between the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) and the nation’s state departments of transportation (state DOTs), we are calling attention to detrimental project delivery impacts from a growing

(William C. Vantuono Photograph)

Making ‘FasTracks’ in the Mile-High City

RAILWAY AGE, MARCH 2025 ISSUE: Denver Regional Transportation District (RTD) represents an impressive success story for rail transit.

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Metra to STB: Ensure Passenger Service on UP Lines ‘Continues Uninterrupted’

Union Pacific (UP) has placed Metra’s regional/commuter rail service in Chicagoland “at risk by demanding” that it pay “economically unreasonable and monopolistic rates to continue using the UP Lines for its public service,” Metra wrote in a Surface Transportation Board (STB) application for terminal trackage rights that was submitted March 7.

Alstom is supplying 47 SkyTrain Mark V trainsets to TransLink. (Photograph Courtesy of TransLink)

SkyTrain Readies for Mark V Trainset Service

British Columbia’s TransLink has begun field testing the first of its new Mark V trainsets, which will run on the SkyTrain automated rapid transit system in metro Vancouver.

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