Tanco Terminals Expands Ports of Indiana-Burns Harbor

Tanco Terminals, which stores and performs value-added services for liquid cargoes from petroleum to food-grade oils, is constructing an $8.2 million expansion of its liquid tank farm at Ports of Indiana-Burns Harbor

NYMTA Exercising 435-car R211 Option

The New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is exercising Option 2 with Kawasaki Rail Car Inc. for 435 additional R211 rapid transit railcars—355 R211A/S (traditional closed-end) cars and 80 R211T open-gangway cars.

BNSF Adds Four Certified Sites

BNSF has awarded Certified Sites designation to four new locations: Everett, Spokane and Plymouth, Wash.; and Springfield, Mo., with acreage ready for industrial development. The Certified Sites program, the railroad said, “is

People News: NS, TNW Corporation

Norfolk Southern (NS) names Felismina “Mina” De Oliveira as Vice President Enterprise Resources. Also, TNW Corporation appoints Dan Blank to Director of Sales.

HESR, ISRR Teamsters Ratify New Contracts

Thirty-seven workers at the Huron and Eastern Railway (HESR) and the Indiana Southern Railroad (ISRR), represented by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) of the Teamsters Rail Conference, have ratified

CREATE Secures $290MM for 75th Street Corridor

The Chicago Region Environmental and Transportation Efficiency (CREATE) Program has been awarded more than $290 million in USDOT grants for the 75th Street Corridor Improvement Project (CIP), described as “the largest rail chokepoint

RazorSecure, Mitsubishi Electric, EKE-Electronics Partner to Strengthen Cybersecurity

RazorSecure Ltd., a UK-based specialist in rail cybersecurity solutions, along with Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Mitsubishi Electric Europe B.V., and Finland-based EKE-Electronics Ltd., have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on

Class I Briefs: UP, NS, CPKC

Union Pacific (UP) Executive Vice President, Marketing and Sales Kenny Rocker provides a railroad status report. Also, Norfolk Southern (NS) dedicates a special holiday train to support its work with the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation and hosts its first Customer Advisory Board meeting; and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) employees participate in the Class I’s most recent quarterly Safety Walkabout.

NYMTA Extends Tap-and-Go Fare Technology to Reduced-Fare Customers

The New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) on Dec. 13 announced that tap-and-go fare technology is now available to nearly all riders with the conversion of Reduced-Fare customers from MetroCard to OMNY.

NJT Breaks Ground on County Yard and Delco Lead Storage and Inspection Facility Project

NJ Transit on Dec. 12 broke ground on the County Yard and Delco Lead Storage and Inspection Facility Project, part of the agency’s Resilience Program to provide an additional resilient storage location for

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