SFMTA is establishing a working group “focused on ways to fund and cut spending at the financially strapped Municipal Transportation Agency” (Muni), San Francisco's network of bus, light rail, streetcar and cable car services, according to SFBay.ca. (SFMTA Photograph)

Transit Briefs: SFMTA, VIA Rail, Brightline, MARTA, HART

San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) is forming a working group to address projected deficits for Municipal Railway (Muni). Also, Transport Canada is requiring VIA Rail to update its emergency management action plan after riders were stranded on an intercity passenger train; Brightline, Florida’s private-sector passenger railroad, now allows travel agents and others to book its rail service with flights; Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority’s (MARTA) Atlanta headquarters earns Energy Star Certification by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); and Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation’s (HART) CEO receives a new multi-year contract.

New Siemens Plant to Build Brightline West AP 220s

Siemens Mobility is building a new plant in Horseheads, N.Y. to manufacture the American Pioneer 220 high-speed trainsets for Brightline West. Described as “North America’s first true high-speed rail production facility,” the

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MxV Rail Hosts 2024 University Days

MxV Rail in August held the annual University Days event at its Pueblo Plex test facility and the Pueblo Convention Center in Colorado. Free to university students and staff who are interested

Global Railway Market Exceeds US$220B

In its bi-annual report on the current health of the global railway market, released in time for InnoTrans, SCI Verkehr projects steady growth of 4% over the next five years, as Managing

“R.J. Corman is thrilled to start this new agreement” at its Tennessee-based distribution center, and to “continue serving the Clarksville community,” R.J. Corman Vice President of Commercial Development Mike Robinson said Sept. 3. (R.J. Corman Photograph)

R.J. Corman Gains New Clarksville Distribution Center Client

R.J. Corman’s 75,000 square-foot distribution center in Clarksville, Tenn., is transitioning to a new customer, to be served by Railway Age’s 2021 Short Line of the Year, R.J. Corman Railroad Company Memphis

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For 2023, Three Class I’s Deemed Revenue Adequate

The Surface Transportation Board (STB) has found three U.S. Class I railroads to be revenue adequate for 2023: BNSF, CSX and Union Pacific. STB determined that those railroads achieved a rate of return

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Wheel-Rail Creep Curve Development Using RCFS

MxV RAIL R&D, RAILWAY AGE SEPTEMBER 2024 ISSUE: MxV Rail’s rolling contact fatigue simulator (RCFS) is a full-scale test rig consisting of a railroad wheelset and two 56-inch-long rails attached to a

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40 Years Ago …

RAILWAY AGE, SEPTEMBER 2024 ISSUE:  The story behind Greenbrier’s Twin Stack. Think “intermodal,” and the term “double-stack” instantly comes to mind, right? That was not the case in 1984, when the then-radical

People News: NCRR, AITX, NARS

The North Carolina Railroad Company (NCRR) welcomes Patrick Pierce as its new Director of Economic & Business Development. Also, American Industrial Transport, Inc. (AITX) appoints Ashley Nelson as Chief Human Resources Officer; and TD Cowen Managing Director and Railway Age Wall Street Contributing Editor Jason Seidl is named to the North American Rail Shippers (NARS) Regional Advisory Council.

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Boxcar Requiem

RAILWAY AGE, SEPTEMBER 2024 ISSUE: Part 1: Can this multi-purpose railcar drive carload growth? Perhaps the most basic of freight cars, the boxcar has been around almost as long as the railroad

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