Editor‘s note: Jim Tilley recently wrote to Amtrak Board Chair Anthony Coscia regarding procurement of a new long-distance fleet. We reproduce this letter in its entirety and will likewise publish a response
At least weekly if not more, Dave Anderson makes the 130-mile drive from Newton, Kans., to Topeka, Kans., and back—all for the love of music and tradition. As director of the Topeka Santa Fe Band, he’s dedicated to making sure the band plays on, especially because 2024 marks its 100th anniversary.
I am a market economist and I’d sooner eat a bucket of ballast than have it said that I prefer any other market structure over competition or that government intervention is a
On Feb. 21, three days after Ancora Holdings announced its intention to replace a majority of the Norfolk Southern Board of Directors and the railroad’s chief executive and chief operating officers, Federal
Here is an inside look at how we achieved it.
Norfolk Southern Marketing leaders recently updated industry professionals on how rail is providing answers to supply chain issues during a local meeting of the Council for Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP).
The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), which is looking toward adding more routes to the nation’s skeletal long-distance passenger train network, revealed the proposed new routes, many of which either ran before Amtrak
I’ll start with the good news, which concerns volume trends in the three reported weeks following the Arctic Blast, which struck the railroads in the third week of January. The quick operational
The Surface Transportation Board (STB) held another hearing Feb. 14 about the slow pace of getting two Amtrak Gulf Coast Service passenger trains in each direction running between New Orleans and Mobile.
Railway Age recently reported on the proposed Sunshine Corridor in Central Florida, which is slated to connect Brightline’s newly opened northern terminal at Orlando Airport with points west and southwest in the
