Railway Age and Parsons held the 2023 Next-Generation Train Control Conference in Philadelphia on October 26 and 27. Dr. Alan Rumsey, one of the industry’s foremost, widely renowned experts on CBTC (communications-based
I have not been this optimistic about seeing real chances for future rail market share growth since about 2018. I became pessimistic during 2019, and then progressively more pessimistic with the oncoming
I have spent more than 50 years in the rail industry, all of it in the Communications & Signals segment. I will be retiring after the joint REMSA/RSSI Exhibition in Louisville, Ky.
RailWorks Corp. shares its sincere appreciation for the heroism of three employees’ actions that saved a life on L.K. Comstock’s LAX ConRAC – Arbor Vitae Street Grade Crossing Improvements project in Los
As a technical manager on BNSF’s Technology Services team, Cari Elstad understands the progression of railroad technology. That rich knowledge is partly due to her role at the railroad, and it might also be because Elstad comes from a long line of railroaders who have shared stories from working more than a century on the rails.
TIMEOUT FOR TECH, RAILWAY AGE JANUARY 2024 ISSUE: Modern railways are deeply innovative and dynamic systems. Despite this fact, I am frequently in conversations with people who wonder why “things never seem
PASSENGER RAIL OUTLOOK, RAILWAY AGE JANUARY 2024 ISSUE: Charles Dickens began A Tale of Two Cities, his saga of the French Revolution, by saying: “It was the best of times, it was
WATCHING WASHINGTON, RAILWAY AGE JANUARY 2024 ISSUE: It is observed—positively and negatively—that Class I freight railroads are lucrative ATMs for investors, dispensing from profits $253 billion in stock dividends and buybacks since
FINANCIAL EDGE, RAILWAY AGE JANUARY 2024 ISSUE: The marketing genius that was P.T. Barnum coined the oft repeated phrase “There is no such thing as bad publicity.” One only needs to search
To railroaders with active memories and to seniors like me who rode the great trains toward the end of the “Streamliner” Era, the Budd Company of Philadelphia has almost a magical historic
