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One Year of KB Signaling

One year after Knorr-Bremse’s acquisition of KB Signaling, the Control, Command, and Signaling (CCS) business unit based in Grain Valley, Mo., the company has been integrated into Knorr-Bremse Group. In the course

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NextGen Acela Inaugural Run Impressions

New trainsets have come to Amtrak for its Acela higher-speed service on the Northeast Corridor (NEC). The NextGen Acela trains manufactured by Alstom made their debut in a ceremonial run with trainset

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Did Primus Engineer His Own Ouster?

The firing by POTUS 47 of outspoken Surface Transportation Board (STB) member and Democrat Robert E. Primus Aug. 27 leaves the five-member agency short two members as it awaits a formal merger

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Hinrichs to Cramer: ‘Wait Until You See What We Do Over the Next Couple of Years!

CSX President and CEO Joe Hinrichs, Railway Age’s 2025 Railroader of the Year, appeared on CNBC’s “Mad Money” on Aug. 27. He and host Jim Cramer talked about the rail industry’s current

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Remembering Hurricane Katrina and Rail: 20 Years Later

In a way, the rail scene in New Orleans and on the Mississippi Gulf Coast has come full circle, within a few days of the 20th anniversary of one of the worst

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Deal Vs. No Deal

Berkshire Hathaway does not intend to purchase CSX, a move we thought was the likely outcome given the competitive offering of an East/West combination. The valuation and merger benefits are clearly not

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CPKC: Further Consolidation ‘Not Necessary’

Following weeks of feverish analysis and speculation, most of it second- and third-guessing, after Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern formally announced their betrothal, Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) has declared it “is

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BNSF Locomotive Engineer Carries On Family’s Century-Long Legacy

Few things resonate sweeter than a solid father-son relationship. That’s especially true when sons proudly follow in their father’s footsteps. For locomotive engineer Robert Burkhardt, that generational journey has run along the rails.

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Ancora Drops Rusty Anchor at CSX

Same vecchie stronzate stanche, different railroad. This time, it’s CSX. In my humble opinion, it’s non funzionerà, because we’ve seen these tactics before, at Norfolk Southern: Circle the target, buy a bunch

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UP+ NS Single-Line Service is Not an Automatic Win Button

We recently noted we’re already getting tired of writing about Union Pacific+Norfolk Southern; so, invariably, here’s a piece on UP+NS … How Powerful is Single-line Service? The ultimate success of the UP+NS

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