UP 4127 leads a manifest train out of Union Pacific’s Monahans, Tex., yard. (UP Photograph)
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How UP’s Real-Time Tech Is Powering Rail Growth

One of the busiest areas we operate in is the southern part of our network. To keep operations running smoothly there, we need to make sure our terminals—where railcars are sorted and

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Amtrak Acela ‘NextGen’—Finally! (Updated)

The first five of Amtrak’s long-awaited, Alstom-built higher-speed trainset, the “NextGen Acela” (but also called “Acela II,” “America’s high-speed train,” and “Avelia Liberty” by the builder), are set to debut on the

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Conversations at Innovation in Rail: RSI Members’ Focus on Safety

At Innovation in Rail 2025, we took advantage of this meeting of prominent railway innovation stakeholders, influencers, and legislators to ask them some questions about how technological advances can improve safety. Learn what

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Amtrak Mardi Gras Service: ‘Y’all Aboard!’

This report comes to you from New Orleans where, at this writing, a new Amtrak service started Monday, Aug. 18. Following a celebratory Aug. 16 run, Mardi Gras Service got officially under

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RSAC: A Demonstrably Successful Collaborative Body

Editor’s Note: Grady C. Cothen Jr., though he retired from the Federal Railroad Administration in 2010, has remained active in the industry, writing papers on safety-related subjects, several of which Railway Age

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Transit is Punk: Kamala Parks Went From Cofounding 924 Gilman Street to Urban Planning at BART

“Transit is punk,” according to Kamala Parks, Principal Station Planner at BART.

(CN Photograph)
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CN: Playing With Purpose

Hockey Helps The Homeless, in partnership with CN, raised C$7.8 million.

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DOT Dumps FRA’s Collaborative RSAC

Here we go with another shutdown of democratic free speech by a POTUS and his inner circle consolidating power in pursuit of a unitary form of government controlling every aspect of American

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Freight Rail Equipment Market Insights with Kate Suprenuk and David Nahass – RAIL GROUP ON AIR

This podcast, taken from Railway Age’s 2025 Rail Insights Conference, features Kate Suprenuk, President of Leasing and Manufacturing, Union Tank Car Company & Procor | Marmon, in conversation with David Nahass, President,

(Todd Novak Photograph, Courtesy of W&LE)
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W&LE: Beguiling as Ever

Call it the little railroad that did and does, and know that twice during the previous century it attracted iconic Wall Street titans nurturing seamless transcontinental schemes.

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