When you’re carrying the world’s freight, it can be hard to change direction. It’s a challenge that every railroad and railroad customer faces. But rail is an industry that’s known for doing the impossible: learning from mistakes, adapting to become smarter, and evolving to do a big job even better.
WATCHING WASHINGTON, RAILWAY AGE, MARCH 2025 ISSUE: Amidst the societal chaos midst the societal chaos unleashed on official Washington by POTUS 47, a point of light is his choice of six-year STB veteran Patrick J. Fuchs, age 37, to chair the independent (from Executive Branch) Surface Transportation Board (STB), whose five members are Senate confirmed with the President selecting one to control the docket.
Dick Davidson looks back on his life with a touch of amazement and a hefty helping of gratitude. At age 83, he still marvels at its trajectory: a Kansas boy raised by a single mother on a farm without indoor plumbing who joined the railroad as a brakeman to help pay for college and, after graduation, stayed to become chairman and CEO of Union Pacific Railroad.
Elon Musk, POTUS 47’s First Pal and sometimes favorite Elmo when not mistaken for the real POTUS, suggested March 5 that Amtrak and the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) be privatized.
The future of the controversial Congestion Pricing toll for vehicles entering the downtown and Midtown areas of Manhattan is in court once again. After nearly a dozen cases filed in federal courts
It was strange to see in Railway Age an attack on New York City’s congestion pricing plan, “More Fun Times and Unintended Consequences Ahead?” by Financial Editor David Nahass. He dismissed the concept
The railroad industry is at a pivotal juncture. For decades, it has steadily ceded freight market share to trucks, an erosion that—if left unchecked—will continue to diminish rail’s relevance in the broader
On Jan. 4, the last of what started as nearly a dozen court battles over Congestion Pricing in Manhattan seemed essentially over. There were still a few issues to be resolved in
The hits just keep coming with another arctic blast this week and some extensive flooding, primary impacting Norfolk Southern in Southern West Virginia, Eastern Kentucky, Southwest Virginia and Eastern Ohio, resulting in
News Item: The President issued an Executive Order Feb. 18 asserting direct control of independent (from the Executive Branch) federal agencies, including the National Mediation Board (NMB, which administers the Railway Labor