The U.S. Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) appoints Jebby Rasputnis as Director of Programs. Also, Rick Cotton is stepping down as Executive Director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANY/NJ); and a new President and Vice President are taking the helm at the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO).
If you think federal regulatory agencies—even federally owned Amtrak—have strayed from what former Southern Railway and Conrail CEO L. Stanley Crane termed, “stick to your knitting,” you’re not ridin’ the rails solo.
WATCHING WASHINGTON, RAILWAY AGE JUNE 2025 ISSUE: Students of freight railroading are conversant with how Congress and the Surface Transportation Board’s predecessor Interstate Commerce Commission imposed on the industry such rigid economic
The Railroad Employee Equity and Fairness (REEF) Act, incorporated into the Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 and signed into law by President Biden
The Transportation Trades Department (TTD) of the American Federation of Labor and Congress Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) on Dec. 5 sent a letter to Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP)
New York, Susquehanna & Western Railway promoted Alan A. Held to Vice President Transportation. The U.S. Railroad Retirement Board named Bob De Luca as its Chief Information Officer. Ironhorse Resources is excited
The Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) recently announced that the Senate Committee on Appropriations has approved a fiscal year (FY) 2025 funding level of $129 million. While RRB says it “appreciates the Committee’s
The Railroad Retirement Board June 27 reported that the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies has allocated $100 million for the agency’s Fiscal Year 2025
U.S. Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) Inspector General Martin J. Dickman is out as of April 28, according to The Hill, which learned from a source that President Joe Biden was firing him
WATCHING WASHINGTON, RAILWAY AGE, SEPTEMBER 2023 ISSUE: Deep within the enigma of the federal budget process is a paradoxical scheme to reduce—without actually reducing—red ink. While congressional fiscal hocus pocus is not
