SEPTEMBER 2009 

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Interview with AREMA president AREMA President Bob Boileau of BNSF looks back as he nears the end of his term in office as head of AREMA and does a little forecasting about what he sees ahead for the association.

Transit m/w Chicago's Metra has some big plans in the offing and some new capital funds from the State of Illinois to back them up. We'll talk to Metra folks about their maintenance philosophy and what they see down the track for the nation's second largest commuter rail system.

Bridge As Michigan State University grew, traffic soared on a road with the bucolic name of Farm Lane. Today, two rail bridges that will span Farm Lane open up the southern entrance to the campus. This story details these bridges from challenges to aesthetics.

TTCI: Track geometry inspection using an instrumented coal car Track geometry inspection is always a valuable tool.TTCI instrumented a coal car in revenue service to provide a wealth of track geometry information about what's happening as heavy-haul traffic passes over a given stretch of track.