Interview with AREMA president AREMA PresidentBob Boileau of BNSF looks back as he nears the end of his term inoffice as head of AREMA and does a little forecasting about what hesees ahead for the association.

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

Bridge As Michigan State University grew, traffic soared on aroad with the bucolic name of Farm Lane. Today, two rail bridges thatwill span Farm Lane open up the southern entrance to the campus. Thisstory details these bridges from challenges to aesthetics.

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