OmniTRAX completes purchase agreement for San Luis & Rio Grande
OmniTRAX’s purchase of the San Luis & Rio Grande (SLRG), a former Iowa Pacific shortline, is essentially complete.
OmniTRAX’s purchase of the San Luis & Rio Grande (SLRG), a former Iowa Pacific shortline, is essentially complete.
The Iowa Transportation Commission this week approved $6.3 million in funding for six rail infrastructure and related rail development projects under the Railroad Revolving Loan and Grant (RRLG) Program.
The U.S. DOT’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) announced the first round of grants from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s competitive Bridge Investment Program.
With the first proposal of one end of a wildlife crossing over Ojibway Parkway in Windsor, Ontario, looking more like a zoo, city officials have agreed to take another look at the structure’s footprint.
Koppers Recovery Resources LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Koppers Holdings Inc. and an integrated global provider of treated wood products, wood treatment chemicals, and carbon compounds, announced it has entered into a new five-year, $50 million agreement with a Class 1 railroad customer to collect and manage end-of-life railroad crossties and other materials.
The top news stories of the week ending Oct. 7.
Canadian National reported that a fire on a major bridge on the Grand Cache subdivision near Latornell, Alberta, has shut down rail traffic moving in and out of the Grand Prairie area until further notice.
Savage is a global provider of industrial logistics infrastruture and supply chain services. The company employs about 4,000 people in over 200 locations.
BNSF recently announced that its engineering team and other partners have successfully completed the new second main line track, now in service, across the Emporia Subdivision, which runs from Kansas City to Wellington, Kansas. This is part of the railroad’s multi-year work on its Southern Transcon.
RT&S Managing Editor David Lester talks with the 2022 RT&S Engineer of the Year John Cech from BNSF about challenging projects, the technological movement, what it takes to work in the rail industry, and what it will take to recruit the younger generation.
The ongoing Chicago CREATE project partners accounced that Norfolk Southern has chosen Benesch to provide final track design services for the EW3-Segment B.
They are harvesting rainbows, aren’t they?
A slight ground shift in San Clemente, Calif., has forced major movement regarding the railroad right-of-way.
The Santa Fe Railway’s historic Barstow Yard in southern California has long been a vital part of the rail network in the southwestern U.S. Now, a new BNSF facility will be even larger – much larger.
It may not be until next year when the Seminole Gulf Railway sees carloads moving again on track.
The October issue of RT&S features stories on the L.A. Purple Line Extension project and how canines are used to clear sensitive areas surrounding rail projects.
In BNSF’s latest edition of Rail Talk, the focus is on the accomplishments of a production gang in Minnesota that completed important track work just before the beginning of harvest season traffic.
A 151-car-long Canadian National train derailed just outside Detroit on Sept. 29.
As part of the MBTA’s Capital Programs, the Capital Transformation team will hold a virtual pre-construction public meeting on Thursday, Oct. 13, at 6 p.m. to discuss work to be completed at Codman Yard.
The CREATE partners are pleased to announce Union Pacific has selected HDR to provide final track design and engineering services for the Union Pacific-led portion of the 80th Street Junction Replacements (EW2) project, a major component of CREATE’s 75th Street Corridor Improvement Project.