Watch: Significant derailment takes place in Ohio
Crews were cleaning up a 26-car derailment in Mad River Township in Ohio late last week.
Crews were cleaning up a 26-car derailment in Mad River Township in Ohio late last week.
Rio Grande Pacific Corporation (RGPC) has appointed firms for the final engineering and construction of the Uinta Basin Railway project in Utah.
Union Pacific was hauling away a local landmark late last week in Liberty, Texas.
The North Carolina Ports Authority and 13 short line railroads will be improving their rail infrastructure thanks to approximately $10.9 million in matching grant funds being awarded as part of the N.C. Department of Transportation’s Freight Rail and Rail Crossing Safety Improvement program (FRRCSI).
On May 11, the Ohio Rail Development Commission (ORDC) approved a grant in the amount of $614,456, matched by Indiana & Ohio Railway (IORY) (A Genesee & Wyoming Company) at $614,456, for a total project investment of $1,228,912.
After 20 years off the grid, the Aransas Pass railroad is back in business in Texas.
The May issue of RT&S features stories on the use of lightweight cellular concrete on bridges and the Lazelle Road bridge project, as well as a product overview of handheld tools.
The top news stories RT&S was following the week ending May 6.
Oklahoma has been hit with heavy rains this week, causing washouts for Union Pacific.
The deadline to submit your project for consideration for the 2022 RT&S Top Projects list is May 7.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s crackdown on border crossing inspections has Mexico drawing a line in the sand. Make that a line in New Mexico.
The National Railroad Construction and Maintenance Association (NRC) announced that two railway industry professionals have been appointed to its Board of Directors.
New Jersey Congressman Donald Payne, Jr., spent the afternoon of May 2 learning about critical infrastructure with leaders from Conrail, Norfolk Southern, and CSX.
Rail lines and water lines are both important in Bellingham, Wash.
The Port of Long Beach has completed construction of a new rail project that will increase efficiency of goods movement and reduce congestion on local roadways by shifting more cargo to trains.
The deadline to nominate your top project in North America for the 2022 RT&S Top Projects list is May 7.
There is plenty of rail maintenance and construction activity going on at the International Port of Coos Bay in Oregon, and an important phase was recently completed.
The Little Highline Fire in Potter County, Texas, destroyed a railroad bridge over the weekend.
We only cover steam and heritage activities when something truly special is happening, which is pretty rare. However . . .
America celebrated the 1976 bicentennial in many ways. The railroad industry celebrated in a big way by painting locomotives in bicentennial schemes.