CSX Awards Alexandria Fourth Track Contract to Fay, S&B USA Construction
PITTSBURGH – CSX awarded Fay, S&B USA Construction a contract for the Alexandria Fourth Track Project.
PITTSBURGH – CSX awarded Fay, S&B USA Construction a contract for the Alexandria Fourth Track Project.
RICHMOND – The Virginia Passenger Rail Authority (VPRA) announced service changes as a result of the Long Bridge Project.
FORT OGDEN, Fla. – Seminole Gulf Railway has started renewing 11.5 miles of track.
FARGO, N.D. – On November 12, BNSF’s second of three bridges opened over a stormwater diversion channel in Fargo, North Dakota.
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio Rail Development Commission (ORDC) approved eight projects with more than $81 million, two of which will be sponsored by the Rail Commission for FRA grants.
BRAINERD, Minn. – The 101 team members at the Brainerd, Minnesota facility have reached two years with no reportable injuries and ten years with only two reportable injuries.
BLYTHEWOOD, S.C. – Norfolk Southern announced the Scout Motors I-77 Rail Bridge is complete.
DARBY, Pa. – CSX completed a replacement of the Darby Diamond in Pennsylvania.
KEARNY, N.J. – On November 17, Conrail held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the new Point-No-Point Bridge that traverses the Passaic River.
ATLANTA –– Norfolk Southern announced this week that it has launched the Landmark Series, a new lineup of locomotives that will operate in revenue freight service as well as lead the company’s business trains.
ATLANTA –– Norfolk Southern Corporation today announced that its shareholders voted overwhelmingly, with nearly 99% of the shares cast in favor, to approve its previously announced transaction with Union Pacific at the company’s Special Meeting of Shareholders (the “Special Meeting”) held earlier today.
BOSTON – Joined by MassDOT, Northern New England Passenger Rail Authority, and Rail Passenger Association leaders, Amtrak celebrated the start of construction on a train maintenance facility in Boston.
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) approved more than $1.4 million in rail crossing upgrades across three Ohio counties.
CHICAGO – CN has completed project work in the Chicago region, with trains traversing on upgraded track from Liberty to Montgomery.
PHOENIX, Ariz. –– BNSF has hit some choppy air in its progress toward building a new logistics hub in Arizona.
NEW YORK –– Prior to the Staggers of Act of 1980, the only way a Class I railroad could shed the cost of marginal or money losing light density rail line was abandonment.
Joining BNSF and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) in expressing their concerns about the proposed Union Pacific (UP)-MONTREAL –– Norfolk Southern (NS) merger, CN recently launched a page on its website encouraging its customers to speak up and file a Notice of Intent to Participate with the Surface Transportation Board (STB).
KENDALLVILLE, Ind. – Patriot Rail completes a highway-rail grade crossing upgrade at Drake Road with its partners Midwest Rail, CDL Electric, and Wabtec.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Norfolk Southern and CSX replaced infrastructure components at the 14th Street Junction in Birmingham, Alabama.
LA JUNTA, Colo. – BNSF worked with the Colorado and Kansas departments of transportation and Amtrak on a track project.