Canadian Northern (CN) and CSX will join together and serve more of the northeast starting Oct. 7. The two Class 1s announced a new intermodal service offering between CN’s greater Montreal &
Intermodal is still less expensive than on-road trucking, but the savings have been less over the last five years.
Crews working on the Sound Transit project are getting ready to work on the rail portion of a light-rail bridge that crosses over I-405 in Bellevue, Wash. Lanes and ramps on I-405
Bloomberg is reporting that New Jersey Transit is withholding the cost of recent expenditures for its Positive Train Control (PTC) project from public view.
Canadian Pacific Railway Limited has announced several organizational and leadership changes.
Yesterday, Metrolink Chief Executive Officer Stephanie Wiggins announced three chief-level appointments to the agency’s leadership team.
The Association of American Railroads (AAR) today reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending August 3, 2019, as well as volumes for July 2019.
The Port of Long Beach, one of the greenest ports in the world, has selected HDR to perform the final design as it moves ahead with its $870 million effort to streamline
BNSF has announced Q2 2019 financial results — Total revenues were $5.89 billion, compared to Q2 2018 revenues of $5.88 billion, essentially flat; Operating expenses dropped to $3.89 billion from $4 billion
In support of an Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) grant application, Amtrak announced a matching $750,000 contribution to reduce delays in the Pacific Northwest Rail Corridor. ODOT’s grant application, if successful, will
Metro recently announced that Theresa M. Impastato, a 20-year veteran of rail safety and operations, is the transit agency’s new EVP/Chief Safety Officer. Impastato will begin August 12.
Stanley M. Herzog, President of William E. Herzog Enterprises, died August 2nd, 2019, at the age of 70 in Missouri surrounded by friends and family.
RT&S reported Thursday (Aug. 1) that the Government Accounting Office (GAO) released a statement saying that while the railroads are making good progress on the installation of Positive Train Control (PTC) on
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Canadian National Railway announced that it has published its 2019-2020 Grain Plan and that it has established a CN Agricultural Advisory Council.
Canadian Pacific moved more Canadian grain and grain products during the 2018-2019 crop year than any year in its history. The final tally for the crop year stands at 26.8 million metric
Crews in northwest Iowa are beginning to clear a derailment that happened the evening of July 31. No injuries have been reported at this time.
Canadian Pacific has joined the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA). In joining the alliance, CP is supporting BiTA’s mission of producing blockchain standards that allow for interoperability between participants in the global
The Government Accounting Office released a statement yesterday pointing out that much work remains to be done for the railroad industry to achieve interoperability among individual PTC systems. The statement says “Full
The Association of American Railroads (AAR) today reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending July 27, 2019. For this week, total U.S. weekly rail traffic was 534,498 carloads and intermodal units,