Judge orders continued operation of UP car shop
Union Pacific and the courts continue to spar over Palestine car repair shop.
Union Pacific and the courts continue to spar over Palestine car repair shop.
The July/August Senate session will focus on a bipartisan infrastructure bill that Democrats hope to pass in the fall.
CSX fired a worker in 2019 for reporting safety concerns. OSHA took CSX to the wood shed.
Winter in Canada sees more rail/highway grade crossing accidents during the winter than during any other season of the year.
The MTA Office of the Inspector General has had it’s hands full lately.
Even though this accident was caused by a derailment, we are stepping outside of our normal coverage zone by featuring this NTSB report on tank car structural integrity because it has received so much attention over the past few years. NTSB did not determine probable cause for the derailment and did not publish a brief or report.
The Palestine Herald-Press reports there is more drama surrounding the proposed closure of Union Pacific’s Palestine car shop.
We now have a confirmed administrator of the Federal Transit Administration.
ASLRRA is very enthusiastic about the Senate’s Surface Transportation Investment Act.
The FRA and California are ready to work together again toward the development of high-speed rail.
Locomotive engineers have been qualified and trained with simulation technology for years. Through technology, the opportunity to leverage simulation beyond locomotive engineers is quickly emerging.
MidRail LLC Chairman Gil Lamphere offers his views on the competition between Canadian Pacific and CN to acquire Kansas City Southern, discussing the details of voting trusts and the role of the Surface Transportation Board, and other railroad merger-related issues, with Railway Age Editor-in-Chief William C. Vantuono.
The National Transportation Safety Board has issued its final report on the Kingman, Arizona BNSF train collision in 2018.
When one hears the name “most wanted list,” thoughts immediately go to the FBI’s most wanted list that hangs in every U.S. post office.
Amtrak will celebrate its 50th anniversary on May 1, 2021. For the entire time the agency has been operating, funding has come from annual congressional appropriations that rose and fell based largely on which political party was in power.
CN and Watco announced that they have reached an agreement for the sale of non-core lines and assets.
[Yesterday], Chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) and Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) released the report from the Department of Transportation Office of Inspector General (DOT OIG) [on the] ethics investigation into former Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reported yesterday that SEPTA wants to spend $40 million in federal funds the agency received for Covid-19 relief. However, they don’t want to spend it on Covid-19 relief.
The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) [yesterday] announced it is seeking applicants for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 round of the Infrastructure for Rebuilding America (INFRA) discretionary grant program.
Norfolk Southern has announced it has terminated plans to build a rail transfer facility on the site of the former Chattahoochee Brick Company in Atlanta.