RAILWAY AGE, OCTOBER 2024 ISSUE: This report focuses on CSX’s track record with Positive Train Control, some four years after it was fully deployed. How has PTC impacted safety at…

FROM THE EDITOR, RAILWAY AGE OCTOBER 2024 ISSUE: This month we dive head-first again into boxcars. Financial Editor  David Nahass, who (pardon the cliché) is rather adept at thinking outside…

CSX President and CEO Joe Hinrichs got the wheels turning in late August when his railroad took labor negotiations out of national handling through the National Carriers Conference Committee (NCCC)…

The San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) Copper Line East County Connector, which replaces San Diego Trolley Green and Orange Line service north of El Cajon Transit Center, entered revenue…

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio Judge Benita Pearson has given final approval to the $600 million class-action settlement that Norfolk Southern offered to everyone who lived…

In early 2020, the South Florida Regional Transportation Authority (SFRTA) needed to upgrade the highway/rail grade crossing warning systems on its Tri-Rail rail corridor as part of an OSSI (On-Site…

When I started in this business in 1992, Bob Matthews ran the Railway Progress Institute (which years later merged with the Railway Supply Association into today’s Railway Supply Institute). Bob…

The RailPulse™ coalition—GATX, Watco, Genesee & Wyoming, TrinityRail, Norfolk Southern, The Greenbrier Companies, Union Pacific, CPKC, CSX, Bunge and Railroad Development Corp.—has added ZTR, with its Pivot railcar monitoring and sensor technology,…

New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Construction and Development (C&D) has awarded Naik-STV Engineering Joint Venture (Naik-STV), consisting of Naik Consulting Group PC and STV, a Program Management Consultant contract…

Jay Leno is probably better-known for his Jay Leno’s Garage series and collection of 81 automobiles and 160 motorcycles, among which are several early 20th century Stanley Steamers, than for…

The Indiana Rail Road (INRD) named Joe Gioe President and CEO in mid-August 2024. A career railroader with 20 years of industry experience, he has held leadership positions at two…

In 2021, the U.S. Congress directed the Secretary of Transportation to enter into an agreement with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine – Transportation Research Board (TRB) “to…

GoRail, the national non-profit grassroots organization “that unites rail stakeholders with community leaders and the public in support of rail solutions to tomorrow’s transportation challenges,”* has launched Rail Champions, described…

INFORM GmbH has deployed its Syncrotess Optimization Plus platform at Norfolk Southern’s Austell Intermodal Terminal in Atlanta, Ga., “enabling the terminal to have complete transparency of stacking operations, as well…

The New York Transit Museum is celebrating the 120th anniversary of the MTA New York City Transit subway system with a new exhibit, “The Subway Is…,” opening on Sept. 26 at…

Less than a week after a still-unknown person or persons at Norfolk Southern contacted CNBC and other media outlets alleging that President and CEO Alan H. Shaw was engaging in…

The Iowa Interstate Railroad (IAIS) recently celebrated its 40th anniversary. The 580-mile Class II, owned by Railroad Development Corp. (RDC), was established in 1984 on former Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific…

CN on Sept. 11 announced that its operations have recovered following “several months of labor uncertainty” as well as a complete shutdown of its Canadian network, and that it is…

New Jersey Transit President and CEO and Northeast Corridor (NEC) Commission Co-Chair Kevin Corbett and Railway Age Editor-in-Chief William C. Vantuono discuss key issues involved with the 453-mile Washington D.C.-New…

Five trade associations representing shippers of TIH (Toxic Inhalation Hazard) materials have written BNSF and the Surface Transportation Board (STB) about “grave concerns” they have with recent changes to BNSF’s…