CSX President and CEO Joe Hinrichs, Railway Age’s 2025 Railroader of the Year, appeared on CNBC’s “Mad Money” on Aug. 27. He and host Jim Cramer talked about the rail…

POTUS 47 on Aug. 27 fired Surface Transportation Board member Robert Primus, The Wall Street Journal reported Aug. 28, noting that the STB is “the railroad regulator weighing the proposed megamerger between Union Pacific and Norfolk…

Following weeks of feverish analysis and speculation, most of it second- and third-guessing, after Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern formally announced their betrothal, Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) has declared…

Michigan-based Class II Lake State Railway Company (LSRC), Railway Age’s 2021 Regional of the Year and 2018 Short Line of the Year, has rolled out a locomotive in a heritage…

Same vecchie stronzate stanche, different railroad. This time, it’s CSX. In my humble opinion, it’s non funzionerà, because we’ve seen these tactics before, at Norfolk Southern: Circle the target, buy…

This year, Railway Age and RT&S are pleased to venture to Pittsburgh on Oct. 1-2 for the much-anticipated 2025 Light Rail Conference, featuring a packed lineup of LRT professionals who…

The first five of Amtrak’s long-awaited, Alstom-built higher-speed trainset, the “NextGen Acela” (but also called “Acela II,” “America’s high-speed train,” and “Avelia Liberty” by the builder), are set to debut…

The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) has proposed updated guidelines to remove what it claims is the “overly complex social cost of carbon calculation” as part of the rating criteria for…

R. J. Corman Railroad Group, LLC Executive Vice President Commercial Affairs Justin Broyles was named President and CEO after serving in an interim capacity since replacing Ed Quinn, who resigned…

“Competition Will Put Passenger Rail on the Right Track,” a new Discovery Institute report, “outlines a bold vision for restoring American passenger rail through competition, private sector innovation and targeted…

Intermodal chassis equipment provider and pool manager TRAC Intermodal has launched TRAC GeoFleet, described as “a smart chassis solution that provides customers with guaranteed chassis availability, usage-based billing through geofencing…

Rail industry icon Thomas F. Prendergast, CEO of Gateway Development Commission, leads off  Next-Gen Rail Systems, the communications, signaling and advanced technology conference presented by Railway Age, and formerly known as…

ProTecht, described as “the rail industry’s first mobile, autonomous tank car cleaning system,” is now available across the U.S. and Canada through Marmon Rail brands UTLX in the United States and Procor…

This year, Railway Age and RT&S are pleased to venture to Pittsburgh on Oct. 1-2 for the much-anticipated 2025 Light Rail Conference, featuring a packed lineup of LRT professionals who are significantly influencing today’s…

Rail TempEst™, a new software application from KB Signaling Inc. (KBS), provides data that goes “beyond forecasts and assumptions toward real-time, high-resolution rail temperature and measurements of track forces caused…

This podcast, taken from Railway Age’s 2025 Rail Insights Conference, features Kate Suprenuk, President of Leasing and Manufacturing, Union Tank Car Company & Procor | Marmon, in conversation with David…

Richmond Pacific Railroad Corp. (RPRC), a division of Levin Richmond Terminal Corp., has recommissioned one of its legacy EMD switcher locomotives as a repowered, EPA Tier 4-compliant unit. Western Rail,…

Beginning Sept. 3, Union Pacific is expanding its Z train network with a new domestic intermodal service connecting its Inland Empire Intermodal Terminal (IEIT) in Southern California directly with its Global 2 Intermodal…

The City of Edmonton has taken delivery of the first Hyundai Rotem low-floor light rail vehicle (LRV) for the ETS (Edmonton Transit Services) Valley Line West LRT, “marking a major…

Among the list of reasons to attend the much-anticipated 2025 Light Rail Conference is “Reconfiguring Riverside Yard for Type 10 ‘Supercars’ on the MBTA Green Line” by Rachel J. Burckardt, P.E., Senior…