Switching & Terminal

Railinc®’sTransmetriQ brand has launched its Rate & Route tool, designed to improve performance and reduce expense for rail carload shippers. “Rail shippers often spend hours or days scouring industry websites,…

FROM THE EDITOR, RAILWAY AGE NOVEMBER 2024 ISSUE: This month, we once again dive head-first into boxcars. See the “Point/Counterpoint” piece where we continue to facilitate the debate. My thanks…

Railway Age is celebrating eight years of recognizing women who not only excel at leadership but also serve the community and drive industry change, paving the way for the next…

P&G Manufacturing Company has contracted with OmniTRAX (a Broe Group affiliate) to provide dedicated in-plant switching services at P&G’s Lima, Ohio laundry care factory. The facility becomes OmniTRAX’s third rail-served…

Our Market-Based Approach is Working, by Bill Sheehan, Vice President, Fleet, TTX Company I read with interest David Nahass’ October 2024 Railroad Financial Desk Book article regarding boxcars. It reports…

WATCHING WASHINGTON, RAILWAY AGE NOVEMBER 2024 ISSUE: In response to an early October economy-jolting dock workers’ strike—now suspended until mid-January—Rep. Michelle Steel (R-Calif.) introduced a “Safeguarding Our Supply Chain Act”…

Railway Age is celebrating eight years of recognizing women who not only excel at leadership but also serve the community and drive industry change, paving the way for the next…

Railway Age’s eighth annual Women in Rail program recognizes women who excel at leadership, serving the community and driving industry change. These 25 trailblazers—plus seven earning Honorable Mention—work in the…

U.S. rail traffic for the week ending Oct. 26, 2024 (Week 43) came in at 519,415 carloads and intermodal units, up 4.2% from the same week last year, based on…

Pacific Harbor Line (PHL), together with the California Air Resources Board (CARB), has received partial funding for five new Progress Rail battery-electric locomotives and two battery chargers through the Federal…

The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) on Oct. 29 reported that 122 freight and passenger rail improvement projects—including 81 at short lines—across 41 states will share more than $2.4 billion in…

The National Railroad Hall of Fame has received a $200,000 capital campaign gift from Henry I. Posner, III for the organization’s visitor attraction in Galesburg. Posner, Chairman of Railroad Development…

The Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans (Port NOLA) taps Beth Ann Branch as President and CEO of Port NOLA and CEO of the New Orleans Public…

Why aren’t the FRA, AAR and APTA collaborating on, instead of pursuing separate, passenger and freight standards? On Sept. 16, 2024, the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) PRESS (Passenger Rail…

Ports of Indiana and the Indiana State Department of Agriculture sign a Memorandum of Understanding to boost agriculture trade and container shipping. Also, Port of Los Angeles handles a record…

Transport Canada on Oct. 18 reported that it will invest up to C$38 million in seven port projects in Quebec through the National Trade Corridors Fund. The Fund, a competitive,…

Utah’s Seven County Infrastructure Coalition in March petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to review an appeals court’s decision that “derailed” the Uinta Basin Railway project, according to Colorado Newsline. On June 24, SCOTUS decided to review…

New Orleans Public Belt Railroad (NOPB) on Oct. 17 reported that Heniff Transportation Systems LLC will manage rail transloading services at the newly opened New Orleans Transloading Industrial Park. The Park…

The Surface Transportation Board (STB) on Oct. 17 issued two separate decisions approving, with conditions, Canadian Pacific Kansas City’s (CPKC) request to acquire from Genesee & Wyoming Class III Meridian & Bigbee…

Total North American carload and intermodal traffic rose 2.4% through the first 41 weeks of 2024 compared with the prior-year period, the Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported Oct. 16.…