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Topping the list of reasons to attend the much-anticipated 2025 Women in Rail Conference is kick-off speaker Annie Adams, Chief Human Resources Officer at Norfolk Southern (NS). Railway Age and…

MxV RAIL R&D, RAILWAY AGE JULY 2025 ISSUE: Under the Association of American Railroads (AAR) Strategic Research Initiatives Program, MxV Rail and its Damage Prevention & Loading Services (DP&LS) group conducted…

Explore a career in railroad technology Engineering Students, Researchers, and Faculty North America’s railroad industry always strives for the highest standards in safety, efficiency, reliability, and network resiliency – and…

The 30th Annual AAR Research Review, hosted by MxV Rail from April 29 to May 1, 2025, brought together more than 300 attendees from around the world, including Class I…

MxV Rail is expanding its laboratory capabilities for rail component testing. “With a suite of new machines and test capabilities available and more laboratory test services rolling out soon, MxV…

MxV RAIL R&D, RAILWAY AGE MAY 2025 ISSUE: The Wheel Impact Load Detector (WILD) is an established wayside detector technology used to identify out-of-round conditions, whether due to wheel polygonization…

MXV RAIL R&D, RAILWAY AGE, MARCH 2025 ISSUE: MxV Rail has been investigating the root cause(s) of asymmetrically hollow worn wheels and will present details of this investigation during the 30th…

MxV Rail R&D, Railway Age January 2025 Issue: Recently, the Association of American Railroads (AAR) Coupling Systems and Truck Castings Committee asked MxV Rail to evaluate how warp restraint systems…

In the past few years, the railway industry has been willing to at least consider technologies once thought to be unusual or unconventional—autonomous or semi-autonomous freight and passenger trains, and…

Rail Vision Ltd. joins MxV Rail’s Technology Roadmap Program. Also, Wabtec Corporation renews a locomotive services agreement in India.

Association of American Railroads (AAR) subsidiary MxV Rail has opened its new Heavy Duty Maintenance Facility (HDMF) at Pueblo Plex. Described as “a modern, fully equipped HDMF facility,” the HDMF…

MxV Rail R&D, Railway Age November 2024 Issue: Since 2021, MxV Rail has been collaborating with Innerspec Technologies, Inc. regarding development of a magnetostrictive Electromagnetic Acoustic Transducer (EMAT) sensor and…

RAILWAY AGE, OCTOBER 2024 ISSUE: There’s more than one way to secure rail to crossties, from traditional spikes to a wide variety of clips, to suit any application.  Gauge-holding capability,…

The Security and Emergency Response Training Center (SERTC), a division of MxV Rail, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Association of American Railroads (AAR), on Oct. 2 announced the complete…

Pueblo, Colo.-based MxV Rail has released a virtual tour of its new Curving Performance Track (CPT) and Suspension Resonance Track (SRT). Also, the Security and Emergency Response Training Center (SERTC)…

From coal to diesel to green?

MxV Rail in August held the annual University Days event at its Pueblo Plex test facility and the Pueblo Convention Center in Colorado. Free to university students and staff who…

MxV RAIL R&D, RAILWAY AGE SEPTEMBER 2024 ISSUE: MxV Rail’s rolling contact fatigue simulator (RCFS) is a full-scale test rig consisting of a railroad wheelset and two 56-inch-long rails attached…

The Security and Emergency Response Training Center (SERTC) at MxV Rail In Pueblo, Colo., announced July 23 that it recently broke ground on a new training area, expanding the flammable…

RAILWAY AGE JULY 2024 ISSUE: MxV Rail conducted an in-depth analysis of air hose separation (AHS) incidents using service interruption reports, locomotive event recorder downloads and infrastructure databases from a Class…