2012 Railroader of the Year: The Video
Kansas City Southern President and Chief Executive Officer David L. Starling, Railway Age’s 2012 Railroader of the Year, talks about his career path, his international experience, and KCS’s recent achievements and growth projections in a video interview with Editor-in-Chief William C. Vantuono.
High Green
All signs point to another year of slow but solid traffic growth, strong pricing power, and continued investment in capacity. Global gloom and a still-fragile domestic economy caused many American businesses to raise caution flags as they sized up prospects for the New Year.
2012 Railroad Financial Desk Book: Stability
Welcome to this year’s edition of the Railroad Financial Desk Book. Each year we try our best to take a look back and a look forward to see if we can discern what the tea leaves have in store for the rail equipment and leasing industries.
Fast-in, fast-out
The classification yard is arguably the most complex operation on a railroad. Despite the growth in unit trains, breaking up and reconfiguring trains—blocking and tackling—remains one of the basics of railroading. Over the years, a lot of research and effort have gone into improving yard productivity and efficiency.
Who will build this train?
The stakes are big in the race to build a new generation of American high speed trains. "If we can get one high speed system up and running, others will follow."
2012 Railroader of the Year: The Video
High Green
2012 Railroad Financial Desk Book: Stability
Fast-in, fast-out
Who will build this train?
Breaking News
February 03, 2012
The nation's freight railroads say they have reached a tentative agreement with the last of 13 labor unions, the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees.
The National Carriers’ Conference Committee, representing 30 railroads, cautioned the pact has to be ratified...February 03, 2012
Markup by the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Thursday of its version of surface transportation reauthorization legislation, H.R. 7, included a 33-to-22 vote to remove bigger truck language from the bill. The Committee also inserted language seeking a comprehensive study...February 03, 2012
Progress Rail has announced it is closing its London, Ontario, locomotive operation, where 450 workers have been locked out since New Year’s Day.
In a statement released on Canada News Wire, Progress Rail said it regretted the move, but “[t]he cost...February 02, 2012
A new report by the Federal Railroad Administration's Office of Safety Analysis shows that in the first 11 months of 2011, U. S. railroad accidents and incidents declined 5.7% from the same period in 2010 to 10,037. Rail fatalities, as...February 02, 2012
U.S. freight carload traffic for the week ending Jan. 28, 2012 was down 2.8% compared with the fourth week of 2011, the Association of American Railroads said Thursday. By contrast, U.S. intermodal volume for the week rose 5.5% compared with...
Blogs and More
February 03, 2012
Full disclosure and credibility claim right upfront: I ride the bus. More than once a year. And more than one O/D pair. That’s just to make it clear that the Managing Editor of Railway Age isn’t completely blinded by, or supportive of only, the rail...February 01, 2012
Here we go again.
A “friendly” GOP House committee chairman has introduced legislation that would reauthorize the expired surface transportation program. Without benefit of any hearings, the bill introduced by Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.) would continue highway and bridge spending at levels near those of the...January 30, 2012
So maybe you thought, with all the hostility from some quarters toward all government spending (it's evil, you know), together with claims that rail transit is a big waste, and other nonsense—plus efforts by some conservative lawmakers to defund the federal New Rail Starts program...January 18, 2012
Many fine railroad people have worked hard to earn the prestige that an E. H. Harriman Safety Award carries. Norfolk Southern is justly proud of its own record number, 22 Category A Gold Harrimans in a row. This May 16, NS will have the opportunity...January 17, 2012
I’m worried about short lines that don’t know what it really costs them to serve a given customer. And the sorry fact of the matter is the tools are there to know precisely whether a specific customer—or the entire short line, for that matter—is making...
