Now Online: Railway Age March 2022 Digital Edition
Written by Marybeth Luczak, Executive Editor
The March 2022 issue of Railway Age is available digitally.
What must North America’s railroads do to grow and gain market share from competing freight transportation modes?
To answer that critical question, these railroad CEOs—the industry’s thought leaders—have crafted exclusive, insightful essays for Railway Age:
• Katie Farmer, BNSF
• Keith Creel, Canadian Pacific
• JJ Ruest, CN
• Jim Foote, CSX
• Pat Ottensmeyer, Kansas City Southern
• Alan Shaw, Norfolk Southern
• Lance Fritz, Union Pacific
• Peter Gilbertson, Anacostia Rail Holdings
• Dan Smith, Watco
• Ian Jefferies, Association of American Railroads
• Chuck Baker, American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association
Also in the March issue, you’ll find reports on:
• Rail Cybersecurity. Let’s face it: We’re vulnerable. Editor-in-Chief William C. Vantuono shares what he learned from experts at Shift5, MidRail LLC, New Jersey Transit, Ribbon Communications and the Telecommunications Industry Association.
• High-Performance Rail. It’s moving forward—at restricted speed. “U.S. high-speed rail is a mixed bag,” writes Contributing Editor David Peter Alan, “with some projects more likely to succeed than others.”
• Ultrasonic Steel Testing. In the third edition of “Timeout for Tech with Gary T. Fry, Ph.D., P.E.,” Fry addresses seeing invisible defects using inaudible sounds.
• Wheel Defect Detection Using EMATs. Transportation Technology Center, Inc. has been conducting tests to evaluate the capability of electromagnetic acoustic transducer (EMAT) nondestructive evaluation (NDE) technology to detect internal defects in railroad wheels. Principal Investigator II Anish Poudel explains.
In addition, Contributing Editor Frank N. Wilner “talks labor.” Rail management and labor have been negotiating contract amendments since January 2020.
And Financial Editor David Nahass discusses the Railroad Commission of Texas (RCT) debacle. What it shows, he says, “is that the power and success of regulation is always dependent on the people, ideas and agenda of the regulator. What is necessary in North American rail is not more regulation. What is needed for railroads and consumers of rail service (and other core services for states like Texas) is better regulation and better regulators.”
