Obituary: James Seney, 71, Ohio rail advocate
James Seney, an Ohio political figure well-known for his passenger rail advocacy in the Buckeye State Ontario, according to his daughter Allison.
James Seney, an Ohio political figure well-known for his passenger rail advocacy in the Buckeye State Ontario, according to his daughter Allison.
ProTran Technology says it was awarded its first major contract from Brazil’s Belo Horizonte Metro for the “Protracker / PTC” track worker protection overlay system for advance warning of approaching trains.
L.B. Foster Co. on Monday noted the completion of the sale of its railway securement business to Holland, L.P.
The Port Authority of Allegheny County (PAT) said Monday it will eliminate 13 “little-used” Pittsburgh light rail transit stops to speed up travel times. The move will take place June 25.
Regional Rail, LLC says it has acquired a construction and demolition debris (C&D) rail-served transfer station in Conshohocken, Pa.
Bombardier Transportation announced Monday that it has signed its contract for 300 R179 subway cars with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) to be delivered to New York City Transit (NYCT). The order is valued at approximately $599 million.
Public transportation ridership surged in the first quarter of 2012, increasing 5.0% over the first quarter of last year, according to a report released Monday by the American Public Transportation Association (APTA), coinciding with APTA’s ongoing Rail Conference in Dallas.
CIT Group Monday announced that railcar lessor CIT Rail has ordered 3,500 railcars from multiple manufacturers with deliveries scheduled throughout 2012 and 2013.
AECOM says it has been named lead design subconsultant to a joint venture contracted to design, build, and finance a spur line and passenger station as part of Ontario’s Air Rail Link (ARL).
Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) early Monday morning heralded reaching 250 million customers since DART light rail transit service began almost 16 years ago on June 14, 1996.
Regan Smith, No. 78 running strong for Monster Mile Regan Smith, driver of the No. 78 Furniture Row Racing/CSX Play It Safe Chevrolet Impala, heads into Sunday’s FedEx 400 benefiting Autism Speaks
Big D, here I come! On June 2, some colleagues and I will be rumbling (literally) into Dallas to attend selected events in and around the 2012 Rail Transit Conference of the American Public Transportation Association (APTA).
Norfolk Southern, a railroad that has more than once been characterized as the world’s most successful, observes its 30th anniversary June 2 in a position of strength and growth, despite a weakened national economy.
For the second year in a row, Union Pacific was selected as the top performing railroad by leading U.S. agricultural shippers in the third annual Soy Transportation Coalition (STC) Railroad Report Card, the coalition announced Thursday.
Canadian Pacific operations throughout Canada resumed at roughly 7:00 a.m. Friday morning (Eastern Time), CP spokesman Ed Greenberg told Railway Age.
U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) on Thursday asked Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood to launch a “high-level and coordinated multimodal freight initiative at the U.S. Department of Transportation to improve the management of freight programs, investment, coordination, and planning.”
In a welcome departure from past weeks, U.S. freight carload traffic for the week ending May 26, 2012 notched an increase, up 1.3% measured against the comparable week in 2011, the Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported Thursday.
The third of four East Side Access tunnels was completed Tuesday, seven weeks ahead of schedule, when a 642-ton tunnel boring machine rolled to a halt underneath Sunnyside Yard in Queens, the New York MTA announced Thursday.
In Berlin Thursday, Bombardier Transportation unveiled a new application for both rail and road transit of what it described as its “game-changing” PRIMOVE system, applicable to rail and bus public transit.
The Toronto Transit Commission Wednesday said it is comfortable with letting Metrolinx take the lead in building additional light rail transit in Canada’s largest city, including the Eglinton Crosstown LRT.