The Investors’ Guide to Railroad Freight Cars and Locomotives was created in response to requests submitted to RailSolutions, Inc. for industry specific data related to the equipment employed by North American freight
L.B. Foster Co. and Portec Rail Products, Inc. say they are reviewing their options following a judge’s action Wednesday enjoining the completion of L.B. Foster’s tender offer to acquire all of Portec’s
BNSF Wednesday “introduced” its new Memphis Intermodal Facility in a grand opening ceremony, following a $200 million expansion and rebuilding effort. The facility now will double BNSF’s lift capacity in the Memphis
The Surface Transportation Board said Wednesday that it had directed Canadian National “to come before the board and explain the significant differences between information on street-crossing blockages in the Chicago area that the railroad
The Railway Tie Association has unveiled a series of educational videos on tie grading, with nine modules containing instructional highlights of the RTA’s most successful training event, its annual Tie Grading Seminar.
The H Street-Benning Road streetcar line in Washington, D.C., now under construction, could be extended to provide a link to Union Station, under a plan being advanced by the District Department of
Bombardier Transportation has won an order valued at $54 million from Poland’s Koleje Mazowieckie for 11 TRAXX electric locomotives. Delivery is scheduled for summer 2011. It’s the first purchase of electric TRAXX
Cary, N.C.-based Railinc Tuesday released a major update to the RailSight™ CLM (Car Location Message) engine, which delivers real-time track and trace data for freight rail. The company says RailSight now gives
Siemens Mobility said Tuesday it has established a new website “dedicated to its high-speed rail business in the U.S.” The new site is www.usa.siemens.com/highspeedrail. Sacramento, Calif.-based Siemens Mobility is part of Siemens AG.
BNSF Railway Tuesday said it has honored 93 shippers with BNSF’s Annual Product Stewardship Award for the safe transportation of hazardous materials by rail during 2009. The 93 companies have successfully implemented
SYSTRA Engineering, Inc., and AECOM Technology Corp. on Monday announced that MTA Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) and MTA Metro-North Railroad (MNR) chose their joint-venture effort to provide support services for the
Bombardier Transportation said Monday its EBI Cab 2000 automatic train protection (ATP) system has been approved for commercial operation on Spain’s high speed AVE S-130 trains. It is the first such approval
Deutsche Bahn (DB) reportedly is close to completing a takeover bid of British transport group Arriva for £1.6 billion ($2.4 billion), and may complete the move as early as this week. DB
The Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor says it has extended its Request for Proposals deadline to April 26, 2010 (end of business day), from the original deadline of April 21. The complete Request
At the depth of the recession, railroads had miles of freight cars and locomotives in storage and thousands of train crew members on furlough. With recovery now well on the way, that
Chicago Transit Authority Friday introduced prototypes of the agency’s new 5000-series rail cars, produced by Bombardier Transportation, and said it will begin testing the cars in revenue next week. The 10 cars
Paul Clark, former vice president, Communications & Public Affairs, for CanadianPacific, passed away April 12. At CP, Paul was the creative force behind theHoliday Train, which has raised close to $5 million
With the threat of state legislative interference looming in the background, the University of Minnesota and the Metropolitan Council late Thursday reached at least a partial accord on the $957 million Central
Raymond James Financial Services analyst Steven Hansen told clients in a note Thursday that railroad recovery in Canada has reached a state of “reasonable health and vigor,” and he accordingly upgraded earnings estimates for both
Norfolk Southern has joined a growing number of corporations that have added highly popular “social media” websites—Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr—to how it communicates, distributing information, video, and photos to online audiences.
