Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) and Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) have introduced House and Senate versions of the Safe Highways and Infrastructure Preservation Act, which would freeze national truck size and weight limits on the interstate highway system. Rep. Frank Wolf (R-V.A.) is the lead co-sponsor of H.R. 1574.
Canadian National customers continue to reap benefits from the railroad’s system-wide productivity push. Scheduled potash rains provide the latest evidence.
The City of Calgary has selected Telvent to provide a contactless smart card based fare collection system for Calgary Transit’s light rail and bus system, which serves more than 94 million passengers
Fatalities caused by grade crossing collisions and trespassing are making U.S. railroads look far less safe than they are.
The “explosion of orders in this year’s first quarter” has led Economic Planning Associates to increase its projection of freight car deliveries this year from 22,000 to a “conservative” 37,000. EPA expects
Amtrak runs North America’s only existing high speed rail corridor between Boston and Washington, D.C. Maintaining the more than 450 miles along the Northeast Corridor presents its share of challenges in the form of time coordination, machine productivity, and long-lasting, quality maintenance.
National Railway Equipment Company’s new, six-axle 2GS-37C DE N-ViroMotive utilizes existing SD40-2 main frames, rebuilt trucks with D87B traction motors (70:17 gear ratio), and twin gensets equipped with 1,850-hp Cummins QSK50 ULEL certified diesel engines.
Pricing concessions vs. pricing freedom: A battle is won, but the threat lingers.
TTCI seeks a remedy for uneven flange profiles.
Senior Consulting Editor Luther Miller aptly describes a sometimes-adversarial relationship that is at least partially fueled by the success of our freight railroads, which are without a doubt the best in the world. The testy relationship involves the railroads and a small but vocal group of customers that seek to re-regulate them.
Recently I fielded a call from the president of a regional railroad who is an old friend. He had some boxcars on his railroad that he was leasing from one of the major operating lessors. The cars were up for renewal and when he received the lessor’s rental quote, he went into sticker shock. He was calling me to get my view on the rents he was quoted to see if the market rates had, indeed, risen to the heights he was quoted.
Railroads have made powerful strides in efficiency with the diesel-electric, and more are on the way. Here’s what the experts see. Of all the technological advances that have occurred in the railroad industry in the past half-century or so, maintenance-of-way mechanization is the one most closely associated with major productivity gains.
Prudent and persistent capital investment has positioned Union Pacific for a robust recovery. For a railroad the size of Union Pacific, planning and spending multibillion-dollar capital budgets is an exercise in prudence, precision, and vision.
Although the Railroad Safety Improvement Act of 2008 was written primarily for the Class I’s, many of the short line and regional railroads that touch roughly one out of every five carloads the Class I’s handle will have to deal with this mostly unfunded mandate.
Vancouver’s TransLink incentive to expand, and market, rail and transit options. The momentum is likely to continue. TransLink, part of British Columbia Rapid Transit Co., by almost all accounts performed admirably during the 2010 Winter Olympics, held Feb. 12-28 in Vancouver, British Columbia,
Norfolk Southern CEO Wick Moorman and Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam joined state and local dignitaries and business and community leaders Friday at the groundbreaking for the new Memphis Regional Intermodal Facility in
The feast-or-famine pattern of freight car orders has made a sharp turn inthe builders’ favor. The American Railway Car Institute released figuresThursday showing that the manufacturers’ backlog of cars on order andundelivered
Kinkisharyo International, LLC put its electro-hybrid ameriTRAM streetcar on display in Dallas Friday, continuing its national promotion of the streetcar designed for U.S. urban needs in a city already pursuing several streetcar
Invensys Rail says the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) of Carnegie Mellon University has appraised Invensys Rail at a Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Level 2 for work the company is performing for
The United Transportation Union Friday said a tentative new five-year national rail agreement covering wages, benefits and working conditions has been reached between the UTU and the National Carriers’ Conference Committee (NCCC).
