The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act directs the U.S. GAO (General Accountability Office) to examine commuter rail PTC O&M (operations and maintenance) costs. GAO surveyed all 29 commuter rail agencies required to
It took Conrail maintenance-of-way forces less than three days to repair heavy damage to its Lehigh Line, a busy main line used by New Jersey Transit Raritan Valley Line (RVL) passenger trains and CSX and Norfolk Southern freights, following the derailment of a 141-car CSX mixed freight late on the afternoon of Dec. 8.
The U.S. General Accountability Office (GAO) has released a study, “Freight Rail Pricing,” which suggests that rail shippers are amenable to longer-term contracts but wary of pricing.
