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Metro-North rebuilding upstate bridge
Written by: Stuart Chirls, Senior Editor Metropolitan Transit Authority Metro-North Railroad is rebuilding the Prospect Hill Road Bridge in Southeast, N.Y. through a $9.5 million investment made...
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Greenbrier ups stake in LatAm car builder
Written by: Stuart Chirls, Senior EditorThe Greenbrier Companies announced it completed its investment in Brazil-based Amsted-Maxion Equipamentos E Serviços Ferroviários S.A. The transaction, which was...
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MBTA, Keolis add Boston-Cape Cod train for 5th summer
Written by: Stuart Chirls, Senior EditorThe Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and Keolis Commuter Services announced that the seasonal CapeFLYER weekend train service between Boston and...
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CP rolls out 60-ft. intermodal box
Written by: Stuart Chirls, Senior EditorCanadian Pacific announced the deployment of what it said is the first 60-foot intermodal container. The container, developed by retailer Canadian Tire in...
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MTA awards Sunnyside yard project pact
Written by: Maggie Lancaster, Associate Editor, RT&S New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority awarded Tutor Perini a $291.5-million contract for the Mid-Day Storage Yard portion of the East...
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Louisville & Indiana Railroad wins ASLRRA award for hiring veterans
Written by: Stuart Chirls, Senior EditorThe Louisville & Indiana Railroad was named one of four winners of the Timmons Award for an outstanding effort hiring and retaining military veterans. “We...
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Software tycoon plans belt line around Chicago
Written by: Stuart Chirls, Senior EditorAn investment group is seeking federal permission to construct a privately-owned, all-new railroad that would bypass the congestion of Chicago. Great Lakes Basin...
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Toyota honors Union Pacific service
Written by: Stuart Chirls, Senior EditorUnion Pacific earned the 2016 Toyota Logistics Excellence Award in Customer Service for the ninth consecutive year and, for the first time, the Kaizen Excellence...
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Flooding hits UP, Amtrak in Missouri
Written by: Stuart Chirls, Senior EditorRecent heavy rains and flooding in Missouri is tying up rail access for Union Pacific and Amtrak. Union Pacific in a service announcement detailed the effects of...
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TWU appoints Samuelsen Intl. President
Written by: Stuart Chirls, Senior EditorThe Transport Workers Union appointed John Samuelsen International President. Samuelsen succeeds Harry Lombardo, who unexpectedly announced his immediate...
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Canada: A new mine, a new rail connection
Written by: William C. Vantuono, Editor-in-ChiefCanadian Pacific and K+S Potash Canada (KSPC) on May 2, officially opened the Bethune (Legacy) Project potash mine site, the first of its kind built in...
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For Hamilton LRT, an extension
Written by: John Thompson, Contributing EditorHamilton, Ontario’s approved LRT line will be extended an additional 1.9 miles to its original eastern terminal, Eastgate Square, an east Hamilton shopping...
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FRA extends Part 243 implementation deadline by full year
Written by: Mischa Wanek-Libman, Engineering Editor The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has extended the implementation dates of Part 243 Minimum Training Standards by one year according to a...
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Railcar production improvement: Wait for 2019
Written by: William C. Vantuono, Editor-in-ChiefFreight car deliveries will remain relatively flat over the next two years at 42,500 units annually but will enter an up-cycle, according to the most...
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PS Technology, NS partnering on personnel
Written by: William C. Vantuono, Editor-in-ChiefA new train crew management and payroll system under development by PS Technology and Norfolk Southern is expected to “boost operating efficiency, lower...
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TRAC Intermodal Metro Pool reaches 30% “like new”
Written by: William C. Vantuono, Editor-in-ChiefTRAC Intermodal’s Metro Pool chassis fleet, which serves the Port of NY/NJ complex, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New England and western New York State...
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APTA, TRB offer safety workshop
Written by: William C. Vantuono, Editor-in-ChiefThe American Public Transportation Association (APTA) and Transportation Research Board (TRB) Rail Operational Safety Committee AR070 are sponsoring a...
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Grain, coal lead freight traffic gains
Written by: William C. Vantuono, Editor-in-ChiefIs the rail freight traffic slump over? It would appear so, as total combined U.S. traffic for the first 17 weeks of 2017 of nearly nine million carloads...
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Written by: Frank N. Wilner, Contributing Editor“Fire burn and caldron bubble … something wicked this way comes”—and it’s neither Shakespeare’s Macbeth nor his lady. Enter, stage right, Presidential...
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Swedish ties, American fasteners
Written by: William C. Vantuono, Editor-in-ChiefPandrol’s FASTCLIP FE fastening system has been chosen as the preferred fastening for a Trafikverket (TRV, Swedish Transport Administration) 20-year...
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