While Amtrak Police Officer Job Hernandez checks for another train, the motorized skateboarder in the foreground prepares to cross the tracks in back of the Metra train headed into Chicago Union Station on Sept. 24, 2019. Bob Johnston CHICAGO — Thousands of police department, railroad, and safety-oriented organization personnel throughout the country are participating in […]
John Wories, Amsted Rail president John Wories, Amsted Rail president, gestures during comments he gave in a panel discussion at the 2019 Railway Interchange conference in Minneapolis on Tuesday. H. Michael Yuhas MINNEAPOLIS — It was the final question in Tuesday’s hour-long panel discussion involving three CEOs at the Railway Supply Institute’s Educational and Technical […]
MOUNT STERLING, Ky. — The City of Mt. Sterling, Ky., is seeking sealed bids for the purchase of a former Chesapeake & Ohio freight and passenger station listed on the U.S. National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places. According to a Facebook post, the city is seeking to sell the former depot building, located […]
CMA CGM’s former APL containership President Eisenhower docks at the Port of Los Angeles last week alongside the CMA CGM Norma. Steamship lines will have to comply with a new low-sulfur fuel mandate beginning Jan. 1, 2020. Bill Stephens A low-sulfur marine fuel requirement for steamship lines may have wide-ranging implications for North American intermodal […]
NEW YORK — The resumption of weekday Express Acela service to Washington on Monday saw southbound train 2401 leave New York’s Pennsylvania Station at 6:35 a.m. on a two hour and thirty-five minute schedule: it heralded another effort to provide non-stop service, which had been operated sporadically over the last 50 years, by both Penn […]
Claude Mongeau, former CN CEO Norfolk Southern NORFOLK, Va. — It should come as no surprise that Norfolk Southern has added former Canadian National CEO Claude Mongeau to its board of directors as it shifts to a Precision Scheduled Railroading operating model. NS CEO Jim Squires has said his railroad is taking a balanced approach […]
Trinity Rail’s new Trinflow hopper on display at Railway Interchange in Minneapolis this week. TRAINS: Brian Schmidt MINNEAPOLIS — Two new covered hopper cars from rival manufacturers both displayed at Railway Interchange 2019 in Minneapolis promise to revolutionize grain transportation in North America. Both hoppers use new adjustable gates that enable the cars to carry […]
An artist’s rendering of Wabtec’s battery-electric locomotive. Wabtec Corp. MINNEAPOLIS — How can you quickly create a U.S. fleet of hybrid heavy-haul locomotives? The answer, it Wabtec officials seem to say, is by creating an all-electric unit that can be mixed into a consist with existing conventional diesel-electric power. That’s the idea behind the battery-electric […]
Claude Mongeau NS NORFOLK, Va. – Claude Mongeau has been elected a director of Norfolk Southern Corp., effective Sept. 23, Chairman, President and CEO James A. Squires announced today. Mongeau, 57, is former president and chief executive officer of Canadian National Railway Company, holding those positions from 2010 to 2016. He has been appointed to […]
TRAINS: Brian Schmidt MINNEAPOLIS — FreightCar America is displaying the industry’s first forged steel coupler knuckle at the Railway Interchange 2019 trade show in Minneapolis this week. The coupler is expected to offer three times the life of a traditional cast coupler. “The idea came about as we were looking for ways to grow our […]
Passengers board a San Luis & Rio Grande train at Alamosa, Colo., in June 2015. Trains: Brian Schmidt CHICAGO — Iowa Pacific Holdings’ financial woes continue. A week after its railroads in Colorado and Oregon were placed into receivership, the receiver, Novo Advisors, has filed a motion to place six other Iowa Pacific companies into […]
CHICAGO – Iowa Pacific Holdings appears to be holding a fire sale of equipment following a series of recent financial troubles. A batch of new listings on rail equipment brokerage site Ozark Mountain Railcar appeared over the weekend offering a minimum of 33 pieces of Iowa Pacific equipment for sale, including locomotives and rolling stock […]
