OmniTRAX, one of the country’s fastest growing privately held rail management companies, announced it has entered into a joint venture for the acquisition of Santa Maria Valley Railroad. The acq...
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Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) and Patriot Rail Co., a short line and regional rail service provider, plan to build a multicommodity transload facility on CPKC's network in Denton, Texas. The...
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The Columbia Basin Railroad (CBRW) announced it has donated Segment 3 of its rail line to the Port of Moses Lake as part of the development for the Northern Columbia Basin Railroad Project. The do...
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Metra, a rail system serving the six-county Chicago area, is seeking public feedback on what riders think about the potential renaming of lines. Union Pacific Railroad is transitioning the Union Pa...
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Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy recently signed into law legislation that gives the Alaska Railroad Corp. (ARRC) the ability to issue up to $135 million in revenue bonds. Bonds will be used to fund the c...
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JetBlue announced the remodel of Terminal 5 at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Thursday along with Fraport USA, Terminal 5 manager, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The t...
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California-based Harbinger, a medium-duty electric vehicle (EV) company, recently launched the IRA Risk-Free Guarantee program. "We created this program to eliminate the financial uncertainty for ...
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Canadian National Railway Company (CN) and Iowa Northern Railway Company announced they had officially joined their operations earlier this month. The announcement means the two railroads can begi...
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NJ TRANSIT recently signed a more than $25 million contract with French-based Alstom, a transportation equipment manufacturing company, to overhaul the agency’s 209 Multilevel II vehicles. Multi...
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The Canadian Pacific Kansas City railroad is making progress toward its low-carbon emission transition, a new report said. The report, CPKC’s 2025 Climate Mileposts, outlined the steps it has ta...
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The North Carolina Railroad Company (NCRR), a Raleigh-based rail transportation company, recently announced it will invest $400,000 though its economic development initiative NCRR Invests to expand Pe...
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A new station, nearly 20 years in the making, will make the goal of connecting Mobile, Ala., and New Orleans, La., closer to a reality in Summer 2025. Officials said the construction of a new Amtr...
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Amtrak and its industry partners convened an industry roundtable to discuss the hundreds of major infrastructure rebuilding projects across the country. Meeting with representatives of the constru...
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Colorado-based OmniTRAX, one of North America’s largest privately held rail and real estate companies, recently named David Garin as board of directors chairman. Garin has worked for Class I railroa...
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The New Terminal One at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) is seeking two providers each for Above the Wing Ground Handling Services and Below the Wing Ground Handling Services. Wing Groun...
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Ohio-based Cathcart Rail, a freight rail services and transportation company, became Oregon-based Portland & Western Railroad’s (PNWR) running repair agent for car inspection and mechanical services...
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London-based investor Ancala announced the formation of a U.S.-based short line rail specialist Phoenix Rail with its acquisition of Lehigh Valley Rail Management (LVRM) in Pennsylvania. The compan...
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Tokyo-based Sumitomo Corp.’s subsidiary Sumitomo Corporation of Americas recently announced a strategic investment in St. Louis-based Evertrak, a manufacturer of railroad ties primarily made from re...
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Customers of Norfolk Southern Corporation advanced nearly 150 industrial development project totaling $4.3 billion for new or expanded facilities in 2024, the company said Wednesday. Of the 149 pr...
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(Corrects first paragraph to reflect the Federal Railroad Administration released the study and not Amtrak.) The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) recently released a study that evaluated the r...
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