The North Carolina Railroad Company (NCRR) awarded $1 million to Harnett County and Greensboro to prepare rail-served industrial sites recently. Part of NCRR’s Build Ready Sites grant program, t...
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OmniTRAX, a rail management company, recently deployed a next-generation asset monitoring system on its Panhandle Northern Railroad (PNR). Athena Industrial Services, an industrial safety company,...
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Amtrak announced it has created a new Board-level System Expansion Committee to manage its growing passenger rail service. The committee comes on the heels of the agency’s announcement of expand...
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Norfolk Southern announced recently it has completed a package of new infrastructure investments across Alabama designed to increase freight capacity, improve network fluidity and strengthen the state...
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As part of a fleet modernization strategy, Georgia-based Norfolk Southern Corp. and Wabtec Corp., a Pennsylvania freight and transit rail equipment company, have partnered to modernize 33 of the railr...
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Maryland-based Rohde & Schwarz USA recently held a grand-opening ceremony for its $40 million, 87,000-square-foot manufacturing plant in Frederick, Md. The facility will build digital Voice over I...
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Amtrak announced it would implement a temporary service outage in October to replace aging track components and improve reliability along the Northeast Corridor. Calling it a “Pause for Progress...
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CMC Railroad, LLC, the railroad partner of the Gulf Inland Logistics Park in Houston, said it had closed on an $87.9 million credit facility to help with the expansion of its operations there. The...
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Amtrak reopened East River Tunnel (ERT) Line 2 this week, marketing the end of the first major phase of the $1.6 billion ERT Rehabilitation Project that is scheduled to finish by the end of 2027. T...
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The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration announced it has awarded Amtrak nearly $3 billion in grants to advance seven projects to improve service. The grants, part...
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In an effort to continue its growth and momentum into the next 50 years, Amtrak’s Board of Directors has advanced a preliminary framework to modernize and transform the organization’s corporate st...
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U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy recently unveiled renderings for a more than $20 billion modernization of Washington Dulles International Airport. The U.S. Department of Transportation, t...
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Amtrak recently highlighted progress it has made toward making rail travel more accessible and inclusive across its national network. The reflection corresponds with the 36th anniversary of the Americ...
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Amtrak and the Schuylkill River Passenger Rail Authority (SRPRA) recently signed a document formalizing their relationship as they restore passenger rail to Reading, Pottstown and Phoenixville, Pa., a...
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OmniTrax announced it has debuted a new rail safety technology on its new affiliate– Central Texas and Colorado River Railway. The track monitoring software will get its first use in Texas. The ...
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The Gateway Development Commission (GDC) Board of Commissioners approved a change order to the Hudson River Ground Stabilization (HRGS) Project contract. The change would remove approximately 500 ...
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Florida-based freight rail company CSX opened its Hazardous Materials Training Institute on June 30 at the Florida State College at Jacksonville (FSCJ) Fire Academy of the South. The institute advance...
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Amtrak, along with its state and federal partners, recently announced it has launched a study that will develop strategies to preserve and increase the frequency, speed, reliability and resiliency of ...
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Union Pacific Corporation and Norfolk Southern Corporation announced they have submitted the first portion of their responses to the Surface Transportation Board’s request for additional information...
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BNSF Railway recently broke ground on the 126-acre Camp Howze Rail Park in Gainesville, Texas. The facility is part of BNSF Railway’s Site Certification program that ensures a site is ready for rapi...
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