Amtrak’s new Airo trainsets debuted in the Pacific Northwest recently. The railway said two cutting-edge Airo trainsets will join the Amtrak Cascades route, operating four daily trips between Va...
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California-based Joby Aviation, an aerial mobility company, recently remotely operated its supervised autonomous J208 aircraft in Utah, the penultimate stop on the company’s Electric Skies tour. ...
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Colorado-based OmniTRAX, a rail management company, recently added 25 acres in Casa Grande, Ariz., to its Phoenix industrial outdoor storage (IOS) portfolio. “The Casa Grande acquisition is our l...
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The move to merge Union Pacific Railroad and Norfolk Southern Railroad made progress recently, the two companies said, as the Surface Transportation Board rejected applications to dismiss the merger. ...
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Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) unveiled a plan on Tuesday for safe, reliable and accessible service. Accelerate is the agency’s plan for where it is going over the com...
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Two new shortlines have been added to BNSF Railway’s Shortline Select program. The program provides members with expanded opportunities to reach an even broader consumer base. Shortlines partner ...
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CN’s U.S. rail subsidiaries Illinois Central Railroad Company and Grand Trunk Western Railroad Co. and Amtrak recently reached agreements that will strengthen their partnership and support safe, rel...
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Texas-based BNSF Railway, a freight transportation company, recently partnered with Spearpoint Logistics, a company operating a warehouse adjacent to the BNSF Alliance Intermodal terminal in Fort Wort...
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The North Carolina Railroad Company said it is investing up to $250,000 to support a new rail spur serving Atlantic Packaging’s warehouse expansion in Tabor City. The rail spur will connect Atla...
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Canadian National Railway (CN) has filed its description of the anticipated conditions it plans to seek in the proposed merger of Union Pacific (UP) and Norfolk Southern (NS). In its filing with t...
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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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