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 Massachusetts Department of Transportation recently awarded four grants totaling $4.4 million through the Microtransit and Last-Mile Transit Grant Program. The program funds microtransit and o...
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South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster said he supports the pending merger between Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern. In a letter to the Surface Transportation Board, McMaster said it was South Caroli...
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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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New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is advancing its fourth and final construction contract for Phase 2 of the Second Avenue Subway, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul recently annou...
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The Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities has proposed new rulemaking that would strengthen safety standards at railroad crossings throughout the state. The new regulations would establish ...
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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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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) continues to move forward and reach milestones on the Interborough Express (IBX) project between Brooklyn and Queens. ...
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Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) has launched the first phase of a security initiative focused on strengthening safety, increasing fare compliance and enforcing DART’s Rider Code of Conduct across t...
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American Industrial Transport, Inc. (AITX) announced three executive leadership appointments it said will strengthen its leadership for the next phase of railcar solutions. The organization said P...
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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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Alberta-based Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) recently announced that it set a record for August for transporting Canadian grain and grain products. The August record covers the first four weeks o...
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Seattle’s Sound Transit announced its newest rail service station will open Sept. 30. The station, Pinehurst Station, will connect communities near NE 130th Street to high-capacity rail rapid tr...
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The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) recently awarded Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) a $70 million rail replacement grant. DART will use funding to support the replacement of 53, more than 30...
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Canadian company Alstom announced it has won a contract to design, engineer, manufacture and support a new Long Distance, Regional and Remote (LDRR) fleet for VIA Rail Canada As part of the contrac...
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The Federal Transit Administration recently awarded Pittsburgh Regional Transit (PRT) and the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) a combined $96 million in Rail Vehicle Replacem...
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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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U.S. Reps. John Moolenaar (R-MI), Craig Goldman (R-TX), and Jay Obernolte's (R-CA) said their legislation on locomotive regulation had passed the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. The legisl...
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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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