The former Greenville Yard is shown in yellow just north of Staten Island. Port Authority of New York and New Jersey website NEW YORK — The former Pennsylvania Railroad’s Greenville (Bayonne) yard is no more. As of Monday, the storied yard became Global Container Transport Bayonne ExpressRail Port Jersey. The name change crowns a $149-million […]
Jim Vena, Union Pacific chief operating officer Canadian National OMAHA, Neb. — Union Pacific has named former Canadian National executive Jim Vena as its chief operating officer, effectively putting a protege of E. Hunter Harrison in charge of its transition to Precision Scheduled Railroading. Vena, 60, served as CN’s chief operating officer from February 2013 […]
How did your favorite railroad fare in traffic growth last year? Probably about the same as every other railroad. Five of the big six Class I systems ran neck-and-neck and ended 2018 with 4-percent traffic growth, according to a review of the railroads’ Association of American Railroads weekly carload reports for the final week of […]
MARCO ISLAND, Fla. – The introduction of positive train control remains very much a work in progress, with all the bugs and growing pains that accompany a new technology. But for all that, PTC has definitely begun demonstrating its ability to avoid accidents. Jim LeVere, BNSF Railway vice president, engineering – signals, telecommunications and network […]
Matt Rose MARCO ISLAND, Fla. – Matt Rose thinks the railroad industry is placing itself at regulatory risk with its embrace of Precision Scheduled Railroading. “We have this common-carrier obligation to provide freight service to all customers in all markets,” said Rose, BNSF Railway’s executive chairman, during a Monday morning “fireside chat” at the annual […]
No. 576’s move is set for Jan. 13, but prep work begins Monday. Trains: Jim Wrinn NASHVILLE – No. 576’s slumber is just about over. On Monday, crews from a moving company will get started at Centennial Park, preparing to haul Nashville Chattanooga & St. Louis 4-8-4 No. 576 from its home since 1953 to […]
President Donald Trump The White House When Trains editors look at the Top 10 stories of the year, it’s always a close call on which stories make it and which do not. Here are the stories that came close, but didn’t quite make the Top Ten cut for 2018. California High Speed Rail: Seemingly on […]
A Union Pacific train crosses underneath a positive train control-equipped signal bridge on BNSF Railway tracks in Cajon Pass, Calif., in 2013. TRAINS: Steve Sweeney A year ago, three of the Class I railroad systems — Canadian National, Canadian Pacific, and CSX Transportation — were operating under the late E. Hunter Harrison’s Precision Scheduled Railroading […]
Brightline locomotives and trainsets appear at the railroad’s West Palm Beach “b” shops in January. Bob Johnston MIAMI — Could privately owned and operated passenger rail ever succeed in the U.S., given the billions of dollars of public spending lavished annually on competing highway, transit, and air travel transportation modes? If so, what would it […]
Cars will Union Pacific’s West Colton, Calif., yard in April 2014. The railroads hope to make their networks more efficient by incentivizing shippers to release cars more quickly. Brian Schmidt WASHINGTON – Federal regulators are shining a spotlight on Class I railroad demurrage and accessorial charges, which the railroads levy on customers for things such […]
GARY, Ind. — The state will award $121 million in matching funds for grade-crossing separation projects, Gov. Eric Holcomb has announced. Under the state’s Local Trax funding, communities receiving funds must provide 20 percent of the funds for land acquisition and construction. Norfolk Southern, CSX Transportation and Canadian National will also provide $10 million in […]
A CSX K-series unit train passes the signals at CP 79 in Harborcreek, Pa., just before the PTC cut over in March 2018. Stephan M. Koenig WASHINGTON — This was a significant year for many who followed railroads trackside as change was definitely felt and seen all over the U.S. rail network. It was the […]
