TORONTO — Completion of the long-delayed Eglinton Crosstown light rail line has been pushed back from its latest target this fall into sometime in 2023, triggering calls for an inquiry into the problem-plagued transit project. After Ontario transit agency Metrolinx said in a statement on its website that the project would not meet its fall […]
CRANFORD, N.J. — Ken Kellaway, co-founder and CEO of RoadOne IntermodaLogistics Inc. has been named the 2022 winner of the Containerization and Intermodal Institute’s Connie Award, the institute has announced. Kellaway, who has spent more than 35 years in intermodal logistics, has guided RoadOne to become the leading U.S. provider of port and rail drayage […]
WASHINGTON — Train dispatchers today became the fourth union to ratify their contract agreement with the Class I railroads. The American Train Dispatchers Association, which represents 1,500 dispatchers, voted in favor of the deal by a 64%-36% margin, the union said in a statement. The agreement follows the recommendations of the Presidential Emergency Board, which […]
WASHINGTON – Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern will make their closing arguments for their merger on Thursday, the sixth and final day of Surface Transportation Board hearings on the first Class I railroad combination in two decades. CP and KCS also will rebut criticism and comments from other railroads, state and local officials, and […]
Composite ties Wood crossties have been part of railroading from the beginning and North American railroads still purchase and install 25 million new wood ties in a typical year. Although concrete ties, which appeared in the 1970s, are increasingly common wood supports 95% of North America’s track. But hovering around the fringes is a third […]
WESTBURY, N.Y. — The Long Island Rail Road opened the third and final segment of its Third Track project on Monday, completing the capacity expansion on 9.8 miles of its main line between Floral Park and Hicksville, N.Y. In a press conference in Westbury following a ceremonial ride from Hicksville with officials including Gov. Kathy […]
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. — State and Orange County officials have declared a state of emergency over the instability that has closed the rail line along the Pacific Coast in San Clemente, allowing them to approve $6 million in repairs, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports. Passenger and commuter rail service along the Surf Line could resume […]
CHICAGO — GATX Corp. will purchase 15,000 new railcars, including at least 6,000 tank cars, from Trinity Industries subsidiary Trinity Rail in 2023 through 2028, with an option for an additional 500 in each of those years. Trinity’s announcement said the deal is valued at $1.8 billion. The agreement announced Monday calls for 1,200 tank […]
MONTREAL — Canadian National has published its 2022-23 Winter Plan, which outlines measures by the railroad to meet operating needs during winter weather as required by the Canada Transportation Act. The railroad says those measures include an increase of 850 employees between the start of 2022 and the end of June, with 500 additional conductors […]
WASHINGTON – Surface Transportation Board members appear skeptical about CSX Transportation’s bid to force its way on to the Kansas City Southern-Norfolk Southern Meridian Speedway. The Meridian Speedway — which runs from Meridian, Miss., to Shreveport, La., — is the shortest, fastest route between the Southeast and Southwest. NS and KCS formed the Meridian Speedway […]
LOWELL, Ark. — J.B. Hunt Transport Services will open new transload facilities to transfer cargo between international and domestic 53-foot containers in Seattle and Laredo, Texas, giving it facilities at four of the nation’s largest ocean ports as well as the largest land port of entry into the U.S. “The complexities of international shipping continue to […]
BNSF’s Truxton Flyover project Truxton, Ariz., is not exactly one of the metropolitan centers of the American Southwest. “Population: very small,” says Craig Rasmussen, BNSF Railway assistant vice president, engineering services and structures. Officially, as of the 2020 census, 104 people live in the hamlet 42 miles northeast of Kingman, Ariz., on U.S. Route 66. […]
