Visitors check out equipment on display at InnoTrans 2026. At left is a new Alstom Intercity EMU built for Italy; at right is CRRC’s Vellink subway train. Keith Fender BERLIN — InnoTrans, the largest ...
NOVI, Mich. — CSX is planning to abolish 165 maintenance-of-way positions and furlough more than 1,000 workers, the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division has announced. In a post on its ...
Resident Carmine Giso makes a point during a Sept. 17 meeting on Amtrak’s proposed Chicago maintenance facility, eliciting a positive reaction from project opponents. Bob Johnston CHICAGO — Amtrak’s ...
Union Pacific SD70AH No. 8898 and two Norfolk Southern Dash 9-44CW locomotives lead an eastbound manifest freight into Elmhurst, Ill., on July 7, 2026. The Surface Transportation Board has turned down ...
WASHINGTON — Amtrak and Canadian National have reached a new host railroad operating agreement that settles a dispute dating to 2013. The railroads said today that the agreements “strengthen their ...
Two Colorado firms have developed a fire-mitigation system that can prevent wildfires from encroaching onto railroad rights of way. Matrix Wildfire has developed the SENTINEL apparatus that can ...
A westbound Norfolk Southern intermodal train splits the signals at Huntingdon, Pa., in April 2022. BNSF Railway says it will request trackage rights on the former Pennsylvania Railroad main line to ...
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announces $5.3 million in federal grants for rail projects at Cincinnati Union Terminal on Aug. 14, 2026. At left is interim Amtrak President Byl Herrmann; at right ...
WASHINGTON — Federal regulators today asked the Belt Railway of Chicago to explain increases in freight car inventory and dwell at Clearing Yard since the beginning of April. “We are concerned with ...
Amtrak would receive $5.85 billion in operating funding in 2027 under the transportation bill introduced in the House of Representatives, more than doubling its 2026 grants. David Lassen WASHINGTON — ...
OMAHA, Neb. — Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern expect to file their revised merger application on April 30, as planned, UP CEO Jim Vena said on the railroad’s earnings call today. The railroads are ...
The Greenbrier Cos. and TTX unveiled America 250 patriotic boxcars on March 31, 2026, at the Greenbrier maintenance facility in Cleburne, Texas. Lance Lassen CLEBURNE, Texas — Freight car manufacturer ...