On Sept. 9, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) announced that $25 million will be awarded to the Salmon Bay Bridge project by the Infrastructure for Rebuilding America (INFRA) grant program.
Union Pacific told customers in a service announcement that a curfew for train movement has been initiated in the area of Oakridge, Ore., due to the Cedar Creek fire.
The Osage Avenue railroad bridge in Adams County, Neb., is going unclaimed.
Kansas City Southern will soon begin a construction project that will double the amount of freight trains moving in and out of Mexico.
John Cech, vice president, Engineering at BNSF, is the recipient of the 2022 Engineer of the Year Award from Railway Track & Structures Media.
Work done on railroad track earlier in the day on Aug. 29 may have led to a derailment that killed a Union Pacific conductor.
The $222 million project to replace the Merchants Bridge that links Missouri and Illinois near downtown St. Louis is nearing completion, and the St. Louis Regional Freightway gave invited guests and the public the opportunity to see one of the last significant milestones in the project firsthand from the special vantage point of a riverboat cruise.
Norfolk Southern’s TOP|SPG operating plan—which stands for Thoroughbred Operating Plan | Service Productivity Growth—has evolved from NS’s previous plans, TOP 21 among them.
The top news stories RT&S was covering the week ending Aug. 12.
Union Pacific will replace a bridge on its western Oregon line on Sunday.
CSX believes it is time to let go.
When he got up on the morning of Aug. 8, David Starr had no thoughts of being an emergency flagger.
L.B. Foster, a long-time supplier of rail spikes and anchors for the railroad industry, said it is selling this line of business to another company.
The Georgia Ports Authority closed out Fiscal Year 2022 with its busiest June ever, handling 494,107 twenty-foot equivalent container units. GPA is handling the highest volume of ad hoc and new service vessels the Port of Savannah has experienced to date.
This week, the Canadian Minister of Transport, the Honourable Omar Alghabra, announced that the Government of Canada is taking new actions to improve rail safety, in alignment with the Transportation Safety Board of Canada’s recommendations regarding the derailment in Field, British Columbia, in 2019.
The Port of Little Rock continues to add intermodal opportunities with barge-to-rail and barge-to-truck capabilities.
The top news stories RT&S was following this week.
Union Pacific is making land claims out west, and it is leading people to believe the Class 1 is preparing for a line expansion.
A crumbling bridge in South Philadelphia is a daily reminder of a broken promise, according to residents.
CSX announced that it is outsourcing nearly 140 information technology jobs to a company based in India.
