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January 24, 2025; Regulatory; For House Rail Subcommittee, An Earful on Rail. Rail industry stakeholders on Jan. 23 outlined their priorities and suggestions for potential surface transportation legislative proposals in the 119th Congress during a hearing of the House Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure, Railroads, Pipelines, and …
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Jan 13, 2025 · February 25, 2009; Rapid Transit; Transit market buoys Wabtec 4Q08 profit. Crediting strength in its transit and transportation markets, Wilmerding, Pa.-based Wabtec Corp. Feb. 25 said it posted fourth-quarter net income of $31.1 million, or 64 cents per share, on sales of $405.2 million. That compares with net income of $28.7 million, or 58 cents per share, on sales of $365.2 million in the ...
Nineteenth in a Series: Tolls Will Start Jan. 5 (Updated Jan. 4, 8:30 ...
Jan 4, 2025 · As reported in Part 18 of this series, it appeared that the TBTA (Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority) would start collecting congestion pricing tolls on Jan. 5 and sending the revenue to
Fourth of a Series: New Through Tracks Proposed for L.A. Union …
4 days ago · Los Angeles Union Station caused a sensation when it opened in 1939. For first-time visitors to the City of Angels who alight from an Amtrak train there, it still does. The station
Building the Future - Railway Age
Dec 13, 2024 · In the meantime, though, he was qualified for a role at Vigor shipyard. “Jason Hutson [a Project Labor Agreement Specialist] at Sound Transit had helped me get my PACT application in at the last minute, and then he helped me get into the laborers’ union at the shipyard, and that work was considered essential through the pandemic because we were working on Navy ships.
History of U.S. Diesel-Electric AC Traction - Railway Age
Jan 2, 2025 · The first locomotive to successfully use an AC (alternating current) three-phase asynchronous traction motor drive system was the German DE2500 diesel-electric in 1971, built by Henschel-BBC. DB (Deutsche Bundesbahn) Class 202, an
Railway Age / Parsons Next-Gen Train Control 2024
Railway Age’s Next-Gen Train Control (NGTC) Conference – presented jointly with Parsons – has been the global rail industry’s single-most important communications and signaling and advanced-technology event since 1995.. NGTC 2024 gives C&S and IT professionals an ideal environment for sharing lessons-learned with industry peers. Presentations from …
President-Elect Intends to Nominate Fink as FRA Lead
Dec 23, 2024 · The President-elect has expressed his intent to nominate David Armstrong Fink, former President of Pan Am Railways and the son of David Andrew Fink, who served as President of Guilford Transportation before it rebranded as Pan Am, to lead the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), according to multiple news reports.
Transit Briefs: Amtrak, MBTA, Metrolinx - Railway Age
Nov 25, 2024 · The MBTA Board of Directors on Nov. 21 approved a $165 million option with Hyundai Rotem for an additional 39 bilevels for Commuter Rail operations, according to the State House News Service.. MBTA’s original order, struck in 2019, was for 83 bilevels.It was funded by the commonwealth of Massachusetts to replace aging Commuter Rail …
Progress Rail, Beacon Sign MSA to Continue Servicing Fleet of ...
Dec 20, 2024 · Progress Rail on Dec. 16 announced that it has signed a new 10-year maintenance service agreement (MSA) with London-based Beacon Rail to continue servicing Beacon’s fleet of EMD® JT42CWR locomotives in Europe.