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Class 8 orders reach 301,500 units in 12 months, with almost all 2023 build slots filled.

Over the past year, total net orders reached 303,000 units.

Orders averaged just shy of 18,000 units per month in the first half of 2022, suggesting recent activity is healthy.

Railroad industry news about: Loram Maintenance of Way, acquisition, Sentient Science, FTR Transportation Intelligence, Jonathan Starks, Jami Sargent, Duos Technologies Group Inc., Railcar Inspection Portal, Thales, Adif, Heartwood, MaxAccel, rail suppliers. From the editors of Progressive Railroading Magazine

FTR CEO ahd Chairman Eric Starks provided an economic and trailer industry update at the 2022 NTDA Convention in Colorado Springs, Colo. Read more on TPS.

Some media prognosticators predict a recession theyre calling a "trucking bloodbath," as they did in 2019. But will it really happen the way they say?

The Target Is Actually the Hunter May 07, 2021 FINANCIAL EDGE, RAILWAY AGE MAY 2021 ISSUE: The scuffle between CP and CN to acquire Kansas City Southern requires comment. In the 2021 Railroad Financial Desk Book, it was noted that KCS’s franchise value was above the $208 per share offered by Blackstone, and that the July 2020 rejection of the Blackstone offer by the KCS management team was financially astute and in the interest of shareholders. After CN’s most recent offer, KCS’s stock is...