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New technology informs trains about earthquake tremors before they can do damage; testing being conducted in two California towns.

The additions to an original contract for 113 multilevel cars will provide extra capacity on nine existing peak-hour, peak-direction routes.

Fatal Rail Accident Eerily Similar to Lac-Mégantic Oil Train Disaster The only way to have a rail accident that is “eerily similar” to the Lac-Mégantic oil train disaster that killed 47 people and wiped out the small Quebec downtown is if a massive regulatory failure did not address the causes of that 2013 tragedy. Which is exactly what has happened. And is why a fatal train accident on February 4 in Field, British Columbia, was dubbed “eerily similar” to the one in Lac-Mégant...

Cyberattacks are increasing in number and voracity. Unsplash Imagine waking up one morning and learning from your preferred news source that agents from an adversarial nation-state were fanned out across the country, stealing information and documents from private corporations and government agencies. This horrific news would occupy headlines of every news outlet in the country, and Americans would naturally be stunned and scared. While we haven’t had headlines such as these, we might as wel...

March 05, 2021 People News: New CEO for Brightline Holdings; Directors for FMW Solutions Written by Marybeth Luczak, Executive Editor Brightline has tapped its former President and Chief Development Officer to lead the newly formed Brightline Holdings; railroad contracting, consulting and engineering firm FMW Solutions LLC has hired Directors of Special Projects and Safety and Compliance. Mike Reininger is CEO of Brightline Holdings, which will ...

February 03, 2021 CTC Allocates $6.45MM for Short Line Improvement Projects Written by Marybeth Luczak, Executive Editor The Short-Line Railroad Improvement Program provides funds to short-line railroad infrastructure projects “intended to improve freight mobility, volume thresholds and support modern rail freight traffic and the communities and industries they serve throughout California.” (BNSF) The California Transportation Commission (CT...

January 19, 2021 NJ Transit’s Kevin Corbett on Completing PTC: Rail Group On Air Written by William C. Vantuono, Editor-in-Chief New Jersey Transit met the December 31, 2020 federally mandated deadline for implementing Positive Train Control. NJT President and CEO Kevin Corbett discusses the project’s complexity, and the “come from behind” coordination and cooperation it took with numerous stakeholders to reach the finish line with time ...

One day after its historic impeachment votes, the Democratic-led House gave President Donald Trump an overwhelming bipartisan victory Thursday on a renegotiated trade agreement with Canada and Mexico. By a 385-41 vote, the House approved a bill that puts in place terms of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. The legislation passed after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and her colleagues won key... Immigration Dec 13, 2019 It was nighttime when Pedro Lucas came hom...