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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-Mégantic by Garland Chow, a professor and transportation expert at the University of British Columbia�...

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 well have. The information and investigative cyberattacks the nation has been dealing with for years, a...

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 “oversee strategy for the company across various geographies and advance plans for expansion into ...