Latest Rail Industry News
Effective immediately, Amtrak President and CEO Wick Moorman has reduced Amtrak's senior management team by half into six direct reports to increase organizational effectiveness.
Kansas City Southern subsidiary KCSM Servicios S.A. de C.V. (KCSMS) has appointed Kurt Jacobs vice president transportation, reporting to KCSMS senior vice president operations Oscar Del Cueto.
The Reading & Northern Railroad, a privately held railroad in eastern Pennsylvania, has announced that, for the first time in 25 years, track speed on a portion of its Main Line has been raised to 40 miles per hour.
Railmark Holdings, Inc. has acquired the Yreka Western Railroad Company (YW), a short line railroad serving the California communities of Yreka and Montague.
The investment firm of Altus Capital Partners has sold Rocla Concrete Tie, Inc. of Denver, Colo., to German-based rail infrastructure supplier
The Association of American Railroads (AAR) has reported that U.S. rail traffic for the month of December 2016 when compared with December 2015 was up 6.9 percent or 128,362 carloads and intermodal units. Total U.S. rail traffic for the month was 1,985,512 carloads and intermodal units.
Metra, the operator of the Northeast Illinois commuter rail system, is alerting drivers that starting January 1, 2017, penalties will double for those who try to cross railroad tracks after the grade crossing systems have activated.
New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo has announced that New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Chairman and CEO Thomas Prendergast will retire in early 2017.