WASHINGTON — Efforts to prevent train accidents caused by human error took moved forward with the installation of a technologically advanced train simulator, Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) Administrator Joseph C. Szabo announced.
WASHINGTON – Testifying before a House Appropriations subcommittee , Amtrak President and CEO Joseph Boardman asked Congress to address the railroad’s “most urgent unfunded need”: the replacement, expansion and modernization of an aging fleet of locomotives and passenger rail cars.
OMAHA, Neb. — Union Pacific Railroad’s historic steam locomotive, No. 844, will travel more than 3,500 miles from its base in Wyoming on a 28-day, eight-state tour to South Texas, to celebrate the railroad’s history and heritage.
WILMERDING, Pa. — Wabtec Corp. has acquired Xorail, a provider of signal engineering and design services, for $40 million in cash, the company announced.
ARLINGTON, Va. — The Chlorine Institute is asking the Federal Railroad Administration to re-issue its Positive Train Control rule with a corrected cost-benefit analysis.
WASHINGTON — The Surface Transportation Board will hold a public hearing this spring in Maine on the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway’s application to abandon 233 miles of rail line in Aroostook and Penobscot counties.