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The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) has inaugurated the first of the 15 ACS-64 electric locomotives developed by Siemens.
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Federal Railroad Administrator Ron Batory joined CSX and the National Railroad Construction and Maintenance Association (NRC), as well as Clark Construction, Delta Railroad Construction and Parsons, for a tour of the Class I’s Virginia Avenue Tunnel project.
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The results of the survey “are a net neutral for new railcar demand in the next 12 months,” Elkott says.
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Railroad shippers anticipate an average base rate increase of 4.7% over the next 6-12 months, a “substantial” 90 basis point increase from the 1Q18 survey. This marks the fifth consecutive quarterly increase in shipper expectations, in addition to the second-largest sequential increase.
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The new $8 million plant in Green, Ohio, closer to the Akron-Canton Airport, will encompass 120,000 square feet of manufacturing, distribution and office space, about 60% larger than the 75,000 square feet Seco occupies now in North Canton.
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The New York State Department of Transportation awarded $19 million toward construction of Central New York’s first Inland Port in DeWitt, to help move containerized freight between the Port of New York and New Jersey and the existing CSX terminal east of Syracuse.
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The US Federal Transit Administration (FTA) has awarded safety certifications to North Carolina (NC), Puerto Rico and Washington under the rail transit State Safety Oversight (SSO) programme.
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New York City Transit (NYC Transit) is seeking an expression of interest from firms experienced in designing, overhauling and furnishing R160 FUJI Linear Door Operators and all necessary appurtenances for the Safe and Effective operation of the rail car doors within the NYC Transit system.
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On 11.07.2018, SEPTA locomotive 901 completed its inaugural run. It marks the start of the commercial use of a batch of 15 new ACS-64 electric locomotives in Pennsylvania, US.
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Nine of the 10 carload commodity groups posted an increase compared with the same week in 2017.
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HGS Railway, an affiliate of OmniTRAX, has acquired the Alabama & Tennessee River Railway (ATN) and the Fulton County Railway (FCR) from CSX.
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The IRAP program aims to improve rail and freight access, economic opportunity and job growth, officials said.
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The South Carolina Ports Authority announced record container volume of 2.2 million twenty-foot equivalent container units (TEUs) handled during the 2018 fiscal year, an increase of 3% over the previous fiscal year.
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The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has issued a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for $500,000 in state grants under the Railroad Safety State Participation Pilot Grant Program.
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The North County Transit District (NCTD) Board of Directors has approved the purchase of five new SC-44 Charger diesel-electric locomotives from Siemens to replace vehicles that were originally built between 1975-1992.
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Two Ohio men are in custody after allegedly hopping onto a CSX train and then calling 911 to report they were scared because the train was going too fast, authorities said.
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Chicago is the nation's busiest rail hub. It's also the most congested choke-point for train traffic in the country.
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Schenck Process has obtained US legal-for-trade status for its MultiTrain LegalWeight in-motion wagon weighing system. This uses instrumented concrete sleepers with high-precision load cells to measure the vertical force applied through the rail with an accuracy of 0·2%.
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The passenger rail cars on an Amtrak train that derailed near Seattle last December, killing three people, were allowed by federal regulators to stay in service even though they didn’t meet current crash-protection standards, federal investigators said Tuesday.
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It’s time to stop the California High-Speed Rail boondoggle.
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The purchase of five Siemens SC-44 Charger diesel-electric locomotives for use on Coaster commuter services into San Diego was approved by the North County Transit District board at its June meeting.
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Short line group OmniTRAX has acquired the Alabama & Tennessee River Railway and the Fulton County Railway from CSX.
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The annual award honors customers who implement release prevention protocols, corrective action plans and have zero non-accident releases (NARs) of regulated hazardous materials shipments.
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The ATN, based in Gadsden, Ala., operates 120 miles of track to transport cement, pulp board, food products, canned goods, steel and other commodities.
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