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Positive Train Control AAR outlines PTC progress, sets goals for 2016

  Positive train control (PTC) implementation is expected to cost the freight railroad industry $9 billion to $10 billion, according to a PTC progress update released yesterday by the Association of American Railroads (AAR). As of Dec. 31, 2015, the freight...

Labor Rail unions petition FRA for uniform speed signs

  1/13/2016   The SMART Transportation Division and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen have submitted a petition to the Federal Railroad Administration for a rulemaking that mandates uniform warning speed signs in advance of a permanent...

Railroading People Murphy named Operation Lifesaver president, CEO

    Bonnie Murphy, a former commuter-rail and Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) official, will succeed Joyce Rose as the next president and chief executive officer ofOperation Lifesaver Inc. (OLI), the organization announced yesterday. Bonnie Murphy...

Merry Christmas

THE TRAIN CREW The seven steel-ribbed coaches Draw smoothly to the shed. And you and other passengers Now hurry home to bed; You’ve done your easy hundred miles In ninety minutes clear— Then thank the man who brought you, The old gray engineer, Your hope, your...

Amtrak Amtrak’s Boardman announces retirement plans

  Amtrak President and Chief Executive Officer Joseph Boardman informed the railroad’s board and employees  that he will step down from his post in September 2016. Joseph Boardman By the time he retires, Boardman will have served as Amtrak’s top...