Railway Age back issues from October 2008:
Traffic originated.(Industry Indicators)(Statistical table)
Oct 01, 2008 ... <Pre> TRAFFIC ORIGINATED CARLOADS WEEK 38 ENDING SEPTEMBER 20, 2008 MAJOR U.S. RAILROADS By commodity 2008 2007% Change Agricultural products37,198 44,064 -15.6% Chemicals29,127 ...
Short line and regional traffic index.(Industry Indicators)(Statistical table)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2008 ... <Pre> Short line and regional traffic index Carloads Carloads %originated originated Change Carloads, by commodity Aug. '08 Aug. '07 Chemicals41,576 ...
2008 preliminary railroad accident / incident data.(Industry Indicators)(Statistical table)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2008 ... <Pre> 2008 Preliminary railroad accident / incident data Jan.-June Jan.-June % 2008 2007 Change Train accidents1,205 1,287 -6.4% Train accident rate per ...
Calling all experts.(from the editor)
Oct 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The value of having a staff of contributing editors who really know their business was forcefully demonstrated on Oct. 2, when our office was reeling with the news that railroad stocks, which up to that point had been outperforming the market, seemed to be ...
CP purchase of DM&E wins STB approval.(industry outlook)(Canadian Pacific Ltd.)(Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad Corp.)(Surface Transportation Board)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2008 ... A new rail line to the Powder River Basin coalfields came a step closer Sept. 30 with the Surface Transportation Board's announcement that it has conditionally approved the Canadian Pacific's application to acquire the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad and its wholly owned subsidiary, ...
Senate OKs $13.1 billion, five-year Amtrak plan.(industry outlook)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Almost overlooked amidst turmoil surrounding the nation's financial market woes, Amtrak's outlook for future fiscal years was bolstered dramatically as, by a 74-24 vote, the Senate Oct. 1 passed the Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 2008, which contains provisions to invest ...
For UP, continued high capital outlays.(industry outlook)(Union Pacific Corp.)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Union Pacific is on target to spend $3.1 billion on capital improvements in 2008, "and although we are still evaluating the demand environment, we currently expect to invest something close to that amount again in 2009," Union Pacific Chairman Jim Young ...
BNSF.(North America)(Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp.)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2008 ... BNSF: Awarded a contract to Wi-Tronix[R], LLC, Bolingbrook, Ill., for an additional 800 Wi-Tracker[TM] locomotive remote monitoring systems. The technology, which will be deployed on GE AC4400, GE Dash 9, and EMD SD70MAC locomotives, "will provide BNSF with access to locomotive onboard ...
Lake State Railroad Co. (Saginaw, Mich.).(North America)(RailComm)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Lake State Railroad Co. (Saginaw, Mich.): Incorporated RailComm's Track Warrant Control functionality into its existing Domain Operations Controller System (DOC[R]). During the past two years, LSRC has dispatched trains ...
NJ Transit.(North America)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2008 ... NJ Transit: Awarded a consortium led by Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc. and including Gannett Fleming Transit & Rail Systems and HNTB Corp. a contract for design services linked to NIT's Portal Bridge Capacity, Enhancement Project. The contract value was not disclosed, though NIT estimates ...
Union Pacific.(North America)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Union Pacific: Ordered two Railpower Technologies RP2OCD Eco-Motive locomotives. These EPA Tier II certified, sly axle, 2,000-hp locomotives will join four Railpower ...
Railpool.(Worldwide)(contract awarded )(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Railpool (Munich, Germany): Bombardier Transportation will supply 58 Traxx locomotives worth $276 million to the leasing company. The agreement includes an option for an additional 80 locomotives. Final assembly will take place in Kassel, Germany. Delivery of the first locomotives is ...
TTC signaling contract to US&S.(market)(Toronto Transit Commission)(Union Switch & Signal)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) has awarded Ansaldo STS-Union Switch & Signal a $13.9 million contract for a new signaling system for the South Yonge area of the Yonge-University-Spadina (YUS) Line of the Toronto subway, The contract is expected to be ...
Southwest.(Supply Briefs )(Southwest Signal Engineering formed subsidiary Xorail Construction Services, LLC )(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Southwest Signal Engineering has formed a new subsidiary called Xorail Construction Services, LLC ("XCS"). The change in structure will allow the company to grow its railroad construction business, Southwest has recently been awarded two large construction projects, and is participating in ...
The Andersons.(Supply Briefs)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2008 ... The Andersons, Inc., whose operations include railcar leasing and repair, has opened a new car shop in Ogden, Utah, on the property of Utah Central Railway, one of ...
Westcode.(Supply Briefs)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Westcode Inc., in conjunction with Bombardier Transport Canada, is providing an environmentally friendly HVAC system for Toronto-based GO Transit's fleet of Bombardier bi-levels, Westcode says its hermetic scroll compressor design is the first in ...
Last month's tragic head-on crash of a Metrolink commuter train and a Union Pacific freight, which killed 25 and injured 130, spurred a renewed call for PTC to be installed on rights-of-way shared by freight and passenger trains.(Rail Update)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: Last month's tragic head-on crash of a Metrolink commuter train and a Union Pacific freight, which killed 25 and injured 130, spurred a renewed call for PTC to be installed on rights-of-way shared by freight and passenger trains. A preliminary ...
Safety: front and center.(Rail Update)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Two landmark pieces of legislation that were presented to the U.S. Senate as a package al on Oct. 1--the Rail Safety Improvement Act and the Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act--passed by a 74-24 margin were signed by President Bush. The Passenger Rail Investment and ...
Dahlman Rose/Railway Age transportation conference report.(Rail Update)(Conference news)
Oct 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Dahlman Rose & Co. Global Transportation Conference in New York, co-sponsored by Railway Age, offered the railroads an opportunity to highlight the strengths that will help sustain them in troubled economic times. CSX CFO Oscar Munoz set ...
Searching for cracks in all the right places.(Rail Update)
Oct 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Searching for defects in side frames, bolsters, and knuckles is getting easier. With wet fluorescent magnetic particle (MT) testing, defects can be found before they become critical, improving the freight car component reliability. In recent years, casting ...
"Live, from the train".(Transit Update)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Fifty States in 50 Days, the theme of ABC's Good Morning America program up until Election Day this November, was conceived as a means to measure the nation's pulse in turbulent times. Produced in association with USA Today, the first leg of this ABC News ...
NYCT dismantling "large, unwieldy bureaucracy".(Transit Update)(New York City Transit)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2008 ... MTA New York City Transit will expand its Line General Manager program throughout the nation's No. 1 subway system, following successful pilot implementation on its 7 and L lines, which began last year. The agency says the decentralization move is the first major managerial reorganization ...
Ground Zero hub revised.(Transit Update)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Design plans for the proposed $2.5 billion transit hub serving New York's World Trade Center site have been revised to cut costs and expedite its opening, The revised plan now includes four to six columns in the underground ...
Austin.(Transit Briefs)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Austin, Tex.'s Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the Federal Railroad Administration have resolved safety issues surrounding the city's 32-mile diesel light rail transit (DLRT) ...
New Jersey.(Transit Briefs)(Gannett Fleming Transit & Rail Systems)(contract awarded)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2008 ... NJ Transit has awarded a joint venture of Jacobs Engineering Group Inc,, Gannett Fleming Transit & Rail Systems, and HNTB Corp, a contract for design services linked to NJT's Portal Bridge Capacity Enhancement ...
Riding high: experts say fundamentals run strong on the Kansas City Southern.(Cover story)
Oct 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It's often been said that opportunity seldom knocks more than once. In Kansas City Southern's case, opportunity has come calling several times, and each time, this railroad's leadership has been swift to respond. While KCS's Lazaro Cardenas, ...
Remote possibilities: with advanced technology, FRA-required inspection and testing of grade crossing warning systems can be done remotely.(COMMUNICATIONS & SIGNALS)
Oct 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For railroads, grade crossings are expensive headaches with great potential for serious accidents. There's been much serious effort to reduce grade crossing accidents, with a good deal of success. Nevertheless, most railroads consider one such accident one ...
Moving toward green: forty years of railroad environmental practice.(ENVIRONMENTAL)
Oct 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A case can be made that 2008 marks the 40th anniversary of the birth of the modern era of railroad industry environmental practice. It is now evident that railroads' superior environmental performance is a significant asset both in North America and ...
Metro's mid-life mandate: the nation's showcase urban rail network goes shopping for capital rehab funds, as surging demand prompts it to seek partnerships to expand its reach.(TRANSIT)
Oct 01, 2008; ... On March 27, 1976, Washington, D.C. received a big bicentennial present--its own rail transit network--when Washington Metropolitan Area Transportation Authority (WMATA) began operations on the first 4.6 miles of a planned 98-mile Metro "subway" system, roughly half of it actually ...
Skanska USA Civil.(HIGH PROFILE)(appointment of Rich Cavallaro)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Skanska USA Civil has promoted Rich Cavallaro to President, effective Jan. I, 2009. Cavallaro currently is Executive Vice President of Skanska USA Civil Northeast. He holds a Mechanical Engineering Degree from City College of NewYork and has 25 years of ...
Meetings.(Calendar)
Oct 01, 2008 ... December 11-12 The New Railway Age, Washington Marriott, Washington, D.C. Website: www.railwayage.com/conference/conference3.html; Email: conferences@sbpub.com. 2009 January 7-10 NRC 2009 Annual Conference. Sanibel Harbour Resort & Spa, Fort ...
(October 1908): ICC vs. Harriman.(100 YEARS AGO IN Railroad Age Gazette INCLUDING THE RAILROAD GAZETTE AND THE RAILWAY AGE)(United States. Interstate Commerce Commission)(Edward H. Harriman)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Among the important cases which will soon occupy the attention of the United States Supreme Court is that of the Interstate Commerce Commission against Edward H. Harriman. The question at issue is whether Mr. Harriman, President of the Union Pacific, can be ...
Kansas City Southern.(people)
Oct 01, 2008 ... KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN--Gil A. Niesen, Jr. named ...
Arcadis.(Suppliers)
Oct 01, 2008 ... ARCADIS named Daniel T. Maxey as Senior Structural ...
Balfour Beatty Rail.(Suppliers)(appointments)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Balfour Beatty Rail has named the following staff members to positions at its Jacksonville, Fla.-based Services Division: David Sprinkle named director of business development; Mark Meyer, ...
Macquarie Rail, Inc.(Suppliers)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Macquarie Rail, Inc. named Mark ...
Parsons Brinckerhoff.(Suppliers)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Parsons Brinckerhoff named Peter Allibone a senior engineering manager in the Newark, N.J., ...
Safetran Systems Corp.(Suppliers)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Safetran Systems Corp. appointed David Zahorsky ...
Southwest Signal Engineering.(Suppliers)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Southwest Signal Engineering appointed ...
Union Switch & Signal.(Suppliers)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Union Switch & Signal promoted Jack Wilson to ...
Obituaries.(Obituary)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Jim Larson, retired AmtrakVice President-Operations, died at his home in Alexandria, Va., Sept. 3. Rodney Yourist, long time applications engineer for Western-Cullen. ...
"Clean Cab" locomotive radio.(products)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Ritron, Inc., a U.S. wireless design, engineering, and manufacturing company, has received an AAR rating as per AAR S-5702 section 3.2.4 for shock and vibration for its new RCCR ("Clean Cab") Locomotive Radio. The RCCR is available in one-piece and two-piece remote head (pictured) models ....
These brake beams last 10 times longer.(products)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Miner Enterprises, Inc.'s New Series 2008 Brake Beam has been proven to increase service life and decrease maintenance costs. The New Series 2008 Brake Beam builds upon Miner's proven bushed design by further preventing strut wear.This enhancement is proven to last 10 times longer than ...
Wastewater treatment.(products)
Oct 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Water Maze's CLPB industrial waste-water treatment system integrates mechanical filtration and bioremediation, with no need for chlorine to sanitize the waste stream. The two ...
Prelude to Staggers.(Letter to the editor)
Oct 01, 2008; ... To the Editor, Your "From the Editor" column in the September 2008 issue (p. 4) is most interesting and thought provoking. However, Congressman Jim Florio did not craft the legislation that led to the Staggers Act in 1980. The FRA published its report, "A Prospectus for Change ...
Crashworthiness emphasis crippling.(Letter to the editor)
Oct 01, 2008; ... To the editor: The Federal Railroad Administration's recent decision to set the standard of 300,000 pounds buff load for passenger equipment, almost double the present standard, will do little to make trains safer and more efficient. FRA's mindset is fixated on overbuilt trains, ...
Website directory.(Directory)(Website overview)
Oct 01, 2008 ... BEARINGS Brenco www.brencoqbs.com The Timken Company www.timken.com CAR HOISTS Macton Corp. www.macton.com Railquip, Inc. www.railquip.com CAR MOVERS Central ...
Wind turbines offer a breath of fresh air.(short line/regional perspective)
Oct 01, 2008; ... Wind power is quickly becoming the new "golden boy" in the drive to develop renewable energy, and short line railroads are playing an increasingly important role moving the required large and very specialized equipment. Wind power is not going to replace fossil fuels anytime ...
Welcome to the 2009 railroad financial desk book.
Oct 01, 2008; ... Each year, we put on our very thick, far-sighted glasses to try to uncover what is likely to happen to the rail equipment and rail finance industries in the coming year. This year we are going to need extra-thick glasses due to the economic bog through which the entire world is slogging ....
The railcar leasing landscape.(Column)
Oct 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The turmoil that has engulfed several of the railcar lessors, and which threatens to engulf others, seems to be a good place to start our predictions on railcar operating leasing for 2009. As I write this in mid-September, and drawing only on public ...
Locomotive repowers: investing in the future.
Oct 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Most of our readers will remember the political campaign some years ago that spawned the phrase: "It's the economy, stupid!" This year, if you were trying to figure out what the driving concern behind locomotive ownership and operation, other than having ...
Credit capacity: finding the funds to acquire equipment.(Column)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Because we don't have unlimited space to devote to all the possible rail equipment and rail subjects, we generally don't dwell on a particular subject in more than one issue. Recently, our Financial Edge column examined the question of whether or not there was a "credit crunch" in the rail ...
Railroad financial Desk Book 2009 directory: firms included in these profiles have advertisements elsewhere in this publication or have purchased space in this section.(Directory)
Oct 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] FINANCE COMPANIES CIT Rail 30 South Wacker Drive, Suite 3000, Chicago, IL 60606; 312-906-5700. CIT Rail provides financial solutions to the bulk freight transportation marketplace by closely working with freight shippers, receivers, ...