May 20, 2014 | Headlines, Technology
(Source: Bloomberg, May 19, 2014) NEW YORK — The railroad industry took a step toward resolving a dispute with American Indian tribes that has stalled Positive Train Control, the biggest rail-safety project in U.S. history. The $13.2 billion build-out of networks of...
May 16, 2014 | Headlines, Technology, UP
(Source: Fortune magazine, May 16, 2014) OMAHA, Neb. — In an old-guard industry with over 150 years of history, railroad companies like Union Pacific Corporation are embracing technology to promote fuel efficiency in the 21st century. The aim: to lower costs and cut...
May 14, 2014 | Headlines, Technology
(Source: Railway Age, May 14, 2014) NEW YORK — The pressing issue for the railroad industry’s communications and signal engineers is whether or not Positive Train Control (PTC) is going to be complete and fully functional by the fast-approaching Dec. 31, 2015,...
May 5, 2014 | Headlines, Technology, UP
(Source: Bloomberg, May 5, 2014) OMAHA, Neb. — Union Pacific Corp., the railroad created with a stroke of Abraham Lincoln’s pen, is now tinkering with the next wave of transportation technology: drones. Equipped with a camera, the shoe-box-sized aircraft would...
April 17, 2014 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines, Technology
(Source: Associated Press, April 17, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Only one-fifth of its track will be equipped with mandatory safety technology to prevent the most catastrophic kinds of collisions and derailments by the deadline set by Congress, the freight railroad...
April 15, 2014 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, Technology
(Source: Boston Globe, April 15, 2014) BOSTON — A Woburn software firm has raised $40 million to expand its technology that enables travelers to book train tickets the same way for every rail line, as can already be done for air travel. The company, SilverRail...
April 15, 2014 | Headlines, Technology
(Source: U.S. News & World Report, April 15, 2014) NEW YORK — Liquefied natural gas, or LNG, may soon replace diesel in most of the country’s freight locomotives, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said Monday. Full story:...
April 2, 2014 | Headlines, Technology
(Source: Forbes, March 27, 2014) NEW YORK — Think hybrids that go 60 miles on a gallon are efficient? Trains can go eight times as far with 2,000 pounds in their backseat. And they’re only getting smarter. Trains are no longer the lumbering hunks of metal of the...
March 7, 2014 | Headlines, Technology
(Source: Los Angeles Times, March 6, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The railroad industry pressed lawmakers Thursday to extend a deadline for installing safety measures that were proposed after a 2008 collision involving a Los Angeles commuter train killed 25 people...
March 4, 2014 | Headlines, Technology
(Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 1, 2014) PITTSBURGH, Pa. — Wabtec’s roots in the rail industry date to Westinghouse Air Brake Co. in 1869 and founder George Westinghouse’s own experience in a train collision in upstate New York. Over the...
