March 15, 2013 | Headlines, Technology
(Source: Progressive Railroading, March 15, 2013) There’s still a lot of work that needs to be accomplished by U.S. Class Is to implement positive train control (PTC) systems by the federally mandated deadline of Dec. 31, 2015. And there’s one thing...
February 6, 2013 | Headlines, Technology
(Source: Teamster Nation, February 5, 2013) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Minneapolis Teamsters negotiated a 7.5 percent pay hike and saved 135 jobs at Honeywell International after a difficult round of bargaining. On February 2, our brothers and sisters at Honeywell voted on a...
February 4, 2013 | Headlines, Technology
(Source: Popular Science magazine, February 2013 issue, January 17, 2013) Although the railroad keeps our 21st-century economy running, it’s essentially a 19th-century technology. Rail operators have known for decades that technological fixes could prevent rail...
February 4, 2013 | Headlines, Technology
(Source: GoErie.com, February 2, 2013) ERIE, Pa. — GE Transportation’s reach continues to grow. The company has been doing business for years with the former Soviet state of Kazakhstan, including a joint venture announced in December to produce up to 400 diesel...
January 24, 2013 | Headlines, Technology
(Source: Houston Chronicle, January 23, 2013) HOUSTON, Texas — U.S. railroads are looking at natural gas to meet a 2015 deadline for lowering emissions, but it’s unlikely that more than a handful of locomotives will be using the fuel by then. Full story: Fuel...
January 17, 2013 | Headlines, Technology
(Source: Fort Worth Star-Telegram, January 16, 2013) FORT WORTH, Texas — Production is under way on the first railroad locomotive to be assembled at the new General Electric facility in far north Fort Worth, plant manager Walter Amaya said Wednesday. Full story: Fort...
January 9, 2013 | Headlines, NS, Technology
(Source: Energy Harvesting Journal, January 9, 2013) Norfolk Southern Railway No. 999 is the first all-electric, battery-powered locomotive in the United States. But when one of the thousand lead-acid batteries that power it dies, the locomotive shuts down. To combat...
January 7, 2013 | Headlines, Technology
(Source: USA Today, January 4, 2012) BIG LAKE, Minn. — New safety technology being installed along some rail lines across the nation aims to prevent deadly train crashes caused by human error. The technology is designed to stop or slow a train automatically to prevent...
October 25, 2012 | Headlines, High Speed Rail, Technology
(Source: Cogeneration & On-Site Power Production, October 19, 2012) A current effort using digital technology and new engineering aims to use carbon-neutral bio-coal being developed by the University of Minnesota-Duluth’s Natural Resources Research Institute...
August 28, 2012 | Headlines, Technology, UP
(Source: Union Pacific press release, August 22, 2012) ROSEVILLE, Calif. — Union Pacific Railroad today unveiled an advanced experimental locomotive at its J.R. Davis Yard in Roseville that will test three emissions-reducing technologies including exhaust gas...
