January 22, 2020 | Headlines, KCS, Technology
(Source: Freight Waves, January 22, 2020) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Stakeholders participating in today’s global supply chain must grapple with three big themes: the growing impact of e-commerce, evolving global trade stances, and the rise of automation and other advanced...
January 16, 2020 | 2-man Crews, Headlines, Technology
(Source: Freight Waves, January 15, 2020) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — U.S. freight railroads will benefit from incorporating advanced technology to improve safety and optimize operations, but how can other stakeholders, such as shippers and labor, take advantage of the rail...
November 22, 2019 | Headlines, KCS, Technology
(Source: Railway Age, November 21, 2019) NEW YORK — Kansas City Southern has completed the global deployment and rollout of a cloud-based operational testing system from Bellevue, Washington-based CloudMoyo (CM), a developer of artificial intelligence (AI)...
October 31, 2019 | FRA, Headlines, Technology
(Source: Railway Age, October 30, 2019) NEW YORK — The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) recently published a Notice of Grant Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for a shade over $24 million for the Magnetic Levitation Technology Deployment Program (Maglev Grants Program)....
October 23, 2019 | CSX, Headlines, Technology
(Source: Railway Age, October 22, 2019) NEW YORK — CSX is taking a bold transparency move. In releasing its Trip Plan Compliance performance information, it is also at the early stages of disclosing how poor logistics delivery to customers has been in the past. But,...
October 22, 2019 | Headlines, Technology
(Source: Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division press release, October 18, 2019) SOUTHFIELD, Mich. — A federal appeals court has ruled against the BMWED in our attempt to require BNSF to perform full visual human-conducted track inspections at the bare...
September 25, 2019 | Headlines, Technology
(Source: Freight Waves, September 24, 2019) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — The link between wind power and rail shipping is difficult to identify. Yet one company in Adelaide, Australia, developed a technology for wind turbines that applies to train cars too. Full story:...
September 19, 2019 | Headlines, Operation Lifesaver, Technology
(Source: Forbes, September 19, 2019) NEW YORK — Since human drivers seem to be lacking in vigilance when crossing over railroad tracks, maybe we can solve the problem via the advent of self-driving cars. This brings up an interesting question: Will AI-driven...
August 20, 2019 | Headlines, High Speed Rail, Technology
(Source: CNET, August 17, 2019) NEW YORK — Maglev sounds as sci-fi as teleporters and hovercars. A train that levitates above a track using electromagnets and cruises at aircraft speeds? That couldn’t possibly be a reality. Except it is. China has one that...
August 20, 2019 | BNSF, Headlines, Technology
(Source: Railway Age, August 19, 2019) NEW YORK — In a wide-ranging interview with Railway Age in December 2018, BNSF’s then-Executive Chairman Matt Rose had this to say about the future of locomotive propulsion technology: “We’ve got to look at alternative fuels for...
