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Track is only as good as the ballast holding it in place. Ballast serves many purposes, the most important of which is drainage. There are high-production machines and attachments (ballast [...]

There are numerous ways to resurface a highway/rail grade crossing: Concrete. Rubber. Composite. Timber. Users rely on tough yet resilient surfaces to perform under heavy rail and road traffic. Railway [...]

Critical components like couplers, draft gears and end-of-car cushioning units must be capable of managing thousands of tons o force. In-train forces--buff and draft-can literally make or break safe train [...]

Any experienced railroad civil engineer will tell you that track is only as good as the ballast holding it in place. Ballast serves many purposes, the most important of which [...]

When railroads, either in-house or through supplier-provided contracted services, perform remote train health monitoring, potential equipment problems on freight cars or locomotives can be identified and reported back to a [...]

After Chicago, the Kansas City region is the second-busiest railroad hub in the U.S. BNSF Railway's 780-acre Argentine Yard in Kansas City is the largest classification yard on the Class [...]

After nearly three months and 57 entries later, Railway Age editors, along with judges Nick Little, Managing Director of Michigan State University's Railway Management Program and Ronald L. Batory, President [...]

On Dec. 4, 2015, President Barack Obama signed the Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act, a five-year federal transportation bill, into law. The FAST Act authorizes $305 billion in funding [...]

As a result of the passage of Pennsylvania Act 89 (House Bill 1060) in November 2013--Pennsylvania's most comprehensive piece of state transportation legislation in decades, providing capital funds to advance [...]

CALIFORNIA HSR The California High-Speed Rail Authority issued a request for qualifications for its upcoming Rail Delivery Partner (RDP) procurement. In January, CHSRA broke ground on the nation's first high-speed [...]

There are two things that make San Diego, Calif., among the most pleasant places to live in the U.S. One is the climate. The other is the San Diego Metropolitan [...]

Classification yards tend to be the bottleneck on a railroad. Breaking up inbound trains, sorting cars and building new outbound consists can be a time-and labor-intensive process, especially when car [...]

When it opened on March 27, 1976 to great fanfare, the Washington Metro was one of the most advanced, beautifully planned and designed passenger rail systems in the world. Today, [...]

This past June marked one year since public transportation operator Metro Transit, which covers the Twin Cities area, opened its $957 million, 1 1-mile Central Corridor LRT, the Green Line, [...]

Despite the historically brutal winter that hit New England in 2014 causing delays and cancellations throughout the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) system, MBTA ridership hit a record high, with [...]

Now that its FrontLines 2015 program, a group of five Utah Transit Authority rail projects that added 70 miles to the existing 64-mile rail network, has been completed $300 million [...]

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Project news from Dodge Data & Analytics [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

University project finance arm remains a relevant and revered industry partner as it pushes to meet the system's 21st century challenges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One-third of the projects that began constructed in 2014 are in the residential sector, breaking ground in New York City and Jersey City. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Rich data from Dodge Data & Analytics [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the architectural design of NYC (New York City) Parks Beach Restoration Modules, designed by Garrison Architects.

The article focuses on restoration and redevelopment of Pier A in New York City by H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture, which include restoration of the exterior, installation of concrete slabs, and structural repairs.

For the last 40 years, Andrew Herrmann has created a legacy of keeping critical infrastructure issues in the public eye. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ENR New York's 20 Under 40 of 2014 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article offers information on reactions by several New York based government agencies, on idea of ban of hydraulic fracking proposed by New York's governor, Andrew Cuomo. Topics discussed include review on Cuomo's idea by New York Department of Health, research on high-volume fracking by New York Department of Environmental Conservation and views of Wenonah Hauter, executive director of Food & Water Watch organization, against the proposal.

The article discusses the architectural design of the residential tower under construction in Manhattan, New York, designed by Goldstein Hill & West Architects LLC.

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The article reports that the growth in the power and higher education sectors is helping electrical contractor O'Connell Electric Co. to expand its business in New York. Topics include the growth in the regional revenue of the company in 2013, its involvement in projects that include the new School of Law building at Syracuse University and the University of Buffalo Science Center, and views of its chief executive officer (CEO) Victor E. Salerno regarding acquisition of a contractor in Albany.

The article focuses on the long-term resiliency projects being planned and funded in New York and New Jersey following Superstorm Sandy. Topics covered include the submission by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) of applications under a resiliency program, the development of solutions to prevent flooding at entry points in vulnerable areas and the proposed defense strategy of New York City Transit that features water exclusion and asset protection.

The article announces appointments in the New York construction sector including Paula Benway as vice president at the Institute of Transportation Engineers, Michael Petrisko as chief information officer at Hill International Inc. and Robert Keimig as sales vice president at the Lighting Quotient.