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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 [...]