Rail & Intermodal

Delivery Companies Brace for the Pre-Christmas Crush

December 20, 2017

The Wall Street Journal

Package-delivery companies are bracing for their busiest week of the holiday season, and one with less room for error.

Improving Infrastructure in the Midwest: A Delicate Balancing Act

December 7, 2017

Mary Lamie, Executive Director, St. Louis Regional Freightway

Trump Wants More Big Infrastructure Projects. The Obstacles Can Be Big, Too.

November 29, 2017

The New York Times

President Trump says he is frustrated with the slow pace of major construction projects like highways, ports and pipelines. Last summer, he pledged to use the power of the presidency to jump start building when it became bogged down in administrative delays.

Intermodal Rail Investment Prepares Port for Higher Cargo Volumes

October 17, 2017

Challenge: Next generation ships carry more cargo than ever before. How can a port increase throughput in an environmentally sustainable manner while ensuring speed to market at destinations around the country?

Trains in Vain: Epic CSX Traffic Jam Snarls Deliveries, From Coal to Fries

August 30, 2017

The Wall Street Journal

The freight-train ride from Chicago to Colesburg, Tenn., usually takes a few days. Earlier this month, though, the ride was 18 days, 13 hours and 57 minutes, logs show.

China Says It Built a Railway in Africa Out of Altruism, But It's More Strategic Than That

August 14, 2017

Los Angeles Times

Africa's past is the mildewed train station in central Addis Ababa, where locomotives sit gutted and rusted tracks vanish in the grass. The line was once the greatest in Africa; built by France in the 1910s, it ran more than 450 miles northeast to neighboring Djibouti, where the desert meets the sea.

Hyperloop One Sets New Speed Record

August 7, 2017

Fortune

Hyperloop One completed the second phase of testing its ultrafast transportation system - propelling an aerodynamic pod down a low-pressure tube at record speed and distance, the company announced last week.

CSX Warns of 'Bumps in the Road' As It Tightens Rail Schedules

July 25, 2017

The Wall Street Journal

CSX Corp. is telling some shippers to brace for growing pains, including additional days of transit times, as the railway implements Chief Executive Hunter Harrison's plan to tighten schedules.

Hyperloop Startup Moves Closer to Near-Supersonic Rail

July 18, 2017

Industryweek

Startup Hyperloop One announced last week the first successful full-systems test of its near-supersonic rail transit system.

Study: 'Buy America' Imposes Costly Burdens on Metro and Other Transit Agencies

July 17, 2017

The Washington Post

Transit agencies across the country are shouldering higher infrastructure costs that strain budgets and make the systems more expensive overall than their overseas counterparts - and "Buy America" is a likely driver of those expenses, a right-leaning think tank says.

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