Latest Rail Industry News
Eric M. Hocky, a partner with Thorp Reed & Armstrong, LLP, is the new president of the Association of Transportation Law Professionals (ATLP).
The Obama Administration has once again turned to rail labor when picking the head of a key railroad governing agency.
Positive train control received strong support last week from two key senators who chair important transportation committees.
Car builders delivered some 7,000 railcars in the first quarter of this year and are likely on pace to deliver 5,000 or less in each of the remaining three quarters.
Kansas City Southern has received the first two of 27 locomotives it is having repowered by Electro-Motive Diesel this year.
Union Pacific Railroad was the lone railroad named by General Motors as one of its suppliers of the year.
Thomas R. Jones is retiring after 40 years of service with Atlantic Track & Turnout Co. and almost 50 years in the railroad industry. He will stay on with the company in a limited capacity through the end of this year.
Scott Carroll has joined Mitsui Rail Capital, LLC (MRC) as a director of sales and marketing.
Railpower Technologies Corp. and its U.S. subsidiary, Railpower Hybrid Technologies, are now part of the R.J. Corman Railroad Group corporate family.