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2 weeks ago |
rtands.com | David C. Lester
KANSAS CITY, Mo. –– The 30th Annual Wheel Rail Interaction Conference is set to kick off tomorrow, Tuesday, June 10 and runs through Thursday, June 12.
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3 weeks ago |
rtands.com | David C. Lester
ATLANTA - From the June 2025 issue of Railway Track & Structures, Editor-in-Chief David C. Lester writes about transcontinental mergers in the monthly column, "From the Dome." Over the past several months, there has been buzz in the railroad industry about the “final set” of Class I railroad mergers to create, essentially, two transcontinental systems that would offer single-line service to many places.
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3 weeks ago |
rtands.com | David C. Lester |Jennifer McLawhorn
ATLANTA - The annual Top Projects awards for 2025 have been selected and featured in the June 2025 issue of Railway Track & Structures. We opened our look at Top Projects in 2024 with these words: “One of the top rewards of working on Railway Track & Structures is exposure to the myriad of railroad infrastructure projects going on at any one time.
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3 weeks ago |
rtands.com | David C. Lester
WASHINGTON, D.C. –– The Trump Administration budget request for FY 2026 cuts funding for the NEC and increases funding for the national network. The Trump Administration’s FY 2026 Budget was posted on Friday, May 30. Amtrak came away with a mixed bag in the budget. First, the FY 2026 Northeast Corridor (NEC) budget was cut by 25%, from the 2025 amount of $1.14 billion to $850 million.
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1 month ago |
rtands.com | David C. Lester
There is much to say about the quality of this event, as well as that of the people who plan and execute each year’s gathering. Moreover, the relevance of the research presented at the conference is strong and engineers can often take what they’ve learned at the conference and apply it to their own railroad.
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