Julie Sneider

2 weeks ago | progressiverailroading.com | Julie Sneider

By Julie Sneider, Senior Editor  About a year ago, the National Industrial Transportation League (NITL) board recognized the trade association was losing some longtime members to retirement. Those NITL colleagues included business leaders who served on the association’s board and others who shared with each other their decades of experience in the transportation, shipping, logistics and the supply chain industries.

3 weeks ago | progressiverailroading.com | Julie Sneider

By Julie Sneider, Senior Editor  The Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works (EPW) met April 1 with U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to begin the groundwork for what will become surface transportation reauthorization legislation that will succeed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIHJA), which will expire in 2026.

4 weeks ago | progressiverailroading.com | Julie Sneider

By Julie Sneider, Senior Editor  Hurricane Helene, a Category 4, made landfall Sept. 26, 2024, in the Big Bend region of Florida, reaching wind speeds of 140 mph. It moved north through Georgia and reached into eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina early on Sept. 27, bringing historic rain that spurred flash-flooding and landslides that wiped out entire downtowns and neighborhoods.

1 month ago | progressiverailroading.com | Julie Sneider

def By Julie Sneider, Senior Editor  A proposed $120 million railroad improvement project in Lincoln, Nebraska, is set to transform the flow of freight through the city as well as improve safety for motorists, pedestrians, bicyclists and rail employees in a high-traffic area.

2 months ago | progressiverailroading.com | Julie Sneider

By Julie Sneider, Senior Editor  In yet another sign that rail safety will be a bipartisan issue in the 119th Congress, four House representatives on Feb. 3 rolled out a newer version of the Railway Safety Act, building off a similar proposal introduced in March 2023 but not passed in the aftermath of the derailment of a Norfolk Southern Railway train in East Palestine, Ohio. The congressmen — U.S. Reps.