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1 week ago | 
railjournal.com | William C. Vantuono
WASHINGTON Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) has restored operator-assisted ATO to its entire 208km six-line metro network 16 years after it was suspended following a fatal rear-end collision on the Red Line. Systemwide ATO comes six months after the Red Line returned to ATO on December 15 2024. WMATA switched to ATO on the Blue, Orange and Silver lines on June 15 and the Yellow and Green Lines followed on May 23.
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1 week ago | 
railwayage.com | William C. Vantuono
Anacostia Rail Holdings President and CEO Peter Gilbertson testified June 18 on behalf of ASLRRA (American Short Line and Regional Rail Association) at the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Surface Transportation, Freight, Pipelines and Safety “On the Right Track: Modernizing America’s Rail Network” hearing, detailing the role short line railroads play in the interconnected freight rail network.
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1 week ago | 
railwayage.com | William C. Vantuono
U.S. rail traffic for the week ending June 14, 2025 dipped slightly compared to the prior-year period but realized a modest gain through 2025’s first 24 weeks, the Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported June 18. Total U.S. weekly rail traffic was 485,810 carloads and intermodal units, down 1.5% compared with the same week last year.
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1 week ago | 
railwayage.com | William C. Vantuono
Freedom Intermodal Tank Services, which is served by Class III New Orleans Public Belt Railroad (NOPB), has added railcar cleaning services and expanded transloading capacity and railcar storage and created 40 new jobs, “bringing new levels of efficiency and reliability to the bulk liquid supply chain.” .
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1 week ago | 
railwayage.com | William C. Vantuono
Alstom and global sustainable stainless steel manufacturer Outokumpuhave entered a partnership for supply of Circle Green® stainless steel with up to a 93% lower carbon footprint compared to the 2024 global industry averageof 7 kg CO₂e (carbon dioxide equivalent) per kg—0.5 kilos of CO₂e per kg of stainless steel.
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1 week ago | 
railwayage.com | William C. Vantuono
MTA Metro-North Railroad has added a seventh GE P32AC-DM (dual-mode) locomotive to its Heritage Series fleet, all of which are “a celebration of Metro-North’s rich history,” according to President Justin Vonashek. No. 203, “like everything we do at Metro-North, is a testament to the hard work of our employees and the progress we’ve made over the past 40 years.” No. 203 sports a paint scheme replicating one the MTA applied in 1979 on seven Conrail dual-mode EMD FL9 diesel-electric locomotives.
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1 week ago | 
railwayage.com | William C. Vantuono
Sixteen years after ATO (automatic train operation) was suspended on the Washington Metro following a fatal rear-end collision on the Red Line, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) has restored operator-assisted ATO to the entire system. Metrorail, one of the first modern rapid transit systems in the U.S. when it opened in 1976, is now “operating as designed.”Systemwide ATO comes six months after the Red Line returned to ATO on Dec. 15, 2024 2024.
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1 week ago | 
railwayage.com | William C. Vantuono
Progress Rail, a Division of Caterpillar, in September 2023 filed a lawsuit against Wabtec (Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies) in U.S. federal court in Delaware accusing the latter of abusing its market power for diesel-electric main line locomotives, equipment and services. The court has dismissed the suit’a antitrust portion.
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2 weeks ago | 
railwayage.com | William C. Vantuono
Norfolk Southern has unveiled its newest heritage locomotive, EMD SD70ACe No. 1080, honoring the Delaware & Hudson (D&H) Railway. This marks the second heritage unit NS has introduced in the past two years, following Tennessee, Alabama & Georgia Railway 4851 , a Wabtec AC44C6M. No. 1080 now joins a fleet of 22 heritage units, “each a moving tribute to the railroads that built NS,” the company said.
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2 weeks ago | 
railwayage.com | William C. Vantuono
The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) has entered into an agreement with Sensonic Inc. to advance a pilot program that would automatically detect intrusions on rail right-of-way. CTA’s Innovation Studio will test Sensonic’s Distributed Acoustic Sensing technology, a fiber optic vibration sensing device that monitors for large objects on the tracks.
