1/27/2017
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The storage dome can hold 60,000 metric tons of sugar.Photo – American Crystal Sugar Co. By
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Parks Canada and Canadian Pacific Railway have completed their Canada-CP Grizzly Bear Research Initiative and will now institute measures aimed at reducing railway related risks to grizzly bears.
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Union Pacific achieved its best annual employee-safety rate in 2016, improving on the record set in 2015 and making 2016 the safest year in the Class 1's 154-year history.
The company's employee reportable injury rate, measure by injuries for every 200,000 employee hours worked, declined 14 percent from 0.87 in 2015 to 0.75 in 2016. In 2015, the employee reportable injury rate improved 11 percent from 2014.
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The Foothill Gold Line light-rail extension from Glendora to Montclair will begin construction in October 2017 and take two years longer to complete according to a new schedule.
The Foothill Gold Line Construction Authority (construction authority) Board of Directors approved an updated workplan and schedule for the 12.3-mile extension at its January 25 meeting. The updated schedule is based on detailed constructability reviews completed late last year on the project's draft advanced conceptual engineering (ACE) documents.
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BNSF announced six new rail-servedPhoto – bsnf.com
BNSF announced six new rail-servedPhoto – bsnf.com
BNSF Railway Co. yesterday announced six new "certified sites" that are optimal for customer development along the Class I's network.
The new sites are at AgriTech Park in Great Falls, Mont.; Ameripointe Logistics Park in Ardmore, Okla.; Central New Mexico Rail Park in Los Lunas, N.M.; Commerce Center of Southeast Iowa in Middletown, Iowa; Gallup Energy Logistics Park in Gallup, N.M.; and John W. Kelsey Business and Technology Park in Greenville, Ill.
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Rail News Home BNSF Railway January 2017 Rail News: BNSF Railway
The storage dome can hold 60,000 metric tons of sugar.Photo – American Crystal Sugar Co. ByThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , Associate EditorUnited Sugars Corp. and American Crystal Sugar Co. in November 2016 unveiled a $44 million bulk sugar storage and transfer facility on BNSF Railway Co.'s network in Montgomery, Ill. Located 45 miles west of Chicago, the facility is in an ideal spot for reaching United Sugars' large customer base in the Chicagoland and Great Lakes areas, said BNSF Director of Ethanol and Bulk Foods Keeley Motley at the Midwest Association of Rail Shippers (MARS) winter conference earlier this month.In addition, the site is well situated for sugar shipments arriving from the Red River Valley at the Minnesota-North Dakota border."If you're loading the rail cars in Minnesota and North Dakota, you're already west of Chicago, … so you're not having to go further than necessary," Motley told attendees at the conference, which ran Jan. 11-12 in Oak Brook, Ill. The 20-acre site includes a 26,000-square-foot storage dome, which can hold 60,000 metric tons of sugar. The shipper expects to move almost twice as much sugar to customers each year.BNSF officials anticipate that the facility will lead to a 10 percent reduction in the cycle time for shipping sugar, Motley said.BNSF trains operate the long-haul leg of the journey, while Burlington Junction Railway provides direct service into the facility.Photo – American Crystal Sugar Co.
The storage dome can hold 60,000 metric tons of sugar.Photo – American Crystal Sugar Co. By
Before the storage dome was built, the railroad shipped sugar directly to Chicago-area receivers that didn't always have storage space for the product. That meant rail car cars could sit idle waiting to be unloaded.
"Any time that the rail car is sitting at the receiver means that's time it's not back at the plant getting ready for its next load," Motley said.
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Rail News Home BNSF Railway January 2017 Rail News: BNSF Railway
The storage dome can hold 60,000 metric tons of sugar.Photo – American Crystal Sugar Co. ByThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , Associate EditorUnited Sugars Corp. and American Crystal Sugar Co. in November 2016 unveiled a $44 million bulk sugar storage and transfer facility on BNSF Railway Co.'s network in Montgomery, Ill. Located 45 miles west of Chicago, the facility is in an ideal spot for reaching United Sugars' large customer base in the Chicagoland and Great Lakes areas, said BNSF Director of Ethanol and Bulk Foods Keeley Motley at the Midwest Association of Rail Shippers (MARS) winter conference earlier this month.In addition, the site is well situated for sugar shipments arriving from the Red River Valley at the Minnesota-North Dakota border."If you're loading the rail cars in Minnesota and North Dakota, you're already west of Chicago, … so you're not having to go further than necessary," Motley told attendees at the conference, which ran Jan. 11-12 in Oak Brook, Ill. The 20-acre site includes a 26,000-square-foot storage dome, which can hold 60,000 metric tons of sugar. The shipper expects to move almost twice as much sugar to customers each year.BNSF officials anticipate that the facility will lead to a 10 percent reduction in the cycle time for shipping sugar, Motley said.BNSF trains operate the long-haul leg of the journey, while Burlington Junction Railway provides direct service into the facility.Photo – American Crystal Sugar Co.
The storage dome can hold 60,000 metric tons of sugar.Photo – American Crystal Sugar Co. By
Before the storage dome was built, the railroad shipped sugar directly to Chicago-area receivers that didn't always have storage space for the product. That meant rail car cars could sit idle waiting to be unloaded.
"Any time that the rail car is sitting at the receiver means that's time it's not back at the plant getting ready for its next load," Motley said.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
AAR President and CEO Statement on Appointment of Ann Begeman as
Acting Chairman of Surface Transportation Board
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Jan. 25, 2017 – Edward R. Hamberger, president and CEO of the Association of American Railroads (AAR), issued the following statement on today's appointment of Ann Begeman as Acting Chair of the U.S. Surface Transportation Board:
"The freight rail industry congratulates Ann Begeman on being named Acting Chair of the STB and is confident in Ms. Begeman's ability to lead the Board. We hope Acting Chairman Begeman will continue to heed our request to pause all major rulemaking – most notably its misguided forced access proposal – until the Board is equipped with five, full time Board members."
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NioCorp Developments Ltd. is removing plans for a 4.3-mile rail spur and supporting infrastructure that would have been constructed as part of its planned Elk Creek Superalloy Project.
The project, located in Elk Creek, Neb., originally called for delivery of 7,000 metric tons per week of reagents needed for separation and purification of the three superalloy metals that NioCorp plans to produce. However, the company explained that recent metallurgical process advancements will allow many of those reagents to be recycled from material that was previously planned for disposal.
Jan
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TranSystems Corp. has appointed David Maas, PE, as the new senior vice president of its freight rail and intermodal sector.
Jan
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The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) Fiscal and Management Control Board (FMCB) has approved a construction contract for McCourt Construction Company to build its new Blue Hill Avenue commuter rail station.
Jan
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Rail supplier news from GE, Aspen Technology, Brookville, HNTB, TranSystems and Bombardier (Jan. 25)
1/25/2017
Rail News: Supplier Spotlight