Rail Group On Air

American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers Senior Director, Petrochemicals,. Transportation and Infrastructure Rob Benedict talks with Railway Age Editor-in-Chief William C. Vantuono about safety, regulatory and legislative matters involving AFPM member companies and the North American freight rail industry.

Railway Track & Structures magazine Editor-in-Chief Bill Wilson and Railway Age Editor-in-Chief William C. Vantuono discuss the economic impact of the pandemic and what impact it will make on the rail industry moving forward.

As the rail industry’s centralized provider of interoperable rail data, Railinc, a subsidiary of the Association of American Railroads, was purpose-built to tackle big challenges with the power of data. Railinc manages 11 million daily messages among more than 570 rail carriers. Railway Age reached out to talk to Railinc chief executive Allen West to get a sense of how the North Carolina company i...

Railway Track & Structures magazine Editor-in-Chief talks to Jerry Pfuntner of Finley Engineering Group about the design and construction of the Tawatina Bridge.

Railway Supply Institute President Mike O’Malley and Vice President Government and Public Affairs Nicole Brewin cover a wide range of topics with Railway Age Editor-in-Chief William C. Vantuono. Among them: The state of the rail supply industry during COVID-19, Committee on Tank Cars position on railcars for crude oil storage, the freight car market, FAST Act reauthorization, Section 130 Grade Cro...

Canadian Pacific President and CEO Keith Creel, Executive Vice President Operations Mark Redd and Executive Vice President Marketing John Brooks talk with Railway Age Editor-in-Chief William C. Vantuono about business growth, capital investment and today’s challenging operating environment. Sponsored by The Greenbrier Companies.

Highlights from Amtrak’s April 23, 2020 press conference with new President and CEO Bill Flynn, Board Chair Tony Coscia and Senior Executive Vice President Stephen Gardner. The three answer questions about Amtrak’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the company’s future as it deals with a 95% ridership decline and mounting operating losses. How much will the government’s $1.02 billion CARES Act...

RT&S Editor-in-Chief Bill Wilson talks with Mark Taylor, Superintendent of Operations at White Pass and Yukon Route Railroad about the White Pass Loop project. The White Pass Loop Project was a 2020 RT&S Top Project.

Norfolk Southern Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer John Scheib discusses the railroad’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and its “can-do” culture that’s keeping the trains moving and employees safe. Podcast sponsored by TrinityRail®.

Railway Age Capitol Hill Contributing Editor Frank N. Wilner discusses the current state of rail labor national bargaining with Editor-in-Chief William C. Vantuono.

RT&S Editor-in-Chief Bill Wilson and Railway Age Editor-in-Chief William C. Vantuono recap the latest updates dealing with COVID-19 and the rail industry.

Strategic Rail Finance Chairman and CEO Michael Sussman and President John Elliott discuss how railroads can leverage P3 (public-private partnership) resources to grow business with Railway Age Editor-in-Chief William C. Vantuono.

Rail Group On Air's William C. Vantuono and Bill Wilson talk to the American Public Transportation Association on the ins and outs of federal stimulus money for transit agencies and how many of them are dealing with COVID-19 on the front lines.

RT&S Editor-in-Chief Bill Wilson talks to Alicia Trost at the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) on how the agency is dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic.

In this edition of the Rail Group on Air Special Podcast Series: The Coronavirus and the Rail Industry, Kansas City Southern President and CEO Pat Ottensmeyer and Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Jeff Songer describe how KCS’s dedicated work force is responding to the crisis, and the steps the railroad is taking to protect them as they endeavor to keep freight traffic moving. S...

In this special COVID-19 edition of Rail Group On Air, Railway Age Editor-in-Chief William C. Vantuono talks with Eric Starks and Todd Tranausky of FTR Transportation Intelligence and David Nahass of Railroad Financial Corporation about how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting the freight railroad industry and the rail equipment market. You’ll find the discussion a realistic, insightful appraisal...

International Railway Journal Editor-in-Chief Kevin Smith talks with the International Union of Railways on how they are handling COVID-19 in Europe.

Railway Age Editor-in-Chief William Vantuono and Railway Track & Structures Editor-in-Chief Bill Wilson provide analysis of CARES, the federal stimulus bill, the financial crisis of the transit industry, and more.

RT&S Editor-in-Chief talks with Valley Transportation Authority's Brandi Childress on how the agency responded to a positive COVID-19 case with one of its train operators.

Railway Track & Structures magazine's Editor-in-Chief Bill Wilson talks with Sound Transit's John Gallagher on how the coronavirus is impacting his transit agency.

Listen to Railway Age Editor-in-Chief William C. Vantuono’s March 2020 interview with Union Pacific Chief Operating Officer Jim Vena on Unified Plan 2020, UP’s version of PSR, Precision Scheduled Railroading, and how it’s changing and improving the way UP serves its customers. Vena spent 40 years at CN before retiring in June 2016 as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. In January...

RT&S Editor-in-Chief Bill Wilson talks about erosion on the West Coast and how SANDAG is working around it to continue to run its trains.

Railway Age Editor-in-Chief William C. Vantuono interviews 2020 Railroader of the Year President and CEO Pat Ottensmeyer.

Virgin Trains USA's Orlando Extension; NRC Chairman Jim Hansen by RT&S, Railway Age, IRJ

Flooding put pressure on a Norfolk Southern rail bridge in Brunswick, Mo., in October, and crews had to find a way to take the span down and rebuild as quickly as possible.