Lessons for railroaders in fighting against trucks for freight market share. i Weaker player can often win. By innovation that changes the rules, the smaller force can more [Read more...]

Much of the world operates railroads that lack the necessary vertical clearances and the standard 1435mm heavy axle track gauge that allows for double stacking international [Read more...]

Multiple reports confirm the start of light rail service in the capital of Ethiopia on 20 September 2015.  The start of service on Line #1 is actually relatively close to [Read more...]

Transnet’s Africa announced it management plan to offer consulting service outside of its domestic market.  This may be a flawed corporate strategy.  Lets discuss. 21 [Read more...]

An 11 year plan. 7 years just to get permitting and financing in place. ==================== The Virginia Avenue Tunnel in Washington DC. is a $400 million project. CSX broke [Read more...]

http://worldmaritimenews.com/archives/165836/drewry-ordering-big-ships-starting-to-backfire/ https://www.linkedin.com/grp/home?gid=147538&trk=my_groups-tile-flipgrp Also [Read more...]

The mid year 2015 Chinese stock market fundamentals and the overall Chinese structural debt may put a crimp in this debt financing of proposed rail/road foreign projects. [Read more...]

From Bloomberg, Jul 2, 2015 Consumer confidence in South Africa dropped to the lowest level in 14 years in the three months through June. The consumer confidence index [Read more...]

This railway news report is focused on the expected physical construction of new railway. That is the SUPPLY side story. The rest of the technical story will be found in the [Read more...]

News in the 21 June 2015 Wall Street Journal . http://www.wsj.com/articles/why-railroads-cant-keep-enough-boxcars-in-service-1434879182 “Why Railroads Can’t Keep [Read more...]