Part of the rest of story not covered in the speeches. Requires a bit more due diligence to attract private investor real interest. The basic news report found here: [Read more...]

Some news reports with grand headlines look more like political posturing than great commercial breakthroughs. What is the full story behind a press release? This is the [Read more...]

Management consultants PwC have published another report about global trends in the mining industry. Mine 2015 examines the 40 largest mining companies in the world. Here are [Read more...]

Intermodal Rail growth from truck may be slowing after five years… A report in the JOC suggests that U.S. shippers are finding it more and more difficult to rationalize [Read more...]

Here is an example of an average analyst making 2nd QUARTER PROJECTIONS OF PRIVATE INVESTOR HELD RAILWAY FINANCIALS in the case of Union Pacific. Only in North America is [Read more...]

Will the federal government pay up also? No one is sure. But from the small states like DELAWARE and RI to the larger ones like PENN and Mass, the local will have to pay a [Read more...]

Interesting history from African investigative reporters Transnet Rail depends upon a lot of electricity to power its South African trains. Maybe a good tactic in the old [Read more...]

SENSER competes with Atlanta based LifeSpan Technologies in using remote sensors to measure bridge and possible track movement under load. The deal expands GREX services to [Read more...]

The FTA conducted a very large safety audit of the Washington transit system.  The results were released today. The US DOT FTA found serious safety lapses in Metrorail’s [Read more...]

A previous near consensus 86,000 car forecast earlier for this year is dropping. 80,000 to 84,000 level may now be more more likely.  Or lower? Tank cars, frack sand cars, [Read more...]