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Ballast maintenance product, equipment and service update

Maintenance of way technology: Top-of-rail lubrication and friction modifiers

Light-rail update: San Diego Metropolitan Transit System's trolley renewal project:

Rail infrastructure challenges, part 2: At rail transit agencies, maintenance-of-way managers are addressing track time, budget and staff resource issue

Rail infrastructure challenges, part 1: Freight railroads are on pace to meet ambitious maintenance-of-way goals this year

Tracking the infrastructure message; RailTrends to present Tea Leaves 2012 webcast — by Pat Foran

Railroading in the Laboratory: Recapping TTCI's 17th Annual AAR Research Review

Product update: Special trackwork (2012)

Of axioms, culture change and the journey; Progressive Railroading's MOW Virtual Conference & Expo; and the 2012 MOW Spending Report — by Pat Foran (Context March 2012)

Maintenance of way: Vegetation management/weed control

Maintenance of way: Material handling and distribution equipment update

Railroad safety: At grade crossings, the collaboration continues

Advertorial: Contractor case studies

Maintenance of Way: Track inspection technology

Maintenance of way: Rail grinding equipment update

Railroads aim to replace or revamp aging bridges

Rail industry data and trends from Progressive Railroading October 2011

At Union Pacific, the floods of 2011 proved to be a watershed event of sorts

Maintenance of way: Crosstie market update

For maintenance-of-way managers, finding ways to boost productivity is key

Rail fastener suppliers focus on R&D

Spring floods, tornadoes keep contractors busy

Maintenance of way: Ballast maintenance practices

Maintenance of way: Rail weld products and processes

Maintenance of way: Snow and ice-removal products and services

Maintenance of Way: R&D at TTCI

Maintenance of Way: NRC and contractor safety

Maintenance of Way: Managing track-time windows

Presenting "Maintenance of Way Spending Report 2011"; Class I capex at $12 billion for 2011; modest international trade growth in store for 2011 — by Pat Foran (Context, April 2011)

Maintenance of way: Special trackwork

Freight railroads, rail-transit agencies seek ways to make the safety grade at crossings

Contractor Case Studies: Colo Railroad Builders, Kiewit Corp., Michael Baker Corp. and RailWorks Inc.

Class I Engineering Execs: In Their Own Words

In Their Own Words: John West

In Their Own Words: T.J. Drake

In Their Own Words: David Connell

Maintenance of way: Material handling equipment update

Maintenance of Way: Tamping and surfacing equipment

Crossties: Suppliers cautiously optimistic about crosstie market's 2011 prospects

Maintenance of Way Technology: Rail Fasteners and Rail Fastening Systems

Maintenance of way: Bridge inspection services

For special trackwork suppliers, R&D is key

Technology update: Rail grinding equipment

9th Annual MOW Survey - Preface

9th Annual MOW Survey: Class Is

9th Annual MOW Survey: Regional & Short Lines

9th Annual MOW Survey: Passenger Railroads

C&S Engineers: In Their Own Words

Thermite welding equipment and techniques

Contractors talk tie dispoal, pole-line elimination

Railroads arm grade crossings with better warning devices

MOW Officials "In Their Own Words"

With a weak economy at the forefront and railroad spending cuts on the horizon, crosstie demand will be restrained for the rest of '09, then drop in '10

Suppliers, Service Providers Enhance CWR Equipment

R&D is Job No. 1 for Track Fastener Suppliers

Suppliers aim to develop more efficient ballast equipment to help railroads keep trains moving on stable roadbeds

Transit agencies continue to place orders for new rolling stock as they open new lines, expand and modernize fleets

Series of seminars in Chicago last month shed light on the wheel/rail interface

Technology Update - Special trackwork

NRC’s Baker outlines recovery act’s impact on freight rail during Webcast

Freight roads continue to find ways to address an ongoing infrastructure concern: bridges that reach their age limit

8th Annual MOW Survey - Preface

8th Annual MOW Survey: Class Is

8th Annual MOW Survey: Regional & Short Lines

8th Annual MOW Survey: Passenger Railroads

How are railroads faring when it comes to taking a more holistic approach to addressing wheel/rail issues?

Context: April 2009

BNSF Repairing Track in the Pacific Northwest

Track Inspection Technology Update

Railroads Rely on Different Vegetation-Mangement Techniques, Equipment to Wipe Out Weeds and Take Out Brush

Suppliers Offer a Range of Equipment to Help Railroads Ensure Vital Infrastructure Withstands Winter's Wallop

INTRO: Railroad Contractor Case Studies

PART 1: All Railroad Services Completes Complex 'Slip-Slide' Project for Long Island RailRoad

PART 2: L.A. Colo Comes Through in the Cold for Iowa, Chicago & Eastern

PART 3: Mass. Electric Makes the Grade at 52 Crossings for North Coast Railroad Authority

PART 4: RailWorks Track Systems Does it's Part to Keep Prairie State Energy Campus Project on Track

NTSB Leadership on Display in Chatsworth

Some tie suppliers note strong demand in ’08, others feel effects of deteriorating economy

A tad more MOW work for railroads in ’08 means a bit more business for fastener suppliers

Suppliers continue to upgrade material distribution equipment

Top 13 Technological advances since 1958

Cross-disciplinary cross-talk ruled at Wheel/Rail Interaction '08

CREATE: Posting incremental progress in Chicago

MOW: Bridge construction update

AAR Research Review — A technological link

The state of small-road funding

MOW '08 Introduction

MOW '08 — Class Is

MOW '08 — Regionals/Short Lines

MOW '08 — Passenger Railroads

KCS roads add capacity, tap MOW technology

North Carolina Railroad pursues grade separation project

Vegetation management: Railroads are pulling out all the stops

9th Annual Grade Crossing Update

Six Contractors, Six Projects

MOW officials in their own words

As good a time as any in the crosstie market

From the inside looking out

The bridge between something old, something new

Holding down the fort

Railroads right-size gangs, condense work windows and optimize equipment combinations to tick tamping off the trackwork list

Winter preparedness

Context by Pat Foran (April 2007)

Industry Trends (April 2007)

DM&E, R.J. Corman land RRIF loans

Regionals, short lines try to add infrastructure today to ensure they can handle more traffic tomorrow

MOW Dollars: Progressive Railroading's 5th Annual Maintenance-of-Way Survey

Class Is boost 07 MOW budgets to keep up with track maintenance, capacity needs

Regionals, short lines boost MOW spending to tackle more track and crosstie projects in 2007

Station, track rehabilitations top many passenger roads’ MOW priority lists in 2007

Hi-rail in high gear

On the Right of Way
NRC: Rail capital cycle a hot topic in Miami

Vegetation management: Refining the art

Railroads rely on a mix of time-tested and new equipment to prevent grade crossing accidents

Six Contractors, Six Projects

In Their Own Words

The Rail Renaissance in a Crosstie Context

Soaking It All In

On The Road to Reconstruction

Getting to The Root of The Problem

February 2004 Issue Summary