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A grant will be used to help fund the Coos Bay Rail Line rehab project. Photo – Port of Coos Bay (Source: Progressive Railroading January 2019) By Julie Sneider, Senior Associate Editor The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) last month announced the award of $1.5 billion in 2018 grants through the Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development (BUILD) program to…

(Source: Progressive Railroading 01/18/2019) House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-Mo.) yesterday announced the ranking members of the panel’s six subcommittees for the 116th Congress. The ranking members and their subcommittees will be Rep. Rick Crawford (R-Ark.), Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials; Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.), Subcommittee on Highways and Transit;…

(Source: Progressive Railroading 01/17/2019) U.S. railroads’ traffic shot up 8.4 percent to 555,127 carloads and intermodal units during the week ending Jan. 12 compared with volumes reported for the same period a year ago, according to Association of American Railroads (AAR) data. Carload traffic jumped 10.3 percent to 266,240 units while intermodal volume climbed 6.8 percent…