by Boone Harris | Apr 12, 2021 | Blog
Innovation is this country’s currency. From the railroad and oil barons to present-day companies like Google, the United States has been built upon innovation. These innovators are legends because they saw the bigger picture and imagined what the world could be....
by Boone Harris | Mar 29, 2021 | pressreleases
Bolingbrook, Illinois – March 30, 2021 – Belt Railway of Chicago (BRC) has chosen Wi-Tronix to equip their fleet of locomotives with our advanced Violet Edge IoT Systems. The BRC is the largest intermediate switching terminal railroad in the US, located just south...
by Boone Harris | Mar 15, 2021 | Blog
Railroad Day on Capitol Hill is approaching and I’m thinking about the journey the industry has been through since its inception. In 1862, Congress passed the Pacific Railway Act, authorizing the construction of a transcontinental railroad—with four of the five...
by Boone Harris | Mar 15, 2021 | Blog
We recently witnessed a horrible chain of events surrounding the Texas Power outages, but one of the worst factors that arose during the height of the situation was politics. It’s important to focus on the facts. Politicizing the problem doesn’t help, and...
by Boone Harris | Mar 1, 2021 | Blog
There’s an ongoing debate between the U.S. and Canada surrounding privacy in rail. The U.S. weighs the public good a little more strongly over privacy than in Canada. The U.S. allows the recording of video in the cab but, without the ability to record audio, is...
