Rail operators take on a lot of responsibility. They have to get goods from location to location, on time, regardless of route issues. They have to take care of a $2.5 million locomotive and the hundreds of millions of dollars worth of train that trails behind it....

As the world changes at an unprecedented pace, many company leaders are turning to technology as the solution when they feel they are falling behind. I don’t disagree with this logic, but tech is not the only answer. In fact, technology works best when it...

The industrial revolution is underway. As this revolution develops, we will see stickier integration of IoT, digital B2B, multi-complex locomotive onboard architectures, and edge/cloud computing. The data we collect, our communications systems, our transport protocol...

Last month’s rail carload volume increased by 3.2 percent and intermodal volume was the second highest for any month in history at 6.6 percent. A strong economy and demand have driven some of that growth, but some wonder how much better it could have been if rail...