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Now On Line: Railway Age’s March 2024 Digital Edition
Written by Marybeth Luczak, Executive Editor![image description](https://www.railwayage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/ramarch2024.png)
The March 2024 issue of Railway Age is available digitally, showcasing our Short Line and Regional Railroads of the Year as well as deep dives into next-gen motive power.
Railway Age is proud to recognize the Mississippi Export Railroad (MSE) as its Short Line Railroad of the Year, and the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway Company (W&LE) as its Regional Railroad of the Year for 2024. The Eastern Idaho Railroad (EIRR), a Watco subsidiary, has earned our Short Line Honorable Mention. Each one has focused on growth by turning around aging infrastructure, boosting industrial development, and/or teaming with current and new customers.
Also inside the March 2024 issue, you’ll find feature stories on:
- Engines of Change. The locomotive market is in a state of flux with numerous options in multiple stages of design and test, according to Railway Age Editor-in-Chief William C. Vantuono.
- Compressed or Liquid Hydrogen Tenders? Hydrogen fuel locomotives will be critical to support zero emission on North American Railroads; the HGmotive™ compressed gas tender is intenteded to support this initiative, write Graciela Trillanes and Pedro Tomas Santos of HGmotive™ Inc.
- Extreme Weather, Extreme Measures. The rail industry grapples with developing climate-related resiliency plans, Railway Age Contributing Editor Joanna Marsh reports.
- MxV Rail R&D. Principal Investigator Ulrich Spangenberg and Senior Engineer Matt Wenger address wheel profiles and potential switch point derailments.
Plus:
- Railway Age Editor-in-Chief William C. Vantuono reviews William H. Galligan’s new book, “Vision Accomplished: The History of Kansas City Southern.”
- Railway Age Capitol Hill Contributing Editor Frank N. Wilner profiles the National Transportation Safety Board’s “Top Cop,” Jennifer Homendy.
- And Railway Age Financial Editor David Nahass discusses freight rates and shipping companies. Yes; really. While this is Railway Age, not Marine Log, the connection comes from a rail industry veteran who suggested that railcar manufacturing was in the same place as the shipping market following consolidation, according to Nahass.