Rail Group On Air
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Podcast by RT&S, Railway Age, IRJ
Episodes
- Ocean of Capital Chasing Trains, With Eric Marchetto, David Nahass and Will Geiger
This episode of Rail Group On Air discusses the changing landscape of capital investment in the rail industry, featuring Eric Marchetto, David Nahass, and Will Geiger. They explore the influx of passive capital from infrastructure funds an…
- UP-NS Merger Perspectives, With Farrukh Bezar
Farrukh Bezar and William C. Vantuono discuss the potential Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern merger. Bezar shares insights on market conditions, regulatory factors, truck-to-rail conversion, competition, and the merger's potential effects on…
- Norfolk Southern Chief Sustainability Officer Josh Raglin
Norfolk Southern Chief Sustainability Officer Josh Raglin discusses how companies are strategically investing in sustainability. He outlines five predictions for 2026, emphasizing a sharper focus on materiality, sustainability as a busines…
- Rob Russell – “Rail is a Precious Commodity”
Rob Russell discusses the railroad industry’s health from 2002 to the present, the service and rate environment, intermodal outlook, and challenges for carload customers with William C. Vantuono. They also examine UP’s acquisition of NS.
- Norfolk Southern EVP and COO John Orr Talks Passenger Rail
John Orr, EVP and COO of Norfolk Southern, details efforts to improve passenger rail service on their network, highlighting operational enhancements and partnerships with local and state passenger groups. He emphasizes safety as foundation…
- Freight Rail Equipment Market Insights with Kate Suprenuk and David Nahass
This podcast, taken from Railway Age’s 2025 Rail Insights Conference, features Kate Suprenuk, President of Leasing and Manufacturing, Union Tank Car Company & Procor | Marmon, in conversation with David Nahass, President, Railroad Financia…
- Jason Seidl, TD Cowen-Class I Service, Growth and the Final Consolidation Round
Without volume and market share growth, the Class I’s may be at risk—or be forced to look at merging. Investors continue to await the next leg of Class I railroad earnings growth. While margin gains from current levels are expected, PSR (P…
- Rail Insights 2025- STB Chair Patrick Fuchs
Drawn from our 2025 Rail Insights conference, this edition of Railway Age’s podcast series features Surface Transportation Board Chair Patrick Fuchs in conversation with Editor-in Chief William C. Vantuono. Now in his second five-year term…
- Railway Age 2025 Railroader of the Year, CSX’s Joe Hinrichs
Railway Age’s 2025 Railroader of the Year is CSX President and Chief Executive Officer Joe Hinrichs, who joined the railroad industry in September 2022 and in a little more than two years has made immediate and long-term positive impacts.…
- Rail Group On Air TRB Long Freight Train Consensus Study
In 2021, the U.S. Congress directed the Secretary of Transportation to enter into an agreement with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine – Transportation Research Board (TRB) “to conduct a study on the operation of…
- Indiana Rail Road President and CEO Joe Gioe
The Indiana Rail Road (INRD) named Joe Gioe President and CEO in mid-August 2024. A career railroader with 20 years of industry experience, he has held leadership positions at two Class I railroads, with most of his tenure at BNSF, where h…
- Worldline Transport Markets Director, UK and Ireland Martin Howell
Speaking with IRJ Editor-in-Chief Kevin Smith on this episode is Martin Howell, Transport Markets Director for the UK and Ireland at Worldline, a payment service provider, which also operates a number of operational systems for the railway…
- NJT President and CEO and Northeast Corridor Commission Co-Chair Kevin Corbett
New Jersey Transit President and CEO and Northeast Corridor (NEC) Commission Co-Chair Kevin Corbett and Railway Age Editor-in-Chief William C. Vantuono discuss key issues involved with the 453-mile Washington D.C.-New York-Boston NEC, the…
- Linsinger Presents InnoTrans 2024 Plans
In its inaugural podcast, we hear from Walter Kastinger, head of sales at Linsinger’s mobile rail milling division. Kastinger presents the rail milling solutions that visitors to this year’s InnoTrans can expect to see at Linsinger’s exhib…
- Rail Insights 2024 With Norfolk Southern EVP and COO John Orr
Norfolk Southern Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer joined Railway Age Editor-in-Chief William C. Vantuono at the 2024 Rail Insights Conference for this discussion on the changes that have been under way at the Class I ra…
- Commercial and Operational Strategies for Class I Volume Growth, With Farrukh Bezar
How can Class I scheduled railroad operations translate into volume growth? What are the opportunities for industrial development? Why are short line and regional partnerships key to overall rail industry success? Is more culture change ne…
- Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw, Doing What’s Right
Norfolk Southern on June 17 released its 2024 Midyear Report on Safety Accomplishments, which summarizes the railroad’s organizational actions, safety improvements and partnerships enacted in the past 16 months. “When we make a promise, we…
- Alberta Premier Danielle Smith Discusses Railways
Danielle Smith, Premier of Canada’s Alberta Province, discusses freight and passenger rail in the Province from economic, social and environmental standpoints with Railway Age Editor-in-Chief William C. Vantuono. CN and Canadian Pacific Ka…
- Norfolk Southern Executive Vice President And Chief Marketing Officer Ed Elkins
Norfolk Southern Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer Ed Elkins began his railroad career at Norfolk Southern in 1988 as a Road Brakeman after serving in the United States Marine Corps. Appointed CMO in 2021, he leads the c…
- Norfolk Southern Performance Excellence, with Vice President Transportation Joe Gioe
As Norfolk Southern Vice President Transportation, Joe Gioe is responsible for leading a culture of safe, predictable and consistent service by empowering transportation team members to meet the needs of NS customers. He also leads the Per…
- Foundations Of Rail Safety With Steve Ditmeyer Part 2, ITS
In Part 2 of this two-part series on railroad safety and technology, Steven R. Ditmeyer takes a deep dive into ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems), specifically, highway/rail grade crossing warning devices that interface with motor ve…
- CN’s Tracy Robinson, 2024 Railroader Of The Year
Railway Age’s 2024 Railroader of the Year Award, the 61st annual, goes to an experienced and highly respected North American rail industry leader: CN President and Chief Executive Officer Tracy Robinson. She “continues the sweeping leaders…
- Foundations Of Rail Safety With Steve Ditmeyer Part 1, PTC
In Part 1 of this two-part series on railroad safety and technology, Steven R. Ditmeyer discusses the fundamentals of signaling and train control and takes a deep dive into PTC (Positive Train Control) and its potential for evolving beyond…
- Norfolk Southern EVP and COO Paul Duncan On Workforce Initiatives
Norfolk Southern is justifiably proud of the partnership it has forged with its craft unions. Executive Vice President and Chief Operatiing Officer Paul Duncan discusses the improvements and special programs that have been instituted at No…
- Future of Railway Asset Finance with Carsten Wiebers, KFW-IPEX Bank
IRJ Editor-in-Chief Kevin Smith sits down with KFW-IPEX Bank Global Head of Aviation, Mobility & Transport Dr. Carsten Wiebers to discuss the future of railway asset finance and the challenges and opportunities posed by green financing for…
- CN Chief Security Officer and Chief Of CN Police Service, North America Stephen Covey
Rail Group On Air shines a spotlight on railroad policing during Rail Safety Week 2023 in this podcast with CN Chief Security Officer and Chief of CN Police Service, North America Stephen Covey. This long-time law enforcement professional…
- Change Questions, With D. Lynn Kelley And Sonia Bot
This edition of Rail Group on Air spotlights the recently released change management book, Change Questions, by noted executive D. Lynn Kelley Ph.D. with prominent internationally known Lean Management expert John Shook. The pace of organi…
- Canadian Pacific Kansas City EVP and Chief Transportation Officer John Orr
John Orr, Executive Vice President and Chief Transformation Officer of Canadian Pacific Kansas City, provides an in-depth, up close and personal look at North America’s first and only transnational railway in a wide-ranging discussion with…
- Rail Electrification Council Part 2 Of 2
n this conclusion of a two-part series, Jim Hoecker and Steve Griffith of the Rail Electrification Council talk about the transition away from fossil fuels, as well the national electrical grid’s need to expand to handle rapidly increasing…
- Rail Electrification Council, Part 1 of 2
Is electrification—or re-electrification—a viable means of rail propulsion, particularly for North American freight? In this first of a two-part series, Jim Hoecker and Steve Griffith of the Rail Electrification Council describe the organi…
- Notch 8 To The Golden Run, Part 3: Essential Success Factors
This is Part 3, “Essential Success Factors,” of a three-part series based upon the new book, Dynamic Multi-Level Decisioning Architecture: Making the Right Decisions at the Right Time, With the Right Authority for Sustained Competitiveness…
- Notch 8 To The Golden Run, Part 2
This is Part 2, “The Business Environment as a Service Platform,” of a three-part series based upon the new book, Dynamic Multi-Level Decisioning Architecture: Making the Right Decisions at the Right Time, With the Right Authority for Sust…
- Notch 8 To The Golden Run, Part 1: From Sensors to the Boardroom
This is Part 1, “From Sensors to the Boardroom,” of a three-part series based upon the new book, Dynamic Multi-Level Decisioning Architecture: Making the Right Decisions at the Right Time, With the Right Authority for Sustained Competitive…
- Railroad Safety Through Data, with Jeffrey Necciai And Ed Harris, Duos Technologies
Duos Technologies is one of the leaders of artificial intelligence (AI), data analytics, machine vision and other advanced technologies the railroads are increasingly leveraging. Chief Technology Officer Jeffrey Necciai and Duos Board Memb…
- RAD Torque Systems B-RAD Series
The RAD Torque Systems B-RAD Series of battery-powered torque wrenches, which currently includes B-RAD S, B-RAD Select, Digital B-RAD and B-RAD Select Offset tools, now includes the new B-RAD X and B-RAD EGX-R, a tool customized specifical…
- Commuter Rail Coalition: CRISI – What‘s In It For Commuter Rail?
Federal funding is available for rail improvement and expansion projects through the CRISI (Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements)Program, a $1.43 billion FRA-administered initiative for capital projects that will improv…
- The Future of Rolling Stock, Sponsored by Clever Devices
IRJ Editor-in-Chief Kevin Smith speaks with John Santamaria of Clever Devices and Alex Pacquet of Alstom on the rise of alternative traction in the rail industry as well as the latest trends in passenger experience and the shift toward pre…
- 2022 RT&S Engineer of the Year John Cech from BNSF
Join RT&S Managing Editor David Lester as he talks with 2022 RT&S Engineer of the Year John Cech from BNSF about challenging projects, the technological movement, what it takes to work in the rail industry, and recruiting the younger gener…
- Rail Group On Air: 2022 Top Projects, Part 2
RT&S Editor in Chief Bill Wilson talks to Railroad Construction Company, Inc., about the Way Interlocking and Subway Structure Rehabilitation.
- Technology Transformation with PST
Other industries have been where railroading is today: going through technology transformations. And those other industries are not only surviving, but thriving. PS Technology Senior Vice President Abhi Bhan, who comes from those successfu…
- Norfolk Southern TOP|SPG Operating Plan, with Cindy Sanborn and Paul Duncan
Norfolk Southern’s TOP|SPG operating plan—which stands for Thoroughbred Operating Plan | Service Productivity Growth—has evolved from NS’s previous plans, TOP 21 among them. Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Cindy Sanbor…
- Where Are They Now? Wick Moorman, 2011 Railroader Of The Year
Railway Age’s 2011 Railroader of the Year Charles W. “Wick” Moorman IV retired as chairman, president and CEO of Norfolk Southern in 2015, then spent a year as president of Amtrak. Since then, he’s been active in historic preservation, amo…
- Passenger Trains on Freight Railroads: Gene Skoropowski and Tom Mulligan
Passenger Trains on Freight Railroads: Gene Skoropowski and Tom Mulligan by RT&S, Railway Age, IRJ
- Rail Group On Air: 2022 RT&S Top Projects, Part 1
RT&S Media Editor-in-Chief Bill Wilson talks to the builder behind the Mid-Coast Corridor Projects in San Diego, Calif., which earned a spot on the 2022 RT&S Top Projects list.
- Plasser & Theurer at IAF International Exhibition Preview, with IRJ
Ahead of next week’s IAF International Exhibition on Track Technology in Münster, Germany, Plasser & Theurer speaks with IRJ Editor-in-Chief Kevin Smith in our latest Rail Group on Air podcast. Fabian Hansmann, Deputy Director for Marketin…
- Rail Group On Air: The Grand Slam Tunnel Project
Railway Track & Structures Editor-in-Chief Bill Wilson talks with AmeriStarRail's Scott Spencer about the proposed Grand Slam project that would run through downtown Baltimore.
- Rail Group On Air: Both sides of the fence
The North County Transit District's decision to build a fence along the Del Mar bluffs has been debated for years, but recently the topic has really heated up. RT&S Editor-in-Chief Bill Wilson talks to both sides of this "fence".
- 2022 Legislative Look-Ahead With The Commuter Rail Coalition
Commuter Rail Coalition Director of Government Relations John Cline of Cline Strategic Consulting, industry lobbyists Julie Minerva of Carpi & Clay and Bennett Resnik of Cardinal Infrastructure, and CRC Executive Director KellyAnne Gallagh…
- Rail Group On Air: Union Pacific's top exec Lance Fritz talks about the state of Class 1
Railway Track & Structures Editor-in-Chief Bill Wilson interviews Union Pacific President and CEO Lance Fritz about the Class 1's capital program and the industry's labor shortage.
- Siemens Mobility North America President and CEO Marc Buncher
Siemens Mobility North America President and CEO Marc Buncher talks with Railway Age Editor-in-Chief William C. Vantuono about the 2022 North American rail market. What are the opportunities for the passenger rail industry with the infrast…