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All Rail Jobs and Classifieds Rail Job/Classified Post: Contact: www.caltrain.com/jobs The Manager, Positive Train Control (PTC)is responsible for the engineering and oversight of the PTC System for the Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board (Caltrain). Minimum Qualifications: •Bachelor’s degree in electrical/ Electronic Engineering, Computer Science or related field. •Five years of professional railroad PTC experience or related field.

Members of the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) elected the 2026-2027 slate of officers at the association's annual meeting, held during APTA’s TRANSform Conference & EXPO in Chicago Oct. 4-7. Denise Figueroa, board member of the Capital District Transportation Authority of Albany, New York, was elected chair; Randy Clarke, general manager and CEO of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, was elected vice chair.

The Maryland Transit Administration (MTA) has launched a new weekday Maryland Area Rail Commuter (MARC) service between Montgomery County and Baltimore. The new commuter-rail service directly connects Brunswick, Point of Rocks, Barnesville, Germantown, Metropolitan Grove, Gaithersburg, Rockville, Kensington, Silver Spring, College Park, Laurel and Baltimore, with one train traveling to Baltimore in the morning and one returning in the evening.

The Railway & Locomotive Historical Society has selected seven students to receive $4,000 scholarships each. Now in its seventh year, the R&LHS scholarship program awards funding to students pursuing higher education in fields related to rail operations or history.

The U.S. Department of Transportation has selected 12 projects across the country to receive a total of $426 million in competitive federal grant funding though the Nationally Significant Multimodal Freight & Highway Projects (INFRA) program. The projects will address road congestion by increasing capacity for bypasses used by freight trucks and by expanding highways, among other bottleneck-reducing efforts, USDOT officials said in a press release.

Progressive Railroading today opened the nomination period for the magazine's 2027 Women of Influence in Rail recognition program. From Oct. 5 through Nov. 30, the magazine is seeking rail-industry companies' nominations of female employees who are trailblazers in leadership, innovation, technology and sustainability.

The Jacksonville Port Authority (JAXPORT) board last week approved a six-year lease renewal with Watco subsidiary Jacksonville Port Terminal Railroad LLC, JAXPORT officials announced in a LinkedIn post. The Jacksonville Port Terminal Railroad operates the on-dock rail system at JAXPORT’s Talleyrand Marine Terminal and provides direct connections to CSX and Norfolk Southern Railway.

For Canadian National Railway Co., a new Edmonton, Alberta, terminal means an increase in capacity and a continuing decrease in transcontinental transit times. On Oct. 2, CN inaugurated the $25 million terminal, which targets the railroad's "transcontinental 'need for speed' intermodal trains that've made CN more truck-like than ever before," said Paul Tellier, CN president and chief executive officer, in a prepared statement.

Union Pacific Railroad's Chicago-area intermodal capacity might greatly increase by year-end 2003. The railroad sometime this fall plans to begin constructing a $180 million to $200 million intermodal terminal on Brush Grove Road just southwest of Rochelle, Ill. — about 75 miles west of Chicago. Under the project's first phase, UP would develop 750 acres of the 1,100-acre site, creating a 1,000-container-per-day capacity terminal.

In the wake of airline industry security breakdowns that enabled terrorists to carry out the attacks of Sept. 11, the railroad industry reacted quickly, tightening security, restricting access to major facilities and intensifying inspections. That's the message Association of American Railroads President and Chief Executive Officer Edward Hamberger offered Oct.