This Month in Rail: February 2025

February's been "a month of whirlwinds and would-be's, or could-be's" that have the potential to impact the North American economy and the freight transportation landscape, as RailPrime Editor-in-Chief Pat Foran notes in this edition of This Month in Rail.

Topics range from the will-there-or-won't-there-be-tariffs? uncertainty; President Trump's executive order directing agencies, among other things, to "combat illegal private-sector DEI preferences, mandates, policies, programs, and activities"; and the growth hope that is intermodal and a new report that discusses same. Pat also shares a memory about former American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association President Frank Turner, who died earlier this month.