Prime time: RailPrime's most-read stories of 2024
1/2/2025
By Pat Foran, Editor-in-Chief
During the year that ended a couple days ago, RailPrime subscribers were most interested in stories about rail-culture-related change and progress involving same, projects at rail-served ports, rail safety, and everything and anything related to Class Is and short lines that they couldn't read/engage with anywhere else.
Thanks to everyone who read, viewed and engaged with our originally reported stories, video interviews and webcast content this past year.
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Following are the most-read (clicked on) pieces on RailPrime in 2024:
1. “CN enhances safety culture, performance with employee reporting app” (5/14/24)
2. “A tale of two engineers: Veteran Dittmer and mid-career pro Schroedter find happy medium in balancing work, life” (5/10/24)
3. “Port of Benton to bolster rail infrastructure, establish an intermodal facility” (7/2/24)
4. “Female train crew makes history in Columbia, S.C.” (4/18/24)
5. “UP adopts a more modern — and groundbreaking — transportation management system” (3/11/24)
6. “Train length questioned at congressional hearing on rail crossing safety” (1/19/24)
7. “Orr: There’s a need for change at Norfolk Southern” (5/23/24)
8. “CSX to continue major upgrades to former Pan Am system in 2024” (2/26/24)
9. “Rail industry to Congress: California’s locomotive rule is a state reg with national consequences” (6/24/24)
10. “Washington state port primed to start major rail expansion in 2024” (1/25/24)
11. “Operations at Oregon’s only international container terminal to come to an end in October” (4/25/24)
12. “Big discussions on hefty UP topics aboard the Big Boy steam train in Texas” (10/14/2014)
13. “Plans advance for proposed CN facilities in Illinois, Iowa” (3/21/24)
14. “After 60 years, Wabtec’s Kovacs calls it a day” (3/8/24)
15. “Washington state port seeks to restore rail service after a long lull” (9/16/24)
