Hamilton County indoor football team to be called Fishers Freight
The Freight plans to begin home games at the new Fishers Event Center in March 2025 and will be joined in the 8,500-seat venue by the Indy Fuel hockey team by the end of 2024.
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City hopes to start Union Station overpass rehabs this year, land new tenant for Grand Hall
Each street running below the overpasses—including adjacent stretches in the open air—would undergo improvements, to cut down on vehicle parking, increase pedestrian access and pay homage to historical and cultural milestones in the city’s history.
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INDOT to study expansion of Indy-to-Chicago train service
INDOT is expected to use a federal grant to develop a service plan for the Amtrak Cardinal line that would include increasing its frequency from three days a week to seven days.
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After Ohio derailment, Indy officials consider impact of potential downtown toxic spill
In downtown Indianapolis, where train lines hug the eastern and southern boundaries of the city’s Mile Square, a hazardous spill evacuation could affect more than 100,000 people—including office workers, residents, business owners and visitors, depending on the time of day.
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Indiana among 35 states to share $1.4B in federal funds for rail projects
Railroad safety has become a key concern nationwide ever since a train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed and caught fire in East Palestine, Ohio, in February.
Railroad group warns that car flaw could cause derailments
U.S. railroads were warned to take certain cars out of service Thursday after Norfolk Southern discovered loose wheels on a car involved in last weekend’s derailment in Springfield, Ohio.
Ohio senators ready rail safety bill after fiery crash
Railroads like the one involved in last month’s fiery crash and toxic chemical release in Ohio would be subject to a series of new federal safety regulations and financial consequences under legislation being introduced Wednesday by the state’s two U.S. senators.
UPDATE: House votes to avert rail strike, impose deal on unions
The bill lawmakers are considering would impose a compromise labor agreement that was voted down by four of the 12 unions representing more than 100,000 employees at large freight rail carriers.
Rail union rejects contract as strike threatens U.S. economy before holidays
A national rail strike, which could happen as early as Dec. 5, would threaten the nation’s coal shipments and its supply of drinking water.
Large rail union rejects deal, renewing strike possibility
About 56% of the track maintenance workers represented by the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division union who voted opposed the five-year contract even though it included 24% raises and $5,000 in bonuses.
Biden: Tentative railway labor deal reached, averting strike
President Joe Biden said Thursday that a tentative railway labor agreement has been reached, averting a strike that could have been devastating to the economy.
From carmakers to refiners, industries brace for rail strike
Car buyers might not get the vehicle they want on time, commuter rail lines could see service disrupted, and shipments from everything from oil to livestock feed could be snarled.
Progress Rail in Muncie to build battery-powered locomotives
Progress Rail, a subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc., says the locomotives use no fuel and emit zero exhaust emissions.
State considers adding fourth port to strengthen economic development
Already, ports in Jeffersonville and Mount Vernon move goods to and from Indiana along the Ohio, downstream to the Mississippi River and out to the Gulf of Mexico.
Celadon to acquire Canadian trucking, rail firm
The Indianapolis-based trucking firm plans to establish a foothold in the Canadian rail industry by acquiring N. Yanke Transfer Ltd., which posted $90 million in revenue in 2012.
Railroad company expanding Indianapolis terminal
Indiana Rail Road Co. will construct an intermodel terminal to give Indiana companies an all-rail option for products moving to and from Asia in containers.
Indiana Rail Road revives downtown truck terminal
The Indiana Rail Road Co. has reactivated a closed rail yard through a partnership with a Canadian logistics company, which serves about a dozen of INRD’s customers at the yard.
CSX passing over Avon yard, investing elsewhere
Central Indiana’s rail terminal to the world is CSX Transportation’s Avon yard, in Hendricks County. But don’t look for much in the way of rail shipments from here directly to the West Coast. The yard operates well below capacity. Meanwhile, CSX has been investing hundreds of millions of dollars in infrastructure upgrades to terminals in Ohio and farther east.
Rail firm says it won’t reach 650-jobs goal in Muncie
Progress Rail Services, which said last October that it would create up to 650 jobs in Muncie by 2012, now expects to employ just 250 people at the plant by the end of next year, according to a magazine.
Logistics study revisits old concerns
The two-year study by the Conexus Indiana Logistics Council Executive Committee involved 36 logistics executives statewide.
Carp, shipping and a lawsuit
A lawsuit aimed at stopping invasive carp from reaching Lake Michigan could bring some forms of shipping to a grinding halt.
Indiana prepares roadmap to stay leader in logistics
Conexus Indiana, an industry-driven advanced manufacturing and logistics initiative, is spearheading the development of a
strategic logistics plan.
Let’s use old terminal for distribution hub
The city should organize a public-private partnership to create a multi-modal distribution community at the site of the former
Indianapolis Airport terminal.