Sheet Metal Members Have Opportunity to Learn Detailing in Six Weeks

After consulting with a number of the largest mechanical contractors in the United States, the ITI (International Training Institute) has enhanced its BIM courses to better meet the training needs expressed by those contractors. The result is a total immersion training experi [...]

Editorial: Time to get serious about oil-by-rail safety

Nobody would reasonably expect you to put up with a bomb in your backyard. Yet every day, car after car of oil travels on railroads just steps away from people, homes and businesses, putting them at risk of explosions caused by unsafe oil tanker cars. This is increasingly tru [...]

Full Disclosure: What's in those rail cars?

On a dead-end street in St. Paul, Susan Juaire runs a home day care with a scenic overlook of boxcars, locomotives and railroad tracks. Though she doesn’t like it, Juaire has gotten used to the constant noise of shipping containers being loaded between trucks and trains. She [...]

Re-enactment of Golden Spike ceremony May 10

PROMONTORY, Utah – A re-enactment ceremony on Saturday (May 10) will mark the 145 years that have passed since the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad. The annual May 10 re-enactment of the driving of the Golden Spike has been held since the railroad’s completio [...]

Berkshire’s $34B BNSF investment nearly doubles

If you think the man has lost his touch, think again. Warren Buffett’s ‘elephant-gun’ purchase of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe, LLC, railroad for $34 billion in 2010 was impeccably timed (coming as it did a year off the 2008-2009 financial crisis) and a huge bet on the re [...]

Local 36 Members Join In Effort to Rehab 55 St Louis Homes In One Day

Local 36 members in St. Louis joined an army of more than 1500 volunteers as part of the Rebuilding Together St. Louis organization’s massive home rehab blitz Saturday.   This was part of an effort to provide free home repair for low-income and elderly homeowners. Joining Loc [...]