Canadian Railway Today
Railway
CN’s transportation-services division is using an RFID-based trailer-chassis rental system that not only reduces congestion but also improves chassis management.
Last year, business was booming for the intermodal transportation services arm of the Canadian National Railway (CN). Increased usage of its intermodal freight transportation terminal in Brampton, Ontario, however—where cargo containers arrive on railcars and are [...]
Revolution in Industrial Transportation
Railway
The Importance of Transport
There are various reasons why developments in transportation affected the industrial revolution as well as vice versa. Arguably changes in transportation contributed to the onset of the industrial revolution in the first place.
Transportation and the Industrial Revolution were strongly inter connected with each other because without improved modes of transportation it would [...]
Jamaican Railway
Railway
A Nostalgic Look at the Rail Service – Its Beginning and Future
Traveling through the countryside by train was once a part of the Jamaican experience for many. The rails cut through parishes to connect families, or even workers to their places of employment. Sadly, the rail service is no longer in existence. Attempts to revive [...]