Jacqueline Pettyjohn has been riding SEPTA's rails throughout the region for the past four decades. But, on Friday, Jan. 10, 2025, Pettyjohn -- who holds the distinction of being SEPTA's first ever ...

Hailed as the “Lady Engineer” who “took the pain out of the train,” Olive Wetzel Dennis made her lasting mark on passenger service and paved the path for future female civil engineers. Lauren A.

A TIME TO HONOR CHANGEMAKERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY. AND THERE ARE SOME, OF COURSE, RIGHT HERE IN OUR COMMUNITY. EDWINA JUSTICE WAS THE FIRST BLACK FEMALE TRAIN ENGINEER FOR UNION PACIFIC, AND SHE HOPES ...

HONOR CHANGEMAKERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY. AND TODAY WE INTRODUCE YOU TO THE FIRST BLACK FEMALE TRAIN ENGINEER FOR UNION PACIFIC. AS QUANECIA FRASER TELLS US, SHE HOPES TO INSPIRE FUTURE GENERATIONS OF ...

Crystal Trent, the first Black woman to work as a locomotive engineer for San Diego County, stands in front of a Coaster train. Trent started working for the North County Transit District as a ...

The New Orleans Regional Transit Authority (RTA) names Brian Marshall as Chief Transit Officer. Also, the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority’s (SEPTA) first female locomotive engineer, ...

In this not-to-be-missed session at the Women in Rail 2024 conference, presented by Railway Age and RT&S, illuminating new research on the underrepresentation of women of color in railroad engineering ...

Editor’s note: According to the Maritime Safety Administration of the People’s Republic of China, at the end of 2023, China had 682,635 registered international seafarers. However, only 44,511 of them ...