Rail News

A shortage of transshipment capacity seriously threatens the continued development in Europe of inte

In the continuing race for a long unwanted railroad, Canadian National Railways and Wertheim Schrode

Consolidated Rail Corp. credits a new safety program for the carrier's 22 percent reduction in job-r

Freight and passenger traffic across the English Channel is growing fast enough to allay any fears t

Canadian shipping magazine publisher Brian Gallery has resigned as vice- chairman of Canadian Nation

The European Commission is looking at the idea of putting together a master plan for the development

Several reports in the Soviet press have exposed not only the crisis of loaded railcars that sit for

IMPORTED CORN SHIPMENTS ARE BACKED UP in Soviet ports awaiting inland transportation. Recent

A consortium of Japanese businesses is debating whether to help finance construction of high-speed m

Officials in counties throughout California are being asked to consider an out-of-court legal settle

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway is the latest to use leasing to assure it of sufficient locomo

WASHINGTON - For the week ended Jan. 27, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railro

The development of the super-fast Transrapid magnetic levitation rail system in West Germany has run

Officials of the Delaware Otsego Corp. have denied any involvement in the Canadian National Railroad

Waterway mariners see this month as the dawn of a new era on Middle Mississippi reaches. A l

Canadian Pacific Ltd. will underwrite the operating losses that the Delaware & Hudson Railway Co. in

The column that appeared on Page 2B of the Jan. 29 edition of The Journal of Commerce should have be

SANTA FE TO INCREASE INTERMODAL RATES 7 PERCENTAtchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway is taki

Burlington Northern Railroad Co. named William E. Greenwood chief operating officer, effective Feb.

The Department of Transportation is not properly managing its new drug- testing program for workers

DEAN WORLDWIDE (Huntington Beach, Calif.) - Robert A. Wright, former general manager, was promoted t

For the week ended Jan. 20, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's majorrailroads, which is

The parent of Kansas City Southern Railway reported last week that a 26 percent increase in its 1989

Illinois Central Railroad Co. earned $8 million in the fourth quarter onrevenue of $139.8 million. T

Two tugboats moving 33 barges collided in the dark on the Mississippi Thursday, spilling more than 1

Senate confirmation of a new chairman for the Interstate Commerce Commission appears near, while a n

In an effort to reach its tough profit goals in the 1990s, CSL Intermodal took a page from the socce

Along the corridors of the crisp CSL Intermodal headquarters building here in the Baltimore suburbs,

Norfolk Southern Corp. earned $148.2 million, or 87 cents a share, in the fourth quarter, down 17.2

FIRM OFFERS SUMMARY ON RAILROAD TRAFFICAtlantic Systems Inc., a New York consulting firm, ha

CHICAGO SOUTHSHORE & SOUTH BEND RAILROAD (Michigan City, Ind.) - Peter A. Gilbertson is the chairman

For the week ended Jan. 13, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads, which is

Atlantic & Western Financial Corp. has created two subsidiaries that offer lease finance and managem

Domestic containerization will find its niche in the U.S. transportation market provided it is manag

A federal appeals court Friday threw out Transportation Department rules requiring drug tests for ma

CSX REVISES RATE PLAN ON WOOD SHIPMENTSCSX Transportation has revised the way it sets rail r

Southern Pacific Transportation Co. is raising its intermodal rates by 7 percent because of the rece

The towboat Arkwright of Consolidation Coal Co. led a veritable parade of tows that passed through M

ICC SCHEDULES VOTE ON 2 RAIL LABOR CASESThe Interstate Commerce Commission has scheduled an

UNION PACIFIC REPORTS SLIGHT RISE IN EARNINGSBETHLEHEM, Pa. - Union Pacific Corp. reported f