Rail News

The Interstate Commerce Commission has agreed to begin a rule-making to aid the implementation of th

CANADIAN NATIONAL INKS SALE PACT WITH CONRAILConsolidated Rail Corp. and Canadian National R

MAKE YANKEE EXPORTS MORE EXPENSIVE; that will keep the balance of payments strong for Japan.

Burlington Northern Railroad, happy with its joint marketing agreement with Atchison, Topeka and San

For the week ended Oct. 14, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 1

TWO FIRMS TO BUILD ARTICULATED RAILCARSCHICAGO HEIGHTS, Ill. - Thrall Car Manufacturing Co.

Canadian Pacific Ltd. Thursday offered to buy the 44 percent of Soo Line Railroad Co. it doesn't alr

The three major railroads that serve the Bay Area - the Southern Pacific, Union Pacific and Atchison

CSX TRANSPORTATION INC. (Jacksonville, Fla.) - David W. Hemphill was named assistant vice president,

A lack of grain sales to the Soviet Union this year has left Canadian railroads with a surplus of ra

Thomas M. Fiorentino was named chief of staff of the Federal Railroad Administration, reporting to A

CONRAIL EARNINGS UP 5 PERCENT IN QUARTERConsolidated Rail Corp. earned $87 million, or $1.27

James A. Hagen became president, chairman and chief executive officer of Consolidated Rail Corp. jus

Trailer Train Co. launched a thorough survey of the nation's rail traffic and found that Chicago han

Thomas M. Fiorentino has been named chief of staff of the Federal Railroad Administration. A

The Interstate Commerce Commission has authorized the Southern Pacific Transportation Co. to provide

TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY SAM SKINNER gets high marks from two railroad chief executives for his effo

Arnold B. McKinnon, chairman, president and chief executive officer of the Norfolk Southern Corp., t

For the week ended Oct. 7, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 12

The soft landing just got bumpier. Continuing weakness in the manufacturing sector was refle

Wisconsin Central Railroad, marked its second birthday this week and said it expects to post $105 mi

American President Cos. saw its earnings erode again in the third quarter with net income of $8.1 mi

In less than a year, the budding double-stack train business in New England has grown from a curiosi

At least 300 conference delegates and 100 exhibitors from companies involved in international trade

DRUHAN TO ADDRESS TRANSPORTATION TABLEWilliam Druhan, program director of the American Assoc

Freight traffic forecasts for the Anglo/French Channel tunnel have been adjusted in response to the

The trustee for the bankrupt Chicago, Missouri & Western Railway is planning to ask a bankruptcy cou

Amtrak is offering special discount round-trip fares from now until Dec. 14 on several short distanc

Operating income from container shipping activities at CSX Corp. was $42 million in the third quarte

For the week ended Sept. 30, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled

The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. has asked a federal appeals court to overturn the $750 m

Paul R. Rudder was named senior vice president, operations for Norfolk Southern Corp. His name was m

All of the major players in the plan to sell the north-south mainline of the bankrupt Chicago, Misso

FEDERAL EXPRESS CORP. didn't win over any forwarders at a recent air-cargo association meeting at Ne

CSX Transportation Inc., the big Eastern railroad system, is under pressure to increase its return o

The Soviet Union's newest strategic railroad, the 2,200-mile Baikal-Amur Mainline that runs from Sib

E. Frenkel, one of the Soviet Union's growing number of psychic healers and mentalists, claimed he u

A little railyard in western Massachusetts is making big plans to funnel more international trade th

Despite a 40 percent increase in operating income from container shipping operations, CSX Corp. earn

As a part of an agreement to be announced later this week in Washington, the United States and the S