Rail News

Trucks are the main competition, but seven-day-a-week rail service will hopefully cut into the motor

NC SERVICE MAY LINK CHARLOTTE, RALEIGHCHARLOTTE, N.C. - Rail service between Charlotte and R

Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner criticized a railroad anti-drug bill approved by a key House

New Jersey took the first step last week in providing rail service to the Hudson River waterfront co

SANTA FE RAILWAY (Chicago) - Jeffrey R. Moreland was named vice president and general counsel for th

WILL OTHER RAILROADS BE TARGETED for takeover attempts now that CNW Corp. has a definitive agreement

For the week ended June 3, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 98

MidSouth Corp. said it anticipates lower second quarter earnings this year than it had a year earlie

TRAIN ACCIDENT HEARING SHIFTED TO CLEVELANDCLEVELAND - A National Transportation Safety Boar

A key House committee approved legislation requiring random drug testing for railroad workers, rejec

Blackstone Capital Partners LP's buy-out of CNW Corp. has no impact on CNW's bond ratings, according

CAN THE NATION'S RAILROADS SUSTAIN THE DEBT they're picking up through the acquisitions and mergers

The Central Vermont Railroad plans to resurrect north-south intermodal service late this summer, the

Transcisco Industries Inc. of San Francisco has signed leases for 514 rail tank cars to four petrole

Guilford Transportation Industries Inc. rejected out of hand a condition attached to a Providence &

TRUCK PROFIT CLIMBED IN 4TH QUARTER 1988Fourth-quarter 1988 profit for 100 of the nation's l

The emerging regional railroad movement in the United States has created new opportunities for so-ca

Eleven years late and costing almost four times its original budget of $743.5 million, a sharply tru

A good railroad tie can withstand 30 years of freight trains and snowstorms, but only a few weeks wi

It didn't take long for Amtrak officials to realize that free quarters could fill up trains with Atl

''YOU CAN HAVE THE FOLKS WHO WRITE THE LAWS, just let me have the folks who write the rules."

Flushing the contents of passenger-car commodes onto the tracks is a time- honored tradition in the

The association representing most of the railroad industry's labor unions has made a tender offer to

PLM Equipment Growth Fund I of San Francisco has begun trading on the American Stock Exchange. PLM E

SOO LINE SHIPPERS EXPRESS SURPRISE as the carrier agrees to sell its track between between Chicago a

The battle for control of CNW Corp. and its Chicago & North Western Transportation Co. railroad subs

The Senate has voted to continue subsidizing local freight railroad lines that otherwise would be ab

Southern Pacific Transportation Co. has won the E.H Harriman Memorial gold medal for employee safety

For the week ended May 27, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 10

Although the outlook for 1989 is highly promising, officials of Intercontainer, the intra-European

CONRAIL COMPLETES PA. TRACK MAINTENANCEPHILADELPHIA - Conrail said track maintenance on its

The Supreme Court declined to review the Interstate Commerce Commission's refusal to establish natio

An Agriculture Department transportation expert says the Mississippi River has not recovered from la

Spain is frantically preparing for 1992. But while the rest of the European Community is pla

Railroads have long been able to set their own safety standards, and a railroad engineer doesn't eve

SANTA FE PACIFIC CORP. (Chicago) - Michael R. Haverty was appointed president and chief operating of

Union Pacific Corp. said it accepted about 11 million shares of its common stock at $73 a share unde

A pair of railroad magnates, completing the country's first transcontinental railway by driving a go

AN ESKIMO PROVERB MAY EXPLAIN why the White House will have no problem coming up with potential succ

In 1845, when revelers began coming to New Jersey's "bathing village and health resort" by the sea,