Rail News

HAS DREW LEWIS' PORTRAIT gone up on all the office walls? Some analysts on Wall Street are e

Canadian Pacific Ltd. reported preliminary net profit for 1988, before extraordinary items, of C$774

After years of neglect and some sabotage, attempts are being made to breathe new life into the railr

The Interstate Commerce Commission extended service over the bankrupt Delaware & Hudson Railway's li

The country's largest railroads are reporting major gains in operating and ordinary income, on relat

JAPANESE LEADERS LIFT BAN ON SALE OF LANDTOKYO - Government and ruling Liberal-Democratic Pa

The federal bankruptcy judge overseeing the Delaware & Hudson Railway has agreed to a plan to keep t

Rail labor has won another round in the continuing war with management over the sale of operations t

For the week ended Feb. 4, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 11

Conrail said it has completed a $33 million program to raise vertical clearance to 19-feet, 4-inches

TRANSPORTATION CHIEF TO ADDRESS RAIL GROUPSecretary of Transportation Sam Skinner will trave

Despite a new assault on its environmental permits, a small New England railroad plans to overcome l

Hopes that the cross-Channel tunnel linking Britain and France will ease growing congestion on roads

The Port of Baltimore and union officials are close to an agreement that will resolve a labor disput

The country's first magnetic-levitation train system will be built to transport guests at the Resort

Conrail does not expect a slight delay in a federal permit process to derail its plans to build an a

Amtrak has delayed restarting its long-popular Montrealer passenger service between Washington and C

CP Rail expects one of its shipper customers to file "fairly soon" the first request for arbitration

The opportunity seems to be at hand for the Port of Boston to attain a long absent rail connection t

Canada's first, scheduled, double-stack container train is to arrive in Toronto today from Vancouver

A group of state-owned European railroads has unveiled details of a mammoth $100 billion project fo

The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. was scheduled to complete the sale of the old Toledo, Pe

RUNAWAY CARS DERAIL, EXPLODE IN MONTANAHELENA, Mont. - Runaway railroad cars derailed and ex

WASHINGTON - For the week ended Jan. 14, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railro

THE GUESSING GAME OVER new leadership below the Cabinet level has swung into high gear in Washington

The state of New York has asked the trustee administering the bankrupt Delaware & Hudson Railway to

Overseas coal exports through the Gulf of Mexico were up in 1988, despite a summer drought that brou

Two of the Interstate Commerce Commission's five members denounced its decision to alter a landmark

CHEMICAL LEAMAN OPENS TRANSFER FACILITY LIONVILLE, Maine - Chemical Leaman Tank Lines has

Prices will be the key that regulates any effects a possible 1989 drought could have on shipping, sa

RAIL TRAFFIC SUMMARY FOR 1988 IS AVAILABLEAtlantic Systems Inc., a New York consulting firm

Many American railroads will understand the unaccustomed elation being experienced by state-owned Ma

For the week ended Jan. 7, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 87

The Illinois Central Railroad has lost its bid to break the crew-consist agreement it has with the U

The renomination bid of Interstate Commerce Commission Chairman Heather J. Gradison is running into

Consolidated Rail Corp.'s new chief executive told securities analysts here Wednesday that the compa

Conrail earned $78 million, or $1.13 a share, on revenue of $904 million in the fourth quarter.<

Secretary of Transportation-designate Samuel K. Skinner easily worked his way through the first publ

Santa Fe Southern Pacific Corp. reported fourth quarter income rose 37 percent to $156.1 million, or

In a bid to win intermodal cargo now moving through southern California, the Port of Seattle unanimo