Rail News

Canadian Pacific Ltd. is looking for a possible outside buyer for its 56 percent stake in Soo Line C

Commuter service on the Chicago South Shore & South Bend Railroad continued Monday after the carrier

It came down to a question of dollars, and Meehan Seaway Service and longshore labor could not come

HUNGERFORD RESIGNS AS HEAD OF PLMSAN FRANCISCO - Mark C. Hungerford has resigned as presiden

Government officials intend to invite private sector investors to bid for a majority holding in a pr

For the week ended Oct. 8, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 12

RAIL INDUSTRY EYEBROWS HAVE BEEN RAISED by the apparently unshakeable intention of the new owner of

SFSP REPORTS DROP IN QUARTERLY INCOMECHICAGO - Santa Fe Southern Pacific Corp. reported a th

UTU WILL REPRESENT LONG ISLAND CAR MENThe United Transportation Union has won a runoff elect

The Chicago South Shore & South Bend Railroad is seeking to temporarily suspend its commuter operati

The massive federal drug bill's provisions to cover transportation industry workers appeared Thursda

Conrail reported net income of $83 million, or $1.21 a share, on revenue of $876 million for the thi

The growing importance of intermodal traffic to Southern California's ports was demonstrated conclus

Rehabilitation of New York's Penn Station will begin in December 1989, cost $73 million and take fou

FREIGHTLINER DESIGN SAID TO REDUCE SPRAYPORTLAND, Ore. - Freightliner Corp. reports signific

IN THE DERBY CITY HOME STRETCH, United Parcel Service is rounding the last turn and looking at the f

Buy a square yard of France for about $1.50 and drive the railroad bureaucrats crazy while lending a

ABF FREIGHT OPENS NJ, IND. TERMINALSFORT SMITH, Ark. - ABF Freight Systems Inc. recently ope

Troubled Guilford Transportation Industries Inc. has spurned a purchase offer by two other New Engla

Every week, executives at Itel Corp. monitor the stock prices of companies they're interested in acq

Burlington Northern Inc. reported third quarter 1988 net income of $120 million, or $1.60 a share, o

American President Cos. said it will begin installing electronic tracking tags on some of its contai

Fallout from deregulation continues to be a critical factor in the evolution of the rail and truck i

For the week ended Oct. 1, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 12

In the wake of its $1.8 billion acquisition of Southern Pacific Transportation Co. last week, Rio Gr

The Delaware Otsego Corp. announced plans for a $21 million land swap with the CSX Corp. and several

Picketing at Baltimore's new container rail terminal has stopped, at least for the moment. A

RIO GRANDE INDUSTRIES FINISHING UP PURCHASEOfficials of Rio Grande Industries Inc. Wednesday

BURLINGTON NORTHERN RAILROAD (Fort Worth, Texas) - James W. Wresche was named vice president, operat

NYS&W AGREES TO SELL NJ FACILITY TO CSLICOOPERSTOWN, NY - The New York, Susquehanna and West

The United Transportation Union has begun its threatened representation fight with the Brotherhood o

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has awarded a $13.5 million contract for the sub-surfa

After a year of operations, Japan's eight companies that evolved following the privatization of the

BURLINGTON NORTHERN RAILROAD (Fort Worth, Texas) - Francis J. Coyne, vice president, human resources

THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION IS HUMMING THESE DAYS, as its newest commissioner, Karen D. Phill

For the week ended Sept. 24, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled

GRAIN SHIPPERS aren't concerned over possible tow restrictions on the Mississippi River, as the U.S.

Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV, D-W.Va., followed up an earlier promise and Thursday fired the first sh

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Warren Bentz has signed an order accepting Bethlehem Steel Corp.'s $20 cash bi

A Supreme Court justice on Tuesday rejected an emergency request by the Burlington Northern Railroad