Rail News

BUMPER STICKER seen on the Washington (D.C.) Beltway recently: Don't delay this truck. It ha

This time around, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers expects the burden of national contract ta

Traffic managers like what they see in the early days of the deregulated Canadian rail industry.

Sales of Burlington Northern Railroad's certificates of transportation are on hold. The cert

For the United Transportation Union, which represents more railroad operating personnel than any oth

Trailer Train Co. will spend $24 million to purchase 500 new railroad flatcars for transporting fini

Robert Schmiege has been elected chairman and chief executive officer of CNW Corp. and CNW's railroa

For the week ended August 13, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled

CAUSE DISPUTED IN SUBWAY BREAKDOWNSNEW YORK - Transit Authority officials blamed mechanical

Representatives of the Chicago and North Western Transportation Co. and the United Transportation Un

Railroad researchers are developing technology that could lead to the elimination of dispatchers, si

A Bay Area Rapid Transit management employee implicated in a bribery and extortion probe is resignin

PHOTO RADAR FACES SHOWDOWN IN COURTPASADENA, Calif. - Three motorists who chose to take thei

IT'S GOOD NEWS AND BAD NEWS for two Illinois grain shippers. First the good news. The shippe

A federal bankruptcy judge approved Wednesday a $14 million state bailout of the Chicago, Missouri &

DOT TOUGHENS RULES ON BRIDGE INSPECTIONSThe Department of Transportation issued new rules th

Farnborough International '88, Sept. 4-11. Aerospace Products Information Center, Farnborough, Engla

House and Senate staff members have been meeting in an attempt to pave the way for passage during th

On many trains, speed thrills. Scenery flashes past, and passengers dart from side to side to view t

A cautious Santa Fe Railway train crew was credited with preventing an explosion after 10 tank cars

A company formed by Denver billionaire Philip F. Anschutz to acquire the Southern Pacific Transporta

In another effort to ease notorious bottlenecks in its movement of coal, China is preparing to use w

Barge traffic on the Mississippi River, slowed earlier this year by shallow water, has rebounded due

Eurotunnel, the Anglo-French consortium set up to build a 31-mile rail tunnel between France and Bri

ITOFCA, SCANFREIGHT SET THROUGH ROUTINGSDOWNERS GROVER, Ill. - ITOFCA Consolidators and AB S

The Board of Freeholders of Hackensack, N.J., has requested a $100,000 grant to study the feasibilit

The bus that stops in Rushville five days a week is a lifeline for 72-year- old Evelyn Trenkle.<

Greyhound Lines Inc., the nation's last national bus network, is in a rebuilding phase and expects s

2 SOVIET RAIL WORKERS BLAMED FOR FATAL CRASHTwo railway workers have been charged with crimi

The Interstate Commerce Commission has refused to stay its decision to allow Amtrak to condemn a 50-

Amtrak service was back to normal Monday after service between New York and Washington was blocked f

GOVERNMENT TO STUDY NJ MONORAIL PROPOSALThe Urban Mass Transportation Administration has giv

Guilford Transportation Industries expects a decision from the Interstate Commerce Commission this w

Construction begins next month on a 21st century people mover system that is expected to draw close

Ocean sea and inland water carrier interests heaped more objections on the Reagan administration's p

MIDWEST AND WESTERN rail shippers are hoping conversations with rail officials will lead to lower ra

WEST GERMANY ORDERS 41 HIGH-SPEED TRAINSFRANKFURT, West Germany - West Germany's national ra

For the week ended August 6, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled

The Interstate Commerce Commission Wednesday granted Delaware Otsego Corp. an 180-day extension of i

Canadian National tripled its profit in the first half of this year over the same period in 1987, bu