Rail News

Amtrak to Celebrate Broadway Limited RunNEW YORK - Amtrak will celebrate 85 years of the Bro

Railroads urgently need federal help to cut costs and arrest the industry's declining profits, a top

Transportation of spent nuclear fuel by truck and rail poses a much smaller risk to public safety th

The Supreme Court said rail labor unions did not have the right to appeal a controversial Interstate

Santa Fe Employees Get Lump-Sum OfferSanta Fe Railway has sent letters to the homes of nearl

Chicago & Northwestern Transportation Corp. announced the second of what probably will be a series o

Battling his way through airport traffic, the freight forwarder glanced at his watch and at the stac

The High Productivity Integral Train Project seminar June 23 at the American Congress Hotel in Chica

Jamesbury Licensed To Sell ValvesPullman Leasing Co. has licensed Jamesbury Valve Corp. of W

''We're not the guys who call you on the phone during dinner to sell aluminum siding." Peter

Iowa Terminal Railroad To Sell 2 LocomotivesCHARLES CITY, Iowa - Iowa Terminal Railroad Co.

For the week ended May 23 total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 10

Significant shifts in the government policies toward the railroad industry will set the scene for a

Railroads operating computer management subsidiaries are small in number but big on ideas. I

Argentina's state railroads ran up annual deficits averaging $1.22 billion during the first half of

Pennwalt Offers Free Pseudo Steam EngineWYANDOTTE, Mich. - Pennwalt Corp., owner of the form

Reimposing government rate controls over railroads will accelerate declining industry earning trends

New $28 million Burlington Northern bridge over Willamette River in Portland, Ore., will be the long

Authorities in China plan to invest nearly US$2 billion on new railroad lines in the heavily populat

Burlington Northern Railroad will introduce direct intermodal service between Detroit and its interm

GRS Is Low Bidder For Transit Radio PactSTAMFORD, Conn. - General Railway Signal Co., a unit

Union Pacific Corp. agreed to grant some trackage rights requests filed by competing carriers in an

Union Pacific Corp. recently created an operating arm to develop and market its computer software an

NY Agrees to Extend Contract With ConrailConrail and the New York Department of Transportati

North American transportation concerns and European-based companies are moving closer to reaching ou

Now that a spaghetti millionaire has purchased more than 21 miles of right of way, the controversial

Beijing Railway Station today will become China's first rail terminal to ban smoking entirely on its

Mass-Transit Contract Awarded to Fluor Corp.IRVINE, Calif. - A unit of Fluor Corp. said it w

SPEAKING OF CSX, word in industry circles is that the company will put about 20 packets of lines up

Connecticut Central Railroad, a subsidiary of a steam-powered tourist line, last week began freight-

For the week ended May 16 total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 96,

The American Shortline Railroad Association has announced a new member, Dynamic Sciences Ltd. of Mon

Conrail is investing more than $20 million to upgrade portions of its main line between Chicago and

Burlington Grain Rates Too High, ICC FindsRates on some wheat and barley shipments moving on

Metro-North President Peter Stangl says the railroad will renew efforts to recycle newspapers at Gra

The Canadian government has told a subsidiary corporation it cannot buy passenger railroad cars cost

House committee hearings Thursday appeared to focus on the substance of how much regulation is neede

Conrail and the New York Department of Transportation face a June 1 deadline for renewing a contract

System for Lumber Expanded by ConrailConrail has introduced its lumber transfer and distribu

People aren't kidding when they call Dakota Rail Inc. a mom-and-pop railroad. Jerry Ross, 58