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WASHINGTON -The Association of American railroads (AAR) said today that carload freight volumes and intermodal traffic volumes were down once again on ...
Major US railroads saw their carloads of bulk cargoes and machinery plummet 9.1 percent in the week ended Nov. 15 from the same point last year, ...
As the historian Gabriel Kolko pointed out in his 1965 study railroads and Regulation, freight rates in the late 19th century kept dropping, ...
The railroads in North America industry profile is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the railroads industry. ...
AP , 11.20.08, 12:15 PM EST Shipments carried by US railroads plunged 9.1 percent last week compared with a year earlier, a major industry trade group ...
And then the railroads came. Ironically, the year that railroads began earnest competition with river traffic (1881), the Corps of Engineers established a ...
The railroads "current unrestrained pricing power over America's consumers is hurting our economy and our country, and must be addressed," Conyers, ...
Meanwhile railroads served by Tacoma Rail can expect rate increases. Rising fuel and labor costs, regulatory obligations and needed Infrastructure upgrades ...
by Frank Graham (North Platte Bulletin) - 11/19/2008 More than two-dozen customers of Union Pacific Railroad and the next four largest US railroad companies ...
Service cuts on the Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North Railroad are also expected. Cuts on Metro-North are expected to include running trains with fewer ...
Service cuts on the Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North Railroad are also expected. Cuts on Metro-North are expected to include running trains with fewer ...
The "Rail Security" rule will require freight and passenger railroads to designate rail security coordinators and report security concerns to the ...
By Michael P. Tremoglie, The Bulletin The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced new safety standards for the security of the nation's freight ...
US railroads are hoping their traffic volume in November's first full week isn'ta harbinger of things to come. During the week ending Nov. ...
(Conrail), which included Penn Central lines and those of several other Northeastern railroads. Conrail was the engine that could. It was a smashing success ...
Everyone would soon be operating on "railroad time." Noon on a well-made, properly paced sundial is whenever the sun is highest right there. ...
railroads have always been in my blood. My father, two brothers, an uncle and two cousins have made railroads their careers. I grew up in Riverdale, ...
"We're getting questions about why can't you do something, and it's becoming clear that railroads are solving problems in many urban areas," said Bill ...
Featuring model railroads, hobby shops, memorabilia sales, railroad books, new and used model equipment sold and more. Sponsored by the Appalachian Model ...
A few railroads showed gains. Canadian National added 84 cents, or 2.3 percent, at $37.77. Union pacific rose 18 cents to $57.45. Kansas City Southern was ...
... for freight and passenger railroads, although most railroads already do what that rule requires, according to the Association of American railroads. ...
If this nation set the goal of rebuilding the railroads and working out something with Detroit automakers that would produce the engines and the passenger ...
CSX, one of the nation's big four railroads, added the West Coast service to its Avon yards after repeated requests over seven years by one large local ...
"People point to railroads as having control," said Thomas Finkbiner, senior chairman of the Intermodal Transportation Institute at the University of Denver ...
Action that will be taken immediately is a letter being sent to both railroads regarding the overgrown weeds on the property. If these are not taken care of ...
Amtrak recognized George Weber, the Illinois DOT's acting chief of the Bureau of railroads, and Ron Adams, director of rail and harbors for the Wisconsin ...
railroads: Conductors, brakemen, electricians, signalmen, locomotive engineers, track workers: all are in high demand in the railroad industry, ...
The report said Samuelson, 58, works from an office at Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan and says: "Every day on a railroad is an adventure. ...
By Amanda Flitter MANCHESTER - Local resident Vincent Terrill will make sure his fellow railroad enthusiasts are well taken care of this Christmas. ...
The railroads themselves will have to monitor and report security concerns to the Transportation Security Administration, and the TSA will have broader ...
WASHINGTON (AP) - Shipments carried by US railroads fell 8.4 percent last week compared with a year earlier, a major industry trade group reported Thursday. ...
The Department of Homeland Security on Thursday issued new regulations aimed at ramping up security and safety of toxic chemical shipments on US railroads. ...
According to the agency, the rule will require railroads to identify security coordinators and report security issues to TSA. The rules also govern the ...
WASHINGTON - The trend of rail freight volumes trailing figures from this point last year is continuing, according to the Association of American railroads ...
But with investments in low-income housing, water and energy projects, airports, disaster relief - and $100 billion for new railroads - over the next two ...
Despite ongoing share repurchase programs, railroads' liquidity will remain strong into 2009, according to Fitch Ratings' latest report on liquidity in the ...
Since 1970, he has worked for railroads of New Jersey, where he lives. Anything weirder than turkeys found on the platform? We've hit horses; we've hit cows ...
However, without the railroads acquired in the past year, traffic by carloads would have fallen 6.3 percent, the company said. ...
Harding pounded away on having the railroads immediately returned to private ownership but also pushed away at restricting immigration, a topic that was ...

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