Rail World, Incorporated

MMA was owned by Rail World Inc, a US company owned by Ed Burkhardt, who has twice been lauded as Railroader Of the Year by the industry. MMA had also cut costs by reducing staffing so that a single person — in this case Mr. Harding — was responsible for the locomotive and its 74 cars. Night of the ...

The sale has been completed of the rail company whose train derailed in Quebec last summer. Transport Canada workers are pictured looking at one of nine oil tank cars that didn't derail on July 11, 2013 in Lac-Megantic. Photo: (JOHN KENNEY/Postmedia News file) ...

Ed Burkhardt, CEO of MMA's parent company, Rail World Inc., is on the board of the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway, which is MMA's second-largest creditor with a $6 million outstanding loan. Wheeling and Lake Erie filed a lawsuit in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Bangor asking Judge Louis Kornreich to ...

Rail World Inc. bought about 750 miles of track in Quebec province, Vermont and Maine in 2003 after the prior owner, Iron Road Railways, went bankrupt. Another Burkhardt-led company already owned three lumber mills in Maine, and the railroad offered dreams of synergy. Trains could haul lumber along ...

Rail World Inc. Chief Executive Officer Edward Burkhardt has gone from railroad industry legend to Canada's public enemy No. 1 in less than a week. The executive, 74, once named Railroader of the Year by Railway Age magazine, has gotten death threats after a freight train operated by his Montreal, ...

Several months prior to his ouster, Burkhardt was named Railroader of the Year by industry trade journal Railway Age and was named one of 16 “Railroaders of the Year” by the same magazine in December 1999. After his departure from Wisconsin Central, Burkhardt started Rail World Inc., a company that ...

Edward Burkhardt, president and CEO of Rail World Inc., said he learned of the derailment from a phone call Saturday. He defended the safety record of his company, which owns a majority of shares in Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway. The railway controls the tracks and runs the train that derailed; ...