Rail News

THE ROLE OF RAILROAD public relations executives has changed in recent years. Increasingly,

Railroads and their investment bankers clashed with labor unions and state regulators last week over

For the week ended June 17, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 1

Striking transport workers brought much of Britain to a halt Wednesday. The first national r

BLE WINS UNION FIGHT TO REPRESENT NS LINESThe Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers defeated t

Appearances by four railroad presidents feature today's opening session of the 37th annual meeting o

The climax of a major showdown within railroad labor will slowly unwind today, when the National Med

CSX Corp. said Tuesday that continued or expanded work stoppages in eastern coal fields are likely t

The U.S. Bankrupcty Court of the District of Delaware has cleared the way for the Delaware & Hudson

Greenbrier Cos. and Superior Transportation Systems have announced a new service that uses railroad

Some concrete railroad ties made by Lone Star Industries Inc. of Greenwich, Conn., are showing signs

CSL INTERMODAL UNIT OFFERS REPAIR SERVICEHUNT VALLEY, Md. - CSL Intermodal said its chassis

A CHANGE THAT HAS BEEN OCCURRING in the railroad freight marketplace was very obvious at the Interna

Providence & Worcester Railroad Co. officials late last week were unable to explain why Consolidated

For the week ended June 10, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 1

The Port of Bremen/Bremerhaven's new Overseas Trade Center is intended to give it a competitive edge

INNOVATION IN THE railroad industry. How do you get it? Philip F. Anschutz, the mucho-money

Executives of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and Burlington Northern Railroad have signed

Intermodal services are not held in very high esteem by those who make the choices of mode and carri

Union Pacific Railroad is nearing completion of its Harriman Dispatching Center here that will contr

If the Southern Pacific Transportation Co. were a maiden at a formal dance in Southern California, i

Rail freight carloadings eked out a minuscule 0.2 percent gain for the four weeks ended May 27 compa

Trucks are the main competition, but seven-day-a-week rail service will hopefully cut into the motor

NC SERVICE MAY LINK CHARLOTTE, RALEIGHCHARLOTTE, N.C. - Rail service between Charlotte and R

SANTA FE RAILWAY (Chicago) - Jeffrey R. Moreland was named vice president and general counsel for th

New Jersey took the first step last week in providing rail service to the Hudson River waterfront co

Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner criticized a railroad anti-drug bill approved by a key House

WILL OTHER RAILROADS BE TARGETED for takeover attempts now that CNW Corp. has a definitive agreement

For the week ended June 3, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 98

Blackstone Capital Partners LP's buy-out of CNW Corp. has no impact on CNW's bond ratings, according

TRAIN ACCIDENT HEARING SHIFTED TO CLEVELANDCLEVELAND - A National Transportation Safety Boar

A key House committee approved legislation requiring random drug testing for railroad workers, rejec

MidSouth Corp. said it anticipates lower second quarter earnings this year than it had a year earlie

CAN THE NATION'S RAILROADS SUSTAIN THE DEBT they're picking up through the acquisitions and mergers

Transcisco Industries Inc. of San Francisco has signed leases for 514 rail tank cars to four petrole

The Central Vermont Railroad plans to resurrect north-south intermodal service late this summer, the

Guilford Transportation Industries Inc. rejected out of hand a condition attached to a Providence &

The emerging regional railroad movement in the United States has created new opportunities for so-ca

TRUCK PROFIT CLIMBED IN 4TH QUARTER 1988Fourth-quarter 1988 profit for 100 of the nation's l

A good railroad tie can withstand 30 years of freight trains and snowstorms, but only a few weeks wi