Rail News

It didn't take long for Amtrak officials to realize that free quarters could fill up trains with Atl

Eleven years late and costing almost four times its original budget of $743.5 million, a sharply tru

The association representing most of the railroad industry's labor unions has made a tender offer to

PLM Equipment Growth Fund I of San Francisco has begun trading on the American Stock Exchange. PLM E

Flushing the contents of passenger-car commodes onto the tracks is a time- honored tradition in the

''YOU CAN HAVE THE FOLKS WHO WRITE THE LAWS, just let me have the folks who write the rules."

The Senate has voted to continue subsidizing local freight railroad lines that otherwise would be ab

The battle for control of CNW Corp. and its Chicago & North Western Transportation Co. railroad subs

Southern Pacific Transportation Co. has won the E.H Harriman Memorial gold medal for employee safety

SOO LINE SHIPPERS EXPRESS SURPRISE as the carrier agrees to sell its track between between Chicago a

For the week ended May 27, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 10

Although the outlook for 1989 is highly promising, officials of Intercontainer, the intra-European

CONRAIL COMPLETES PA. TRACK MAINTENANCEPHILADELPHIA - Conrail said track maintenance on its

Railroads have long been able to set their own safety standards, and a railroad engineer doesn't eve

The Supreme Court declined to review the Interstate Commerce Commission's refusal to establish natio

An Agriculture Department transportation expert says the Mississippi River has not recovered from la

Spain is frantically preparing for 1992. But while the rest of the European Community is pla

In 1845, when revelers began coming to New Jersey's "bathing village and health resort" by the sea,

AN ESKIMO PROVERB MAY EXPLAIN why the White House will have no problem coming up with potential succ

A pair of railroad magnates, completing the country's first transcontinental railway by driving a go

Union Pacific Corp. said it accepted about 11 million shares of its common stock at $73 a share unde

SANTA FE PACIFIC CORP. (Chicago) - Michael R. Haverty was appointed president and chief operating of

An intermodal container can now be moved from Yokohama, Japan, to New York in 14 days, with the rail

The Interstate Commerce Commission ordered an investigation into the sale of the Illinois Central Ra

A squabble between two railroad engineers over who was in charge preceded the derailment and explosi

CONRAIL COAL CAR HITS PASSENGER TRAIN IN PA.PHILADELPHIA - A runaway Conrail car loaded with

The Massachusetts Port Authority is selling time savings and service in a campaign to attract Midwes

CNW Corp.'s directors have decided to take no position on a tender offer by Japonica Partners LP to

Canadian National Railways announced it will cut 1,500 jobs in October due to increased mechanizatio

CNW Corp. said Tuesday that its seven nominees were elected to the railroad company's board of direc

When Jimmy Carter proposed moving the nation's nuclear missiles out of in- ground silos where they a

ABF FREIGHT SYSTEM INC. (Fort Smith, Ark.) - Roy Slagle was named regional vice president for sales

CONRAIL (Philadelphia) - Timothy T. O'Toole was elected vice president and general counsel. He was s

AMTRAK INAUGURATES ATLANTIC CITY SERVICEATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - Amtrak inaugurated service to

The trip was six miles and 50 years one way. Passengers aboard the Big South Fork Scenic Rai

CSX RAIL PRESIDENT GETS ADDITIONAL POSTRICHMOND, Va. - A.R. "Pete" Carpenter, president of C

For the week ended May 13, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 11

ANOTHER SIGN OF THE CHANGING TIMES in railroading comes perhaps at the wrong time. The board

Net operating income for America's railroads increased 22 percent during 1988 on a 6 percent growth

FAULTY BRAKES BLAMED FOR CALIF. DERAILMENTSAN BERNARDINO, Calif. - Federal investigators hav