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NS keeps chugging along
(The following article by April Taylor was posted on the Hampton Roads Daily Press website on July 29.) NORFOLK -- Norfolk Southern's operating revenues reached $1.8 billion in the second quarter of 2004, an increase of 11 percent over the same period last year and...
Norfolk Southern earnings up 55 percent
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on July 28.) NORFOLK, Va. -- Norfolk Southern Corp. said Wednesday that profits rose 55 percent in the second quarter, beating Wall Street estimates, as coal and merchandising shipping volumes increased and the...
CSX earnings fall 6 percent in 2Q
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on July 28.) JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Railroad giant CSX Corp. reported Wednesday that second-quarter earnings fell 6 percent as the company completed a restructuring of its management staff. In the three months...
Kansas City Southern posts strong second quarter & year-to-date results
(Kansas City Southern issued the following news release on July 29.) KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Kansas City Southern (KCS or Company) (NYSE:KSU) reported consolidated net income of $ 9.2 million, or $0.11 per diluted share, for the second quarter of 2004, compared to a net...
Search team finds body of CSX worker
(The following story by Dan Murtaugh appeared on the Mobile Register website on July 29.) CROSSROADS, Ala. -- The search for a missing CSX railroad employee ended early Wednesday when rescue workers spotted the Mobile man's body floating in the Tensaw River. Marion...
Twelve CN cars jump tracks near Ardbeg
(The following report appeared on the Parry Sound North Star website on July 29.) ARDBEG, Ont. -- Twelve of 47 cars on a Canadian National Railway train jumped the tracks about 15 kilometres from here. The cause of the derailment, near the remote community of Burton,...
Suicide by train: An act of horror with many victims
(The following story by Mike Clary appeared on the Sun-Sentinel website on July 29.) FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. –- One afternoon Derrick Edwards was sitting outside his apartment, soaking his tender ankle in a bucket of water and Epsom salts, when without a word to anyone...
CPR to hold second-quarter earnings conference call on July 29
(Canadian Pacific issued the following news release on July 28.) CALGARY -- Canadian Pacific Railway will release its financial and operating results for the second quarter of 2004 at 7:30 a.m. Eastern time (5:30 a.m. Mountain time) on July 29, 2004. CPR will discuss...
Plans make tracks for shorter Chicago trip
(The following article by Peter Dujardin was posted on the Hampton Roads Daily Press website on July 28.) SUFFOLK, Va. -- In the next decade or so, freight trains could snake alongside cars on what are now grassy median strips on Interstate 664 and Route 164. Under a...
BNSF posts $249 million profit
(The following story by Dan Piller appeared on the Fort Worth Star-Telegram website on July 28.) FORT WORTH, Texas -- Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. avoided the service congestion that has dogged its main rival to post second-quarter profit of $249 million, or 67...
