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CSXT names rail veteran Tony Ingram as Chief Operating Officer
(CSXT issued the following news release on March 15.) JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Michael J. Ward, CSX Corporation chairman, president, and chief executive officer and CSX Transportation (CSXT) president announced today that Tony L. Ingram has joined the company as...
Fired VIA chief says he’s ready to talk
(The following article by Graham Fraser and Susan Delacourt was posted on the Toronto Star website on March 14.) OTTAWA -- Jean Pelletier says he is ready to testify any time on his activities as ex-prime minister Jean Chrétien's chief of staff. "I've offered to...
All aboard Canada’s leading rail stocks
(The Toronto Star posted the following article by Pat McKeough on its website on March 14.) TORONTO -- Despite the lower earnings in 2003, CP Rail's business is improving. Grain shipments rebounded after droughts in 2001 and 2002. Coal and fertilizer volumes also...
CP Rail to add 41 locomotives to help ease backlog
(Bloomberg circulated the following story by Reg Curren on March 12.) CALGARY -- Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd., Canada's second-largest railroad, will add 41 leased locomotives in the second quarter to help erase a backlog of shipments after avalanches and derailments...
Strong demand for industrial sites with rail links
(The following article by Antoinette Martin was posted on the New York Times website on March 15.) NEW YORK -- Industrial brokers say they have first-hand evidence of a back-to-the-rails movement in the freight industry in New Jersey: sites with rail connections are...
The little engine that could
(The Toronto Star posted the following article on its website on March 15.) TORONTO -- The lonely whistle in the distance, smoke belching from the stack — it is story of the railways that built our nation. But nowadays smoke also conjures up images of nitrous oxide...
Deal averts a walkout for SEPTA
(The following story by Jere Downs, Patrick Kerkstra and Benjamin Y. Lowe appeared on the Philadelphia Inquirer website on March 15.) PHILADELPHIA -- SEPTA and its largest union avoided a city-paralyzing strike last night with a tentative one-year contract that...
City’s railroaders keep an iron age alive
(The following article by Corey Kilgannon was posted on the New York Times website on March 15.) NEW YORK -- An aging rail line in Queens became a media sensation last week, even drawing a visit from Mayor Micheal R. Bloomberg, after an accident involving a runaway...
River Line passengers relish inaugural ride
(The following story by Frank Kummer appeared on the Philadelphia Inquirer website on March 15.) PHILADELPHIA -- South Jersey's first new rail service in three decades opened to the public yesterday with aficionados clambering aboard railcars under the light of a...
N.J. light-rail line begins service
(The Associated Press circulated the following article by Geoff Mulvhill on March 15.) ABOARD THE RIVER LINE -- Frank C. Kozempel could not be aboard when the last passenger train chugged along the Camden-Amboy line back in June 1963, but he wasn't about to miss it...
