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Baltimore mayor, Chinese expert to discuss maglev train
(Baltimore television station, WBAL, posted the following article on its website on January 12.) BALTIMORE -- Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley will spend some time Monday discussing magnetic-levitation trains with an expert from China. The mayor will host Wu Xiang...
Rail line a family business
(Media General News Service circulated the following story by John Yellig on January 10.) DILLWYN, Va. -- Despite its short-line designation, the Buckingham Branch Railroad will continue running for a long time to come, thanks to an entrepreneurial family who saved...
KCS to announce results January 29
(Kansas City Southern issued the following news release on January 12.) KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Kansas City Southern (KCS) will report financial results for Fourth Quarter and Year End 2003 on Thursday, January 29, 2004, prior to the opening of trading on the New York...
Texas rates rail crossing safety needs
(The following article by Martha Deller was posted on the Fort Worth Star-Telegram website on January 12.) FORT WORTH, Texas -- When a car hit a train last week at the Alvarado crossing where his 9-year-old son was killed in 2001, James Lowery instinctively blamed...
Railroad rolls out 1,000 new jobs
(The following story by Alec Rosenberg appeared on the Oakland Tribune website on January 10.) OAKLAND, Calif. -- All aboard the jobs train. Union Pacific Railroad said Friday that it is looking to hire about 1,000 new conductors around the country, including 35 in...
Baucus asks BNSF to keep line open
(The following story by Tim Leeds appeared on the Havre Daily News website on January 11.) HAVRE, Mont. -- U.S. Sen. Max Baucus sent a letter to Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway asking that the branch line from Havre to Big Sandy be kept open. The letter, sent...
BNSF president says railroad will improve service
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Dave Kolpack on January 10.) FARGO, N.D. -- The president of the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe railroad says the late delivery of railroad cars to North Dakota is not a crisis but says the company will make...
Railroad will exempt rate increase for some
(The Associated Press distributed the following article on January 10.) BILLINGS, Mont. -- Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway will exempt certain contracts from the shipping rate increases it announced recently, the railroad's president said. In a letter Thursday to...
Unions say B.C. Rail deal should halt after reports linking it to legislature raid
(The Canadian Press distributed the following article by Terri Theodore on January 9.) VANCOUVER -- Unions heaped more speculation Friday onto a police raid last month at the B.C. legislature which resulted in the firing of one ministerial aide and the suspension of...
CN Rail committed to deal
(The following story by Keith Fraser and Ian Bailey of The Province appeared at Canada.com on January 12.) VANCOUVER -- Canadian National Railway remains committed to buying B.C. Rail despite claims of a link between a police raid on the legislature and the sale, says...
