BLET News
No Results Found
The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.
Daily Headlines
CPR celebrates employee ingenuity
(The Canadian Pacific Railway issued the following news release on April 11.) CALGARY -- Twenty-four Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) employees will receive the first-ever President's Ingenuity Awards today to recognize their outstanding contributions to the company and...
CSX Transportation attracts more than $1.8 billion in industrial development across its 23-state rail system in 2002
(The following news release was distributed by CSX.) JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- CSX Transportation (CSXT), the largest railroad in the eastern United States, announced today that it worked with a total of 110 companies on 117 projects to locate sites and facilities in its...
Security fears put Santa Fe RR off track
(The New Mexico Business Weekly posted the following article by Andrew Webb on its website on April 15.) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The co-owner of a small railroad in northern New Mexico says heightened security concerns have left a potential new business in limbo. The...
Amtrak lowers fares, adds trains
(The Hartford Courant posted the following Associated Press article on its website on April 15.) HARTFORD, Conn. -- Amtrak will lower fares and add additional trains on its Springfield, Mass. to New Haven route, the railroad announced Tuesday. The commuter rail...
Capitol Corridor expands service
(The Contra Costa Times posted the following article by Lisa Vorderbrueggen on its website on April 16.) WALNUT CREEK, Calif. -- At a time when transit agencies all over the nation are losing riders in droves, Capitol Corridor will add its third train in the past six...
CN looks to buy BC Rail
(Canada.com posted the following Canadian Press story by Allan Swift on April 16.) MONTREAL -- Canadian National Railway is interested in buying BC Rail if the British Columbia government puts Canada's third-largest railway on the market, CN's chief executive said...
UP releases name of conductor killed in accident
(The Idaho State Journal posted the following story on its website on April 15.) POCATELLO, Idaho -- Union Pacific Railroad officials have released the name of a conductor killed Friday night when a train car overturned in the Pocatello yard. Archie Leroy Chandler,...
Two elected to CN board of directors
(The Canadian National Railway issued the following news release on April 15.) MONTREAL -- David G. A. McLean, chairman of the board of directors of CN, today announced the election of two new directors -- A. Charles Baillie of Toronto and Hugh J. Bolton of Edmonton...
CN Rail says western grain crop key to 2003 profit
(The following Reuters article by Francois Desjardins was posted on April 15.) MONTREAL -- Canadian National Railway Co., which cut 5 percent of its workforce after last year's severe drought in Western Canada slashed grain shipments, said on Tuesday its 2003 profit...
CN prays for rain , and grain, out West
(The Montreal Gazette posted the following story by Nicolas Van Praet on its website on April 16.) MONTREAL -- Unknown weather conditions hang over an otherwise modest year of profit growth for Canadian National Railway Co. A severe drought in Western Canada ripped...
