August 20, 2008 | CN, Headlines
(The following story by Guy Tridgell appeared on the Southtown Star website on August 20.) CHICAGO — Canadian National Railway’s attempt to buy the Elgin Joliet & Eastern Railway is picking up supporters. U.S. Rep. Daniel Lipinski will announce on Thursday...
August 19, 2008 | CN, Headlines
(The following story by John D. Boyd appeared at TrafficWorld.com on August 18.) Canadian National Railway asked the Surface Transportation Board to split up its regulatory process, to rule on its planned purchase of a Chicago-area regional carrier by Oct. 15 but...
August 15, 2008 | CN, Headlines
(CN issued the following on August 15.) CHICAGO — CN said today that it has asked the Surface Transportation Board (STB) to take a new approach to CN’s proposed acquisition of the major portion of the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway Company (EJ&E). CN has...
August 14, 2008 | CN, Headlines
(The following appeared on the News-Sun website on August 14.) VERNON HILLS, Ill. — State Rep. Kathy Ryg, D-Vernon Hills, has called on the federal Surface Transportation Board to hold at least one hearing in the affected northwest suburbs on the proposed Canadian...
August 13, 2008 | CN, Headlines
(The following story by Kim Smith appeared on the Suburban Chicago News website on August 13.) NEW LENOX — Trains could literally cut off the village from the outside world under a proposal by Canadian National Railway to purchase the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern lines....
August 13, 2008 | CN, Headlines
(The following story by Dan Campana appeared on the Suburban Chicago News website on August 13.) CHICAGO — Ed Frank spent 37 years working on the railroad, train crossings in particular. “I’ve seen about every kind of railway thing you can...
August 12, 2008 | CN, Headlines
(The following story by Richard Wronski appeared on the Chicago Tribune website on August 12.) CHICAGO — Call them freight trains on steroids, monster trains double-stacked with containers, long enough to block every rail crossing at the same time in some Chicago-area...
August 11, 2008 | CN, Headlines
(The following column by Morton Marcus appeared on the Munster Times website on August 11. Mr. Marcus is an economist, author and speaker formerly at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University.) MUNSTER, Ind. — Let’s get burrito-gate out of the way and...
August 11, 2008 | CN, Headlines
(The following column by Greg Hinz appeared on Crain’s Chicago Business website on August 9.) CHICAGO — Pregnant women will have to deliver in back seats. Whole subdivisions will burn. Productivity will plummet as fire trucks and cars alike are stuck in traffic....
August 7, 2008 | CN, Headlines
(The following story by Andre Salles appeared on the Beacon News website on August 7.) CHICAGO — The battle over Canadian National Railway Corporation’s plan to buy the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern rail line could be headed to court soon. On Wednesday, CN announced...
