November 17, 2008 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, NS
(The following story by Frank T. Reilly appeared on the Echoes-Sentinel website on November 14.) LONG HILL TWP., N.J. — One-hundred twenty-six years of freight service on the NJ Transit Gladstone Branch came to an end on Friday morning, Nov. 7, when Norfolk Southern...
November 14, 2008 | CSX, Headlines, NS
(The following story by Mark Szakonyi appeared on the Jacksonville Business Journal website on November 13.) JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — CSX Corp. is taking a different approach to the government. For years, the railroad industry wanted to keep government out of its affairs....
November 14, 2008 | Headlines, NS
(The following story by Kathy Adams appeared on The Virginian-Pilot website on November 14.) PORTSMOUTH, Va. — The perfect storm of events that caused a surge in coal prices and international demand this year – and boosted activity at the port of Hampton Roads...
November 12, 2008 | Headlines, NS
(The following appeared on the Toledo Blade website on November 11.) TOLEDO, Ohio — The estate of an Adrian truck driver, who died in an April, 2006, crash with a train, was not awarded any money by a Lucas County Common Pleas Court jury, which decided that Daniel...
November 10, 2008 | CSX, Headlines, NS
(The following story by Cara Bailey appeared on the West Virginia Record website on November 9.) CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Pittsburgh attorney Robert Daley recently filed 900 wrongful death and asbestos lawsuits in one day in Kanawha Circuit Court against two national...
November 7, 2008 | Headlines, NS
(The following column appeared at Seeking Alpha.com on November 6.) The next industry to get hit is railroads — unlike financials, this will not happen overnight. Until now, equity value of railroad operators has, for the most part, been preserved. However,...
October 30, 2008 | Headlines, NS
(The following story by David Patch appeared on the Toledo Blade website on October 30.) TOLEDO, Ohio — The existing Norfolk Southern intermodal terminal in South Toledo should become the focus of a concerted local effort to expand freight warehousing and logistics...
October 29, 2008 | Headlines, NS
(The following story by Dan Galindo appeared on the Journal Reporter website on October 28.) WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — No one was injured in an incident in which a school bus was stranded briefly on railroad tracks this afternoon, a Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools...
October 27, 2008 | Headlines, NS
(The following story by Michael Laris appeared on the Washington Post website on October 26.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The national push to wean the country from imported fuel by adding American-brewed ethanol to gasoline has come at a cost: The flammable liquid is being...
October 27, 2008 | Headlines, NS
(The following story by Tom Dochat appeared on The Patriot-News website on October 26.) BOSTON — Dan Cupper has loved trains since he was 3. When he was a reporter at The Patriot-News, he covered transportation issues that often allowed him to explore his passion for...
