November 18, 2008 | Headlines, NS
(Reuters circulated the following story by Christopher Doering on November 17.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Surging U.S. ethanol production may force the industry to step up transport safety measures in the face of growing concern that communities are ill-prepared to deal with...
November 18, 2008 | CSX, Headlines, NS
(The following appeared at WNDU.com on November 17.) SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Eight men have been charged with stealing items from trains in northern Indiana. The defendants are John A. Frederick, Phillip A. Montorsi, Victor A. Montorsi, William J. Montorsi, Ryan P....
November 18, 2008 | Headlines, NS
(The following story by Michael Schroeder appeared on The Journal Gazette website on November 18.) FORT WAYNE, Ind. — On Monday night, the Fort Wayne-Allen County health board approved a local ordinance regulating railroad mobile camp car systems stopping in Allen...
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...
