December 19, 2005 | Headlines, Short Line
(The following article by Mark Fischenich was posted on the Mankato Free Press website on December 19.) MANKATO, Minn. — The massive DM&E Railroad expansion — a project that alarmed many Mankato residents eight years ago with its prospects for dozens of...
December 15, 2005 | Accident, Headlines, Short Line
(The following article by Jack Moran was posted on the Register-Guard website on December 13.) EUGENE, Ore. — A Roseburg-based railroad carrier has two years to implement a maintenance and inspection plan aimed at eliminating track defects that have caused at...
December 14, 2005 | Headlines, Short Line
(The following article by Peter J. Sampson was posted on the Bergen Record website on December 14.) NEWARK, N.J. — A state official testified Tuesday that the enclosed waste-transfer stations the New York Susquehanna & Western Railway Corp. is building in...
November 28, 2005 | Accident, Headlines, Short Line
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on November 28.) RIDGEFIELD PARK, N.J. — Nearly 2,500 gallons of diesel fuel spilled into the Hackensack River this weekend after a parked locomotive sprang a leak. The spill caused an oil slick that spread...
November 11, 2005 | Headlines, Short Line
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on November 11.) RAPID CITY, S.D. — Senate records show that John Thune received in the neighborhood of $220,000 in lobbying fees from the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad before he was elected to...
November 9, 2005 | Headlines, Short Line
(The following article by Leta Nolan Childers was posted on the Capital Journal website on November 9.) PIERRE, S.D. — Traffic at the “S” curve on Sioux Avenue will never look the same once the street is changed to accommodate increased traffic by Dakota,...
November 9, 2005 | Headlines, Short Line
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on November 8.) STURGIS, S.D. — The Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad will work with landowners and cities as it works to expand and improve its route, the head of the Sioux Fall-based company said....
November 8, 2005 | Headlines, Short Line
(Reuters circulated the following article on November 7.) NEW YORK — The biggest U.S. railroad project in a century could get under way next year and ease transport constraints from the primary U.S. coal-mining region, a railroad executive said on Monday....
November 8, 2005 | Headlines, Short Line
(The Associated Press circulated the following article by Dennis Gale on November 8.) SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — If the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad’s application for a $2.5 billion federal loan for a three-year coal train project is approved and...
November 7, 2005 | Headlines, Short Line
(The following story by Peter Harriman appeared on the Argus Leader website on November 6.) SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Rail boss Kevin Schieffer and Sen. John Thune toured South Dakota on Saturday announcing a plan to seek a $2.5 billion federal loan to reconstruct...