December 22, 2003 | Headlines, Short Line
(The Atlanta Business Chronicle posted the following article on its website on December 22.) ATLANTA — Atlanta-based Georgia-Pacific Corp. plans to sell three short-line railroads to Genesee & Wyoming Inc. for $55.6 million. As part of the agreement,...
December 22, 2003 | Headlines, Short Line
(The Associated Press distributed the following article on December 22.) GARDEN CITY, Kan. — Cutbacks in rural rail transportation could increase the cost of Kansas wheat as well as maintenance costs for roads, some officials warn. About 335 miles of railway in...
December 12, 2003 | Headlines, Short Line
(The Associated Press distributed the following article on December 12.) SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Rail service was characterized Thursday as an efficient transportation system in need of money to upgrade tracks and equipment. Many short-line railroads are operating...
December 4, 2003 | Headlines, Short Line
(The following article by Bill Toland was posted on the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette website on December 4.) HARRISBURG, Pa. — Like their larger cousins, short-line railroad companies face mounting terrorism-related safety costs, but unlike the Norfolk Southerns of...
December 2, 2003 | Headlines, Short Line
(RailAmerica issued the following news release on November 26.) BOCA RATON, Fla. — RailAmerica, Inc. announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire the assets of the Bay City, Michigan-based Central Michigan Railway Company (CMGN). CMGN, which...
December 2, 2003 | Headlines, Short Line, UP
(The following story by John Dickey appeared on the Appeal-Democrat website on December 2.) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — When rail lines are removed from Bridge Street, one of the last remaining pieces of a railway system that served the area for much of the 20th...
December 1, 2003 | Headlines, Short Line
(The following story by Jeff Himler appeared on the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review website on November 28.) INDIANA, Pa. — Buffalo & Pittsburgh Railroad is preparing to pull out of the station with plans for a coal route through this central Indiana County town,...
November 25, 2003 | Headlines, Short Line
(The following story by Michael Kerr appeared on the Beaufort Gazette website on November 24.) BEAUFORT, S.C. — A train will barrel down the tracks between the Port of Port Royal and Yemassee for the last time Wednesday, as Beaufort County’s only rail...
November 13, 2003 | Headlines, Short Line
(The following story by Bill Steward appeared on the Oregonian website on November 13.) VANCOUVER — Clark County’s taxpayer-owned railroad Lewis & Clark, on life support for years, may be getting a dinner train and an operator with an aggressive plan...
November 12, 2003 | Headlines, Short Line
(The following report by Randy Wells appeared on the Indiana Gazette website on November 11.) INDIANA, Pa. — By next summer, something that hasn’t happened in Indiana in more than a decade may be a daily occurrence again. Coal trains may be rolling through...
