June 10, 2015 | Headlines, Short Line
(Source: Billings Gazette, June 9, 2015) BILLINGS, Mont. — Those who would be neighbors of what could become the country’s largest coal mine near Ashland gave an earful Monday to federal regulators who are reviewing plans for the railroad tied to it. Full story:...
May 29, 2015 | FRA, Headlines, Short Line
(Source: Federal Railroad Administration press release, May 28, 2015) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) today issued a $6.8 million Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing (RRIF) loan to the Arkansas and Missouri Railroad...
May 21, 2015 | BNSF, Headlines, Short Line
(Source: Billings Gazette, May 20, 2015) BILLINGS, Mont. — Rancher Clint McRae says he has spent the past 30 years worried the government would take his southeast Montana land and give it to a coal railroad. Full story: www.missoulian.com
May 20, 2015 | Headlines, Short Line
(Source: Railway Track & Structures, May 19, 2015) NEW YORK — Watco Companies purchased two west Texas shortlines from Iowa Pacific Holdings, LLC, May 18, 2015. Watco Transportation Services (WTS) entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the Texas and New...
May 15, 2015 | Headlines, Short Line
(Source: The Olympian, May 15, 2015) OLYMPIA, Wash. — Tacoma Rail’s presence in Thurston County may have reached the end of the line after an engine was damaged by a concrete block on the tracks last summer in Tumwater. The random act of vandalism by a still-unknown...
April 29, 2015 | Accident, Headlines, Short Line
(Source: Albuquerque Journal, April 28, 2015) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two freight trains collided head-on just after 6 a.m. Tuesday about 10 miles southeast of Roswell, killing one person, injuring another and derailing locomotives and freight cars. Crew member Jesse T....
April 13, 2015 | CSX, Headlines, Short Line
(Source: CSX press release, April 10, 2015) CHICAGO, Ill. and JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Anacostia Rail Holdings (ARH) and CSX today announced that the U.S. Surface Transportation Board has approved a joint proposal by ARH’s subsidiary, Louisville & Indiana Railroad...
April 10, 2015 | Headlines, Oil Train, Short Line
(Source: Associated Press, April 10, 2015) ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Alaska Railroad says supplying oilfield activity on Alaska’s North Slope helped offset revenue losses in 2014 from the closure of the North Pole refinery. Full story: Houston...
March 11, 2015 | Headlines, Short Line
(Source: Post-Tribune, March 11, 2015) CHICAGO — The U.S. government claims an Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad train started a 2012 brush fire that burned almost 400 acres in the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore and damaged a butterfly habitat. Full story: Chicago...
March 3, 2015 | Headlines, Short Line
(Source: Salina Journal, March 3, 2015) BEARDSLEY, Kan. — Until Jan. 19, R.J. Sabatka had two choices for transporting farm commodities to market from Beardsley Co-op in western Rawlins County — rail and truck. For the past 40 years, he said, 90 percent of the wheat...
