May 17, 2011 | Headlines, KCS, Short Line
(Kansas City Southern issued the following press release on May 13, 2011.) KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Last week, KCS assistant vice president sales and marketing Darin Selby, Midwest Division general manager Chad Devenney and Southeast Division David Carroll attended the...
May 13, 2011 | Headlines, Short Line
(The following appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on May 12, 2011.) Last month, Genesee & Wyoming Inc.’s (GWI) subsidiary railroads handled 82,190 carloads, up 12.3 percent compared with April 2010 volume. Excluding 5,925 carloads from Australia’s...
May 5, 2011 | Headlines, Short Line
(The Associated Press circulated the following on May 4, 2011.) WEST BEND, Wisc. — A railroad executive charged with campaign finance violations has been scheduled to appear in a courtroom in West Bend on Thursday afternoon for a sentencing hearing. Wisconsin &...
April 29, 2011 | Headlines, Short Line
(The following appeared on The Journal of Commerce website on April 28, 2011.) Short line operator RailAmerica swung to a $4.1 million net gain in the first quarter from a $2.5 million loss in the 2010 period, another in a string of rebounding financial reports as the...
April 27, 2011 | CP, Headlines, Short Line
(The Associated Press circulated the following on April 26, 2011.) SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — A former Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad manager is suing the company’s Canadian owner, saying executives should have honored a preexisting deal that promised he...
April 26, 2011 | Headlines, Short Line
(The following appeared on The Times-Picayune website on April 25, 2011.) NEW ORLEANS — After opting last month not to sell a trio of antique Pullman railcars at the fire-sale price offered by a single bidder, board members of the New Orleans Public Belt Railroad on...
April 26, 2011 | Headlines, Short Line
(The following appeared on The Journal of Commerce website on April 21, 2011.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — North America’s small and regional railroads are enjoying a surge in traffic so far in 2011, with overall volume up 9 percent and some important cargoes growing by double...
April 8, 2011 | Headlines, Short Line
(The following appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on April 7, 2011.) On March 29, Sens. John Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) and Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) introduced the Short Line Railroad Rehabilitation and Investment Act of 2011 (S. 672), which would extend the...
April 7, 2011 | Headlines, Short Line
(The following appeared on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch website on April 4, 2011.) ST. LOUIS, Mo. — One day last month, a massive green locomotive and a string of railcars rolled out of the Anheuser-Busch brewery, passing the black iron gates and red brick buildings....
March 21, 2011 | Headlines, Short Line
(The following appeardd on the Bangor Daily News website on March 20, 2011.) BANGOR, Maine — The railroad industry’s ability to move huge volumes of goods over long distances is also its biggest enemy in Maine, where a dwindling manufacturing base means customers who...
