January 14, 2010 | Headlines, Short Line
(The following appeared at MarketWatch.com on January 13, 2010.) LONDON — Railroad operator Genesee & Wyoming said December carload traffic fell 11% to 61,917, with fourth-quarter traffic down 15%. Coal, coke and ores traffic fell on lower shipments from its...
January 14, 2010 | Headlines, Short Line
(The following story by Betsy Cohen appeared on the Missoulian website on January 14, 2010.) MISSOULA, Mont. — Smurfit-Stone Container Corp.’s recent decision to close its Frenchtown linerboard plant has resulted in 46 layoffs at Montana Rail Link. The...
January 11, 2010 | Headlines, Short Line
(The Associated Press circulated the following on January 9, 2010.) PADUCAH, Ky. — Paducah & Louisville Railway is looking for incentives to build a new headquarters in downtown Paducah rather than move to one of the other cities where it does business. Railroad...
January 8, 2010 | Headlines, Short Line
(The Associated Press circulated the following on January 7, 2010.) ROSEBURG, Ore. — A California-based rail group has asked the federal Surface Transportation Board to defer making a ruling on a petition to have West Texas and Lubbock Railway operate the 218-mile...
January 7, 2010 | Headlines, Short Line
(The following story by Greg Stiles appeared on the Mail Tribune website on January 7, 2010.) MEDFORD, Ore. — A push by local freight shippers and Oregon’s congressional delegation to get federal regulatory backing for a new rail service provider for the...
January 6, 2010 | Headlines, Short Line
(The following story by James Loewenstein appeared on the Daily Review website on January 6, 2010.) TOWANDA, N.Y. — The Reading Blue Mountain & Northern Railroad has purchased the company that provides rail service on the six-mile line between Towanda Borough and...
January 5, 2010 | Headlines, Short Line
(The following column by Rick Holmes appeared on The Taunton Gazette website on January 4, 2010.) TAUNTON, Mass. — When I first moved to Upton back in the mid-1980s, the train still rattled through town once a week. I remember walking my kids, just toddlers then,...
December 11, 2009 | Headlines, Short Line
(The following appeared on the Hudson Reporter website on December 10, 2009.) HOBOKEN, N.J. — Since July, nine Mercedes-Benz SUVs have been stolen from North Bergen railroad parking lot, where they are kept after a train drops them off to be delivered to a dealership....
December 11, 2009 | Headlines, Short Line
(Associated Press circulated the following on December 11, 2009.) GREENWICH, Conn. — Genesee & Wyoming Inc., a regional freight railroad operator, said Friday its November traffic slid 11.9 percent partly because of lower shipments its New York-Ohio-Pennsylvania...
November 13, 2009 | Headlines, Short Line
(The following story by Jeff Stagl appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on November 12, 2009.) The American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association’s (ASLRRA) months-long effort to line up congressional supporters for the Short Line Rehabilitation Tax...
