August 20, 2008 | Headlines, Short Line
(The following story by Clair Johnson appeared on the Billings Gazette website on August 20.) BILLINGS, Mont. — Construction of a long-anticipated railroad to carry coal from a mine near Roundup to Eastern and Western markets has begun near Broadview as Yellowstone...
August 18, 2008 | Headlines, Short Line
(The Associated Press circulated the following on August 17.) COOS BAY, Ore. — The Port of Coos Bay soon may own a 111-mile railroad. Trouble is, it has no experience in running one. It applied to the federal government to buy the Coos Bay tracks from Central Oregon...
August 18, 2008 | Accident, Headlines, Short Line
(The following story by Helen J. Simon appeared on the Burlington Free Press website on August 16.) BURLINGTON, Vt. — A derailment by a New England Central Railroad train in White River Junction closed the track for about six hours Friday and forced the busing of...
August 13, 2008 | Headlines, Short Line
(The Associated Press circulated the following on August 13.) GREENWICH, Conn. — Regional freight railroad operator Genesee & Wyoming Inc. said Wednesday its traffic fell 3 percent last month, mostly due to lower farm and food product shipments in Australia and...
August 12, 2008 | Headlines, Short Line
(The following story by Eric Francis appeared on the Rutland Herald website on August 12.) BRAINTREE, Vt. — Four miles of railroad tracks torn up by a relatively minor freight train derailment on Saturday night are now causing a major headache for both freight and...
August 11, 2008 | Headlines, Short Line
(The Associated Press circulated the following on August 11.) SEARCY, Ark. — A passageway to the past was opened in Searcy after construction workers found the remains of a railroad track that meandered through town 100 years ago. Johnny Brock Excavating and...
August 11, 2008 | Headlines, Short Line
(The following story by Dan Chapman appeared on The Atlanta Journal-Constitution website on August 10.) AMERICUS, Ga. — Locomotive 3109, with cracked mirrors and chipped paint, plodded across southwest Georgia last week, a slow, yet profitable workhorse in a...
August 6, 2008 | Headlines, Short Line
(The following appeared on the Deseret News website on August 6.) PRICE, Utah — A railroad company is offering a $10,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest in an arson on a railway bridge. The Utah Railway Co. is offering the reward after a fire Friday...
August 4, 2008 | Headlines, Short Line
(Genesee & Wyoming issued the following on August 4.) GREENWICH, Conn. — Genesee & Wyoming Inc. (GWI) (NYSE: GWR) announced today that it has signed an agreement to acquire nine short line railroads known as the Ohio Central Railroad System (OCR), for $219.0...
August 1, 2008 | Canada, Headlines, Short Line
(The following appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on July 31.) Last week, a new short line launched operations in Saskatchewan, Canada. Torch River Rail Inc. began to move trains between Nipawin and Choiceland. The Nipawin Region Economic Development...
