February 14, 2008 | Headlines, Short Line
(The Associated Press circulated the following on February 13.) FLORENCE, Ore. — Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski has turned down a railroad company’s request for state aid to repair tunnels along a 120-mile stretch of Coast Range track it has closed. The owners of...
February 13, 2008 | Headlines, Short Line
(The following column by Scott Saylor appeared on the News-Record website on February 13. Mr. Saylor is president of North Carolina Railroad Co.) GREENSBORO, N.C. — Just a few weeks ago, Congress, for the first time in 32 years, increased vehicle fuel-economy...
February 12, 2008 | Headlines, Short Line
(The following story by Kris Bevill appeared on the Biodiesel Magazine website on February 12.) A steady supply of affordable biodiesel is hard to come by in the Pacific Northwest. That’s why Green Diesel Inc. has decided to make its own. The subsidiary of Tri-City...
January 30, 2008 | Headlines, Short Line
(The Associated Press circulated the following on January 29.) SALEM, Ore. — Gov. Ted Kulongoski has told railroad officials that Oregon will consider helping with repair costs to the 120-mile rail line between Coquille and Eugene, but only after the repairs have been...
January 29, 2008 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, Short Line
(The following column by Scott Saylor appeared on the Charlotte News & Observer website on January 29. Saylor is president of the North Carolina Railroad Co. This article is adopted from a talk he gave recently to the North Carolina 21st Century Transportation...
January 28, 2008 | Headlines, Short Line
(The following story by Tim Hahn appeared at GoErie.com on January 28.) MEADVILLE, Pa. — William Burt said he couldn’t fault the skeptics when they questioned whether his New York-based railroad could build business on 41.8 miles of Pennsylvania track. The...
January 21, 2008 | Headlines, Short Line
(The following story by Tom Palmer appeared on The Ledger website on January 19.) BARTOW, Fla. — Evansville Western Railway’s development of a regional impact application for a rail freight terminal in Winter Haven is missing some key information on traffic,...
January 18, 2008 | Headlines, Short Line
(The following story by Tim Moran appeared on the Modesto Bee website on January 18.) MODESTO, Calif. — Stanislaus County and PCCP West Park LLC formally asked the state for $26 million Thursday to build a short- haul railroad and inland port near Crows Landing. The...
January 17, 2008 | Accident, Headlines, Short Line
(The following story by Marci Piltz appeared on the Bedford Record-Courier website on January 17.) SUFFIELD, Ohio — Five railroad cars carrying crude oil to a transfer station in Akron derailed early Wednesday on the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway line in the...
January 16, 2008 | Headlines, Short Line
(The following story by Jonathan Nelson appeared on The Columbian website on January 15.) COLUMBIA, Wash. — The tracks on the 33-mile Chel atchie Prairie Railroad are still woefully inadequate and an operator for the southern portion of the line continues to lose...
