September 10, 2007 | CP, Headlines, Short Line
(The following story by Peter Harriman appeared on the Argus Leaders website on September 9.) SIOUX CITY, S.D. — For farmers and ethanol producers in South Dakota, a map of the merged Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad and the Canadian Pacific Railway offers as...
September 7, 2007 | CP, Headlines, Short Line
(The following story by Jeffrey Pieters appeared on the Post-Bulletin website on September 1.) ROCHESTER, Minn. — Twenty-one years ago yesterday — Sept. 5, 1986 — the first Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad left the station. The departure time was...
September 7, 2007 | CP, Headlines, Short Line
(The following story by Jeffrey Pieters appeared on the Post-Bulletin website on September 7.) ROCHESTER, Minn. — Nine years of occasional negotiation — laced with more frequent bouts of public sparring — have given Rochester-area officials this picture of...
August 30, 2007 | Headlines, Short Line
(RailAmerica issued the following on August 29.) BOCA RATON, Fla. — RailAmerica, Inc., a leading operator of regional and short line roads, announced that Josh Putterman was named Assistant Vice President and Darryl Gabriel was named Regional Chief Engineer effective...
August 28, 2007 | Headlines, Short Line
(The following story by Bennett Hall appeared on the Corvallis Gazette-Times website on August 28.) CORVALLIS, Ore. — Two months after the Willamette & Pacific Railroad halted service on a dilapidated stretch or track in south Benton County, several shippers have...
August 23, 2007 | Headlines, Short Line
(The following editorial appeared on the Montgomery Advertiser website on August 22.) MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Meridian & Bigbee Railroad’s recent safety record, which includes seven derailments in the first five months of this year and another this past...
August 22, 2007 | Headlines, Short Line
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Chet Brokaw on August 22.) PIERRE, S.D. — New rules that likely will help determine whether the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad (DM&E) can use eminent domain to acquire land for its proposed expansion...
August 21, 2007 | FRA, Headlines, Short Line
(The following report appeared on the Montgomery Advertiser website on August 21.) MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A railroad company that had a train derailment near Selma this weekend has had more accidents in the first five months of this year than it did for all of 2002-2005....
August 16, 2007 | Headlines, Short Line
(The following story appeared on The Cooperstown Crier website on August 16.) COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — Walter Rich, chairman of the board of Delaware Otsego-Corp. of Cooperstown, the New York Susquehanna & Western Railway and Central New York Railroad, died at home in...
August 15, 2007 | Headlines, Short Line
(The following story by Kevin Woster appeared on the Rapid City Journal website on August 14.) RAPID CITY — A Wasta rancher wants financial compensation for damage to his property caused by an Aug. 1 fire that apparently started in a railroad car on the Dakota,...
