May 17, 2007 | Headlines, Short Line
(The following story by Jeff Ostrowski appeared on the Palm Beach Post website on May 17.) BOCA RATON, Fla. — The executives who control the railway laid by Henry Flagler should have driven a harder bargain with a buyout firm, a shareholder lawsuit says. A Nevada...
May 14, 2007 | Headlines, Short Line
(The following story by Linda Halstead-Acharya appeared on the Billings Gazette website on May 13. Doug Hedges and Steve Miller are members of BLET Division 232 in Laurel, Mont.) BILLINGS, Mont. — When the train rolled out of Laurel, hauling 105 carloads of corn,...
May 14, 2007 | Headlines, Short Line
(The following story by Linda Halstead-Acharya appeared on the Billings Gazette website on May 13. Steve Miller is a member of BLET Division 232 in Laurel, Mont.) Steve Miller is 52 and beginning to think about the end of the line. A career railroader, the Montana...
May 11, 2007 | Headlines, Short Line
(The Associated Press circulated the following on May 11.) GREENWICH, Conn. — Short line and regional freight railroad operator Genesee & Wyoming Inc. said Friday its same-railroad traffic in April declined 6.8 percent, as the company hauled less coal, coke and...
May 9, 2007 | Headlines, Short Line
(Bloomberg News circulated the following story by David Mildenberg on May 8.) ATLANTA — Fortress Investment Group LLC, the first U.S. manager of private equity and hedge funds to go public, agreed to buy real estate developer and railroad operator Florida East Coast...
May 4, 2007 | Headlines, Short Line, Technology
(The following report by Steve Kemme appeared on the Cincinnati Enquirer website on May 4.) LOVELAND, Ohio — Ohio’s first four-light and four-gate railroad crossing, designed to improve safety and to make the crossing quieter, will be activated today in...
April 30, 2007 | Headlines, Short Line
(The Associated Press circulated the following on April 29.) NORTH BERGEN, N.J. — The state Department of Community Affairs Friday has closed three trash transfer sites in Hudson County run by a railroad for fire safety violations. The DCA cited the three...
April 26, 2007 | Headlines, Short Line
(The following story by Crystal Lindell appeared on the Capital Journal website on April 26.) PIERRE, S.D. — Gov. Mike Rounds thinks it is only a matter of time before a regional railroad finds private funding to increase their services through South Dakota. The...
April 26, 2007 | Headlines, Short Line
(The following report by John Johnston appeared on the Boca Raton News website on April 26.) BOCA RATON, Fla. — In a further realignment of its management structure, RailAmerica, Inc., has announced it will reorganize from three business units into five operating...
April 24, 2007 | Headlines, Short Line
(The following story by Peter Harriman appeared on the Argus Leader website on April 22.) SIOUX CITY, S.D. — After two days of listening to presentations about how railroads helped develop and define the Dakotas more than a century ago, participants at the 39th annual...
