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A managed affiliate of OmniTRAX, Inc. and the Topflight Grain Cooperative, Inc., located in Illinois, are entering into a joint venture to operate, market and rehabilitate a Topflight rail line, now
Kansas City Southern (KCS) has reported revenues of $569 million for the 2016 second quarter, a 3 percent decrease compared to revenues in the second quarter of 2015. When excluding estimated impacts of lower U.S.
The Association of American Railroads (AAR) has reported that U.S. rail traffic for the week ending July 16, 2016, totaled 520,222 carloads and intermodal units, a 5.6 percent decrease compared to the same week in 2015.
Genesee & Wyoming Inc. (G&W) has reported a decrease of 5.5 percent, or 40,956 carloads, in the second quarter of 2016 compared to the 2015 second quarter. Carloads totaled 706,916.
On July 25, Caltrain, the provider of commuter rail service along the San Francisco Peninsula, will be replacing some of its five-car Gallery train sets with six-car Bombardier train sets.
Indiana Rail Road Company (INRD) officials hosted a recent ribbon-cutting ceremony to officially open the railroad’s new Merom Transload, a rail-to-truck transload that will enable customers in the Wabash Valley to benefit from long-haul rail coupled with short-haul trucking.
The Board of Directors of Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) has reached an agreement with president and chief operating officer Keith Creel, who will become president and chief executive officer on July 1, 2017. In addition, CP has reached a three-year, post-retirement consulting agreement with E.
FirstGroup plc subsidiary First Transit, which provides transportation contract and management services, has been awarded a contract by