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Articles in Oct, 1994 issue of Railway Age
- The first of 80 new BART cars - first batch of Bay Area Rapid Transit cars given to BART agency by Morrison-Knudsen - Brief Article
- San Juan appoints light rail consultant team - San Juan, Puerto Rico's Tren Urbano $935 million light rail; construction management awarded to Frederic R. Harris Inc - Industry Outlook - Brief Article
- Tri-Met - Portland, Ore - signaling and trail control equipment contract awarded to Union Switch and Signal - Brief Article
- CP maps major locomotive program - CP Rail to buy 40 new locomtives in 1995, totalling 200 by 1998 - Rail Update - Brief Article
- Canadian shippers fear CP-CN deal - CP Rail's $1 billion bid to buy the eastern lines of CN North - Brief Article
- Detroit Diesel Corp and MTU Motoren Und Turbinen-Union Friedrichschafen GMBH - agree on contracts for the development, production, and distribution of heavy-duty diesel engines in non-highway markets - Brief Article
- Amtrak's Chicago-Washington 'Capitol Limited.' - service will begin operations with Superliner cars on Oct 30, 1994 - Brief Article
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Denver welcomes light rail - includes related article
by William D. Middleton - South Korea's - planning railroads linking North and South Korea - Brief Article
- Futuris Industrial Products Pty. Ltd - signs contract with Indian Railways - Brief Article
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Canada's railroads map trans-border growth strategy - Special Report: Railroads of Mexico, the U.S., and Canada - includes Spanish translation
by Greg Gormick - US&S creates control systems unit - Union Switch & Signal's new Pittsburgh, PA, Control Systems Division - Industry Outlook - Brief Article
- Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority - gives engineering consulting contract to Parsons Brinckerhoff/Tudor and Turner Associates joint venture - Brief Article
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Drawing a new national railroad map - Watching Washington - Column
by Gus Welty - Raytheon seeks to build railcars at Fall River - Raytheon Corp. will establish passenger railcar manufacturing plant in Massachusetts - Brief Article
- D'Accord Financial Services Inc - arranges rail equipment lease for Queensland Railways and advises TTX in financing lease for intermodal cars - Brief Article
- Bombardier to open plant at Plattsburgh, N.Y - Plattsburgh Air Force Base - Brief Article
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Marketing strategies that work - short lines
by Roy H. Blanchard - People - includes multiple briefs on executive appointments
- Indian Railways - receives responses to planned 'Palace on Wheels' trains - Brief Article
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FNM rebuilds and upgrades to meet NAFTA challenges - National Railways of Mexico; North American Free Trade Agreement - includes related article on the FNM management - Special Report: Railroads of Mexico, the U.S., and Canada - includes Spanish translati
by William D. Middleton - Conrail and MBTA: a landmark liability agreement - Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority; insurance for MBTA use of Conrail freight track lines for commuter passenger service - Industry Outlook - Brief Article
- Metro-North - order placed with Bombardier for $43 million - Brief Article
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One man's lessons for success - Paul Tatro - Column - Obituary
by Anthony Kruglinski - New from Thrall: the Super Avalanche - Thrall Car Manufacturing introduces a new aluminum automatic-discharge coal hopper car - Brief Article
- Parsec Inc - now operates intermodal ramps of Florida East Coast in Jacksonville, Fort Pierce, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, and Miami in Florida - Brief Article
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At Jacksonville, a breakthrough for monorail - planned transit system in Jacksonville, FL
by William D. Middleton -
RoadRailer hits the big time - Wabash National's bimodal vehicle division - Bimodal's Growing Intermodal Role
by William C. Vantuono -
Freight and passengers: a murky mix
by Thomas J. Fitzgerald - Siemens Transportation Systems - to build rail link between Heathrow and London Paddington airports - Brief Article
- The Amazon Investment Fund - invests $335 million in Brazil's East-West Rairlroad - Brief Article
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Honoring two great Americans: W. Graham Claytor, Jr., and Claiborne Pell - Editorial
by Arthur J. McGinnis, Jr. - Chrysler unit explores sale of railcar fleet - Chrysler Capital Income Partners, L.P - Industry Outlook - Brief Article
- New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority - contract given to Cubic Automatic Revenue Collection Group for automatic fare collection system - Brief Article
- AAR takes issue with EPA emissions plan - Association of American Railroads objects to US Environmental Protection Agency's 70% air pollution reduction mandate for the Southern California Air Basin - Rail Update - Brief Article
- TTX wins 10-year pooling extension - Interstate Commerce Commission has granted TTX and member railroads a ten-year extension for their flatcar pooling agreement - Brief Article
- Transmode's - computerized train planning and scheduling system PROTIM is adopted by Long Island Rail Road - Brief Article
- De Leuw, Cather sees big market in China - transportation engineering firm De Leuw, Cather & Co - Brief Article
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C&NW, BN, UP play catch-up: capacity problems in the Powder River Basin - Chicago and North Western, Burlington Northern and Union Pacific railroads
by Gus Welty - Parsons Brinckerhoff - planning new rail link in Vietnam - Brief Article
- The European Investment Bank - will lend funding to Spanish National Railways - Brief Article
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U.S. railroads are forging stronger connections - Special Report: Railroads of Mexico, the U.S., and Canada - includes Spanish translation
by Gus Welty -
An intermodal learning experience - Railway Age 2nd Annual Intermodal Roundtable - Column
by Luther S. Miller - GE Capital Railcar Services - places order with Thrall Car for 200 pressure differential cars - Brief Article
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The bottom line is jobs-not "getting even." - railroads and labor should compromise at Nov. 1, 1994 contract negotiations in order to keep the industry profitable - Column
by Gus Welty - "Independent" Conrail gets new president - David LeVan; portends halt to Norfolk Southern merger talks - Rail Update - Brief Article
- For Timken, two new offerings, and a milestone - Timken Co. produces its ten millionth All-Purpose tapered roller, re-engineered as the AP-2; development of prototype generator tapered roller bearing - Brief Article
- Virginia studies rail link to Dulles Airport - Virginia Dept. of Rail and Public Transportation study of proposed 13-mile rail line connecting airport with Metrorail Orange Line of Washington Metro - Brief Article
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What do customers really want? - includes related articles - Railway Age's Intermodal Roundtable - Panel Discussion - Industry Overview
by Gus Welty -
Denver's light rail system: vital statistics
by William D. Middleton - A consortium of local authorities in Britain - plan railroad upgrade - Brief Article
- Cummins Engine Company Ltd - provides to Turkish Railways a 700-hp K Series KTTA 19L engine in prototype Tulomsas DH7000 diesel-hydraulic switcher - Brief Article
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