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Articles in June, 1996 issue of Railway Age

• GM will manage CN locomotive maintenance - General Motors Diesel Division; Canadian National Railway - Brief Article
• What's historic? Railroad industry strength of character - The Financial Edge - Railway Age 1876-1996: 120th Anniversary Issue - Column
  by Anthony Kruglinski
• ABC Rail Products acquires DECO - Deco Industries Inc - Brief Article
• Car fleet pays off for Pioneer Railcorp - reports 56% increase in car-hire revenues for 1st qtr 1996 - Brief Article
• $1 billion rail link approved for JFK - John F. Kennedy International Airport - Brief Article
• Mexico: privatizing for growth - Railway Age 1876-1996: 120th Anniversary Issue
  by Luis de Pablo Serna
• People - includes multiple briefs on executive appointments
• Helm Financial Corp - awards $8 million contract to MK Rail for locomotive overhaul - Brief Article
• EMD and GATX form joint leasing venture - General Motors Electro-Motive Division and GATX Capital Corp. form Locomotive Leasing Partners - Brief Article
• Marathon bargaining heads toward conclusion - railroad labor-management bargaining
• Atlanta's MARTA - Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority in Atlanta, Georgia, becomes first rail transit system to accept stored value cash cards - Brief Article
• Technology's double payoff: efficiency and safety - Railway Age 1876-1996: 120th Anniversary Issue
  by Jerry R. Davis
• 120 years of passengers by rail - Railway Age 1876-1996: 120th Anniversary Issue
  by William D. Middleton
• Italian and Polish railways - establish new company called Polrail to develop intermodal freight traffic between two countries - Brief Article
• The "good old days" weren't. Are things better now? - railroad industry labor relations - Railway Age 1876-1996: 120th Anniversary Issue - Column
  by Gus Welty
• BNSF, Wabash National unveil AllRailer - Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad and Wabash National introduce multi-level motor-vehicle carrier - Brief Article
• Freight car orders in modest rebound - Brief Article
• Denver wins funding for new light rail line - Denver, Colorado - Brief Article
• Let's keep politics out of safety - Railway Age 1876-1996: 120th Anniversary Issue
  by Mike Haverty
• Track panel shift demonstration testing
• Cargill - acquires 481 Grainporter hopper cars from Johnstown America - Brief Article
• CSX Transportation adds 42 a.c.-traction units to locomotive fleet - Brief Article
• T.C. Johnson Co - acquires assets of Benfield Manufacturing Co - Brief Article
• Chicago Transit Authority reopens portion of rebuilt Green Line - Brief Article
• Investing for safety and customer service - Railway Age 1876-1996: 120th Anniversary Issue
  by Ron Burns
• From semaphores to semiconductors - railroad communication and signalling - Railway Age 1876-1996: 120th Anniversary Issue
  by William C. Vantuono
• Germany's Nurembergerfurt - high-speed train line under construction - Brief Article
• NJ Transit - awards contracts to Ascom Automation, De Leuw, Cather & Co., Steinman Boynton Gronquist & Birdsall - Brief Article
• DM&E absorbs UP's Colony line - Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad; Union Pacific - Brief Article
• Short lines join "Conrail Express." - railroad feeder system - Brief Article
• Metrolink - St. Louis, Missouri, light rail system to get six new vehicles - Brief Article
• Intermodal's elusive ingredient: profit - Railway Age 1876-1996: 120th Anniversary Issue
  by Paul Tellier
• Preserving our railway heritage - Railway Age 1876-1996: 120th Anniversary Issue
  by William C. Vantuono
• The Netherlands government - to finance 95% of new light rail line connecting Amsterdam's Central Station and Ijburg - Brief Article
• E-p brakes will undergo unit coal train tests - TSM electro-pneumatic brake systems - Brief Article
• Dallas light rail: sound planning, sound pricing - Dallas, Texas - Column
  by William C. Vantuono
• First Union Rail Corp - to purchase Rail Services assets of USL Capital - Brief Article
• Multi-user terminal studied for Twin Cities - intermodal rail terminal planned in Minnesota - Brief Article
• Profitability: earning our cost of capital - Railway Age 1876-1996: 120th Anniversary Issue
  by Robert D. Krebs
• Preserving passenger railroading - Railway Age 1876-1996: 120th Anniversary Issue
  by Thomas M. Downs
• China's Ministry of Railways - to invest $36.5 billion in upgrades and new lines - Brief Article
• Amtrak - awards contract to Quest Corp - Brief Article
• BNSF to expand northern capacity; realigns three business units - Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad - Brief Article
• Harmon Industries - reports net earnings of $2.1 million in 1st qtr 1996 - Brief Article
• Puerto Rico's Tren Urbano project goes to Siemens - Siemens Transit Team wins contract for heavy rail system - Brief Article
• Putting the operating ratio in perspective - Railway Age 1876-1996: 120th Anniversary Issue
  by E. Hunter Harrison
• Track: when it pays to pay premium - Railway Age 1876-1996: 120th Anniversary Issue
  by Robert E. Tuzik
• Belarussian Railway - loses 60% of freight traffic and 20% of passenger traffic since independence of Belarus - Brief Article
• Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority - awards contract to Booz, Allen & Hamilton for technical services - Brief Article
• NIT League rejects UP peace offer; UP and SP respond to merger critics - National Industrial Transportation League; Union Pacific Railroad; Southern Pacific Rail Corp
• MK Rail forges lease agreement with Helm - Helm Financial Corp - Brief Article
• NYMTA revises capital plan financing - New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority - Brief Article
• Building a 21st century railroad - Railway Age 1876-1996: 120th Anniversary Issue
  by A.R. Carpenter
• What, another railroad journal? - includes letter from Pres. Clinton - Railway Age 1876-1996: 120th Anniversary Issue
  by Luther S. Miller
• Railtrack - awards parallel contracts for signaling and control system to ADtranz/Westinghouse Signals and GRC Alsthom/Siemens - Brief Article
• Amtrak to expand Genesis fleet by 98 units - Genesis diesel-electric locomotives - Brief Article
• The Hours of Service issue: safety or quality of life? - Column
  by Gus Welty
• American Systems Technologies - signs construction and maintenance contract with Iowa Interstate Railroad - Brief Article
• New health monitoring from EMD, Rockwell - Union Pacific's 125 new locomotives to have latest diagnostic tools from Electro-Motive Division and Rockwell - Brief Article
• Pruning and improving the equipment fleet - Railway Age 1876-1996: 120th Anniversary Issue
  by David R. Goode
• Freight cars: the evolution continues - Railway Age 1876-1996: 120th Anniversary Issue
  by Gus Welty
• Beijing Nankou SKF Railway Bearings Co - new joint venture of SKF and subsidiary of Chinese Railways - Brief Article
• STB approves IC acquisition of CCP holdings - Surface Transportation Board; Illinois Central Railroad Co.; CCP Holdings Inc - Brief Article
• Figuring U.S. rails unsafe, U.S. News misfigures - wildly - criticism of U.S. News article on railroad safety
  by Gus Welty
• Rescar - acquires railcar maintenance facility at Hudson, Colorado - Brief Article
• US&S seeks European partners - Union Switch and Signal - Brief Article
• It's time to pull the growth lever - Railway Age 1876-1996: 120th Anniversary Issue
  by David M. LeVan
• Diesels reign supreme; will they always? - Railway Age 1876-1996: 120th Anniversary Issue
  by Gus Welty
• The Russian company SFAT - to increase its tank car fleet to 7,000 cars with $42 million financing package from European Bank for Reconstruction and Development - Brief Article