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LETTER: Financial fears 

I DON'T know why we should be so grateful that the Bank of England has not raised interest rates, keeping them at 5%.

It's already...

Ready for the fall peak: TTX's confidence about car supply rests on a record investment in new cars that raises capacity, and on modification and maintenance programs that boost efficiency 

In the context of a TTX Co. annual record for intermodal deliveries, "we are not expecting equipment shortages this year," says Andrew F. Reardon,...

KCS in control 

AFTER A BUMPY BEGINNING, Kansas City Southern Railway's relatively new transportation operating platform, the Management Control System, is...

The North American passenger rail market 

INTERCITY PASSENGER RAIL SYSTEMS INTERCITY PASSENGER RAIL SYSTEMS Ridership continues to grow throughout Amtrak's 46-state, 22,000-route mile...

How the Chicago plan spells relief: Chicago's planned Passenger Express Corridor—designed by freight as well as passenger interests—will create fluidity for freight routes redesigned to improve rail service in, through, and beyond North America' 

How do you spell relief in Chicago? Echoing one of the rail industry's most critical concerns, that question recently headed a Norfolk Southern...

Portland's common sense approach: building trust with local citizens and funding providers, TriMet's practical approach to operations and extensions has ensured further growth for the 17-year-old MAX system - Metropolitan Area eXpress 

This past May, when he delivered a ceremonial check for $68.8 million, Federal Transit Deputy Administrator Robert Jamison said: "The FTA is...

How CPR defines scheduled railroading: an application of MultiRail service design software that helps manage shipments has enabled Canadian pacific railway to become a highly scheduled carrier and a more aggressive marketer, especially for truck cargo 

Forced by necessity as one of the smallest Class I railroads and the most dependent on connections with the others, Canadian Pacific Railway has...

Design for decongestion 

The name of the mammoth new Union Pacific intermodal yard in a town west of Chicago reflects much more than its lineage from Globals I and II back...

The Chicago plan: relief at last? Government and industry proponents hope that the prospect of better service nationwide will help to win a large federal contribution to a $1.5 billion unsnarling of the Chicago Terminal District, the biggest U.S. railroad 

It was perhaps the Windy City's greatest public love-in of elected officials and railroad representatives since the great Chicago Railroad Fair...

Chicago steers a capital course: among the oldest of all North American commuter rail systems, Metra and the South Shore Line draw vitality from capital renewal programs - Commuter Rail - Company Profile 

Except for a route opened in August 1996, most of chicago's commuter service has been in operation since the 1920s and some of it since the 1860s....