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short line - Coverage from 2011 on Progressive Railroading
Freight News
- Watco forms compliance services division
- ASLRRA: Tax credit extension measure won't be in place by year's end
- Watco assigns Rhodes, Cathey to short-line GM posts
- BNSF, Watco make upper management changes
- Short-line tax credit extension bill racks up majority of House supporters
- Watco to acquire controlling interest in Wisconsin & Southern, operate new Wyoming short line
- Modesto & Empire Traction turns 100; Arkansas & Missouri turns 25
- STB issues final environmental report for R.J. Corman's proposed Pennsylvania project
- Iowa Transportation Commission provides loans, grants for nine rail projects
- Genesee & Wyoming sets income, revenue and operating ratio records
- EPA grant to help Alabama port authority repower short line's switcher
- Short-line tax credit extension bills continue to garner congressional support, ASLRRA says
- RailAmerica ramps up revenue, income
- Patriot Rail, CF Rail Services forge rolling stock services pact
- Watco: Cox to head engineering, Williams to help manage short line
- September carloads up for Genesee & Wyoming, down for RailAmerica
- Pacific Harbor Line to add low-emission engines to 16 locomotives
- Patriot Rail boots up revamped website
- Patriot Rail develops transload facility for Louisiana short line
- Big Sky Rail becomes Saskatchewan's newest short line
- Iowa Pacific Holdings to upgrade Texas-New Mexico's track, motive power
- U.S., Canadian politicians praise benefits of government-funded rail projects
- Northern Lines Railway, Watco make management changes
- Volume up for Genesee & Wyoming, down for RailAmerica in August
- New England Central closer to restoring hurricane-damaged network
- Cimarron Valley Railroad to replace six wildfire-damaged bridges
- Pennsylvania authority receives remainder of TIGER II grant for rail upgrades
- Genesee & Wyoming completes Arizona Eastern acquisition
- Indiana Rail Road begins to build locomotive shop
- Small railroads boosted carloads in year's 33rd week, RMI index shows
- RailAmerica entices shippers to build, expand plants along its lines
- ARG Trans inks interim operator contract, assigns GM for Oregon line
- Iowa small roads to receive federal grants for flood-damage repairs
- Genesee & Wyoming's carloads climbed, RailAmerica's fell in July
- Watco makes management changes
- OmniTRAX acquires Stockton Terminal & Eastern; Regional Rail launches operations on leased NS line
- Wisconsin & Southern transloads large electrical equipment
- RailAmerica rings up more revenue, income
- Twin Cities & Western reaches 20th anniversary
- Wednesday webcast: Indiana Rail Road's record MOW program
- OmniTRAX owner seeks to acquire Stockton Terminal & Eastern Railroad
- Iowa Interstate begins to build locomotive shop, yard
- Two North Shore roads win NS short-line awards
- Genesee & Wyoming's traffic climbed, RailAmerica's fell in June
- 'Day on Capitol Hill' drew attention to rail industry's legislative pursuits
- Arizona airport authority seeks rail operator for industrial park
- Regional Rail to lease NS line in Pennsylvania for East Penn subsidiary
- KWG Resources advances plan to form short line in Ontario
- In memoriam: Short-line entrepreneur Jack Haley
- Watco installs Inselbuch as CFO, Baden as COO
- Seven Canadian towns seek feds' help to acquire CP line
- California Northern Railroad wins 'clean air champion' award
- Jackson to succeed Mackil as CEO of Beard Land, Modesto & Empire Traction
- CN's Mongeau: Four short lines, infrastructure investments are paying off in carloads
- BNSF, Yellowstone Valley modify lease agreement for Montana line
- Mississippi rail authority to study new short line; Mississippi Export selects Savage to operate transload terminal
- Anacostia & Pacific relocates Chicago HQ; Watco assigns Baton Rouge Southern GM
- New Orleans commission recommends governance changes for Public Belt
- Morristown & Erie to operate newly rehabbed New Jersey line
- Hensley becomes GM of Adrian & Blissfield
- RailAmerica's April carloads lagged last year's pace
- KCS seeks to solidify short-line partnerships
- Genesee & Wyoming logged more carloads in April
- Rio Grande Pacific installs Bach as president
- ASLRRA hands out annual safety awards at San Antonio conference
- Tacoma Rail to repower three locomotives, serve new Sound Refining spur
- Genesee & Wyoming and RailAmerica notch higher revenue, note higher expenses
- ARG Trans, Genesee & Wyoming land new business
- North Carolina transportation board issues grants to nine short lines
- Ten short lines land grants from Saskatchewan government
- Genesee & Wyoming, RailAmerica registered carload gains in March
- Watco inaugurates short line in Alabama
- RailAmerica to acquire Gulf and Ohio's three Alabama short lines
- Watco assigns Cox, Davis to management positions
- Short-line tax credit extension measure enters Senate
- UTU members ratify York Railway agreements
- Finger Lakes, Providence & Worcester and R.J. Corman/Central Kentucky Lines win ASLRRA's 2011 marketing awards
- In memoriam: Consummate L.B. Foster salesman, short-line industry leader D. Dale Leake
- Watco appoints short line GMs, regional transload director
- Wisconsin DOT provides $25.5 million worth of freight-rail grants, loans
- Genesee & Wyoming tally, RMI index show year-to-date carload climbs
- Watco seeks STB approval to lease NS lines in Alabama
- Watco, Kinder Morgan to build transload centers for crude oil
- House bill would extend short-line tax credit another six years
- RailAmerica registers revenue, income gains
- R.J. Corman launches Appalachian Regional Short Line Project
- AAR weekly report: U.S. carloadings snowed under by winter storms
- ASLRRA seeks nominees for first 'Safety Professional of the Year' award
- Genesee & Wyoming drove up income, drove down operating ratio
- Sommers to manage U.S. Steel's short lines
- Iowa Interstate promotes Lipka to EVP, CFO
- Cleveland port, short line forge business-building agreement
- RailAmerica, Genesee & Wyoming registered traffic gains in December
- Patriot Rail assigns six execs to key posts
- Patriot Rail takes ownership of Weyerhaeuser's six short lines
- In memoriam: Former Red River Valley & Western President Tom Kotnour
- Texas short line to acquire Oklahoma DOT line
Articles
- Rail industry data and trends from Progressive Railroading December 2011
- Gas exploration and drilling in the Marcellus Shale means more traffic for Class Is, short lines
- Rail Outlook 2012: Freight rail
- Rail industry data and trends from Progressive Railroading November 2011
- Profile: Dan Sabin, Iowa Northern Railway
- RailTrends 2011: The Growth Story Retold
- Rail industry data and trends from Progressive Railroading October 2011
- Rail industry data and trends from Progressive Railroading September 2011
- Rail industry data and trends from Progressive Railroading July 2011
- Railroad Day on Capitol Hill: Delivering the rail message amid the debt din
- Railroad Day on Capitol Hill (preview)
- Rail industry data and trends from Progressive Railroading June 2011
- Short-line profile: Rick Webb, Watco
- Rail industry data and trends from Progressive Railroading April 2011
- Rail industry data and trends from Progressive Railroading March 2011
- Short lines: NASA Railroad's future in question
- Rail industry data and trends from Progressive Railroading January 2011
- Railroads and the tax code: Short lines, transit agencies welcome tax benefit extensions
- Short-line profile: Andrew Fox of the Chicago South Shore & South Bend, and the Pacific Harbor Line