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...A three-month investigation by the railway police determined it an accidental death, probably suicide. Deshpande’s father declined to comment....
...“The groundwork for this case was set in two previous cases — Daimler AG v Bauman and BNSF Railway Co. v Tyrrell — in which the Supreme Court put limitations on the jurisdictions of state courts,” says Mr...
...Quebec: The disaster that forced a safety rethink Late on the evening of July 5 last year, a driver for the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway, a regional railway, left his train of 72 crude oil tank cars...
...BNSF and CP are also among the biggest transporters of crude from North Dakota’s fast-growing Bakken Shale oil producing region, while all three companies have experienced strong growth in demand to move...
...Anthony Hatch, an independent rail analyst, said there had always been struggles between farmers who wanted to move grain at the time they chose and rail companies that wanted to control their costs....
...Rick Webb, chief executive of Watco, owner of several shortlines, said the company was “blessed” to own energy-linked operations including the Yellowstone Valley railway in the Bakken region....
...Mr Knight promised the company would not rest on its laurels, however. Like other railways, UP argues the STB’s calculations overstate its returns, meaning that it still has room to improve....
...“They’ve changed from inwardly-focused slow or no-growth engineering companies, to companies who have offices globally,” Anthony Hatch, a veteran industry analyst, says....
...“They are extremely well run,” says Anthony Hatch, an independent railroad analyst. BNSF also faces far fewer competition problems than many railroads have faced in recent years....
...It follows from this that Mr Buffett would never have invested in the network of railways that make up BNSF in the 19th century, when the US became the world’s first emerging market....
...Janette Faherty, chief executive, TNG/Avanta, the training company. Julia Fawcett, chief executive, Lowry arts centre. Michael Hart, director, Ffestinog Railway Company....
...company to ship coal from the Powder River Basin coalfield....
...Anthony Hatch, an independent railroad analyst, said the last quarter’s figures showed the companies had continued to enjoy the power to maintain prices they developed in the years of strong growth between...
...We learn how the boy who memorised baseball scores and railway timetables became the Fed chairman who saw in the micro-data evidence of a US productivity take-off in the mid-1990s and adjusted monetary policy...
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