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...The parent company of Mexican rail company Ferromex, Grupo México, declined to comment....
...The American Petroleum Institute, the country’s main oil lobby group, said railways informed energy companies last week that hazardous materials shipments would be curtailed to clear tracks ahead of a potential...
...A modest 15 storeys, it was designed in 1935 for the Snia Viscosa chemicals company by architect Alessandro Rimini....
...Precision railroading was evangelised by Hunter Harrison, a renowned manager who introduced it first on Canadian railways....
...Situated trackside, La Posada was the masterpiece of architect Mary Colter, who for 40 years worked with Fred Harvey developing hotels along the line of the Santa Fe railroad....
...Mr Wan will surely approve of my winner, a BNSF railway executive who told a conference: “We move stuff from one place to another.”...
...and a string of US power companies....
...A model railway represents the Burlington Northern Santa Fe network. Sadly, there are no discounts on NetJets, the pay-per-flight private aircraft operator....
...A series of mergers in the 1990s left just Union Pacific and Burlington Northern Santa Fe in the western US; Norfolk Southern and CSX in the eastern US; CP and Canadian National in Canada; and Kansas City...
...“Norfolk Southern is now the outlier,” Mr Hatch says of how the company has suffered compared with others....
...The company last October approached CSX but was rebuffed. ....
...The secondary market for shuttle trains on the Burlington North Santa Fe and Union Pacific railways, which dart between the western farm belt and grain customers, illustrates the situation....
...The company’s operations span insurance and lending, railways, manufacturing and power companies, and it maintains a portfolio of minority stakes in other large US companies....
...Omaha for the company’s annual meeting....
...Many of the railroads — particularly Burlington Northern Santa Fe, the second-biggest, owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway — have had to invest heavily to relieve congestion....
...BNSF, the railway, and Berkshire Hathaway Energy publish quarterly earnings reports of their own but analysts say other divisions report substantially fewer details than competitor companies....
...“We will be making decisions that are in the best interests of shippers and the best interests of the longer-term recovery,” the company said....
...Its operating margin has gone from 10 to 30 per cent, as the company has squeezed labour and other costs....
...Burlington Northern Santa Fe, the Warren-Buffett-owned operator of the US’s second-biggest rail network, started refusing from Monday to accept containers from other railroads heading for export from west...
...Warren Buffett’s Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad, operator of the US’s second-biggest rail network, will be the only freight operator with a significant amount of track using PTC by the December deadline...
...Berkshire’s main businesses span insurance, railways and power companies, and the group also owns retailers, industrial companies, newspapers, and a portfolio of stakes in brand-names groups such as Coca-Cola...
...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...
...Mr Buffett’s operating companies span railways, insurance, energy utilities, retailers, newspapers and diverse industrial businesses, and their growing value has helped spur a rally in Berkshire shares this...
...The company says that last year alone it experienced 50 per cent of the traffic growth on the whole US rail freight network....
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