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...US Customs and Border Protection on Monday closed railway bridges at the cities of Eagle Pass and El Paso, Texas, which respectively rank as the second and fourth busiest freight rail crossings with Mexico...
...Commuter rail systems in Chicago, northern Virginia and southern California also said they would suspend their service during a freight rail strike....
...Here Portaluppi designed a major insurance building with (yet another) triumphal arch making a big urban statement and framing the view of the Chiesa Santa Maria presso San Satiro....
...An independent Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad, with revenues of $22.5bn in 2021, would rank 129th by size in the Fortune 500....
...Berkshire, which owns the Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight rail operator and the insurer Geico, increased its wager on only one bank during the quarter: Bank of America, its second-largest stock investment...
...To connect our towns and cities, we’re investing £21bn on roads and £46bn on railways....
...I have come to meet a local politician, Alexis Martinez Johnson, a conservative Republican running for mayor of Santa Fe, capital of the Democrat state....
...In 2009 Berkshire announced the acquisition of railroad company Burlington Northern Santa Fe for $44bn including debt. The deal was paid with 60 per cent cash and 40 per cent Berkshire shares....
...That decline more than offset the improvement in underlying earnings at Berkshire, which owns railroad Burlington Northern Santa Fe, insurer Geico and chocolate maker See’s Candies....
...Precision railroading was evangelised by Hunter Harrison, a renowned manager who introduced it first on Canadian railways....
...TPL has nominated Don Cook, 72, a retired four-star general of the US Air Force who has served on six boards of directors, including the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad, USAA Federal Savings Bank and...
...We’re also going to build better railways With spades going in the ground on HS2, our commitment to fund the Manchester-Leeds leg of the Northern Powerhouse Rail funding today for a new station at Cambridge...
New accounting rules force conglomerate to recognise portfolio gains
...Winslow used to be the busiest railway hub in northern Arizona....
...All this thinking is framed within the context of complexity science, something the Santa Fe Institute specialises in....
...Mr Wan will surely approve of my winner, a BNSF railway executive who told a conference: “We move stuff from one place to another.”...
...We’re launching a competition for proposals for business led-Development Corporations. We’re funding ten University Enterprise Zones....
...deferred taxes reported by Berkshire for the end of 2014 is more than five times the level of a decade ago, following Mr Buffett’s move into more capital intensive businesses, with the acquisition of BNSF railways...
...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...
...The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Pacific railroads merged in 1995, while Union Pacific took over the Southern Pacific the following year....
After being spurned by CSX, Canadian Pacific turns to Norfolk Southern
US railroad says offer values it about $28.3bn, less than 10 per cent premium to trading price
...Burlington Northern Santa Fe, operator of the US’s second-biggest rail network, also did well, reporting a 12 per cent increase in net earnings despite a 5 per cent decrease in revenues....
...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....
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