Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...This includes a concert in Stanford, home to a university and an entire free-market worldview originally built on railroad money (Leland Stanford was one of the Big Four behind the Central Pacific Railroad...
...For the overall quality of railroad infrastructure, Japan, Hong Kong, and Switzerland often rank top. Geography is a key factor: maintaining tracks across an expansive land mass is hard....
...Union Pacific and BNSF — a division of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway — were the two US railroads most directly affected by the closures, the association said....
...In 2023, the prefectural government launched a co-operative effort that involved four mobility start-ups, the Toyota-affiliated company Jtekt and Nagoya Railroad....
...The Pacific Railway Act gave “every alternate section of public land” to the railroad companies, within wide swaths on either side of the tracks....
...That much is only the film’s first revelation, centred in part on Kim Seongeun, a Christian pastor based in Seoul who maintains an underground railroad for refugees....
...Later arrivals worked on the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, which today is 12,500 miles long and runs through seven provinces....
...Schiff rivalled John Pierpont Morgan’s standing on Wall Street — his reputation only enhanced when he orchestrated a rescue of Union Pacific Railroad in the late 1890s after Morgan had abandoned the assignment...
...The hedge fund holds a $1.6bn stake in Union Pacific, making it one of the railroad’s largest shareholders....
...“Since the 1990s and 2000s as the Indian economy has grown more steadily, Indian budgets have looked much more healthy and there has been more money to spend on railroads,” said Partha Mukhopadhyay, senior...
...Walmart sells more than half of all groceries in some areas of the country, Amazon dominates ecommerce, a handful of companies control food supply, a single railroad (BNSF) ships 47 per cent of all grain...
...Railway stretch of railroad, the temporary — since 2016 — Arbutus Greenway runs from the Fraser River in the south almost to Granville Island in the north....
...Post-it maker 3M, oilfield services company Halliburton, railroad operator Union Pacific and homebuilder DR Horton are also due to publish results....
...American Airlines, AT&T and Philip Morris will join Union Pacific in reporting before the opening bell, while railroad rival CSX and Whirlpool will report after the market closes....
...Since 2010, US railroads have paid out $183bn (or $196bn in inflation-adjusted dollars) in buybacks and dividends....
...Freight rail accounted for an estimated 28 per cent of US freight movements in 2020, according to an analysis of transportation department data by railroad operator Union Pacific....
...The railroads and the workers’ union has been trying to negotiate a new employment contract for nearly three years....
...They include employees of the largest carriers in North America, such as Union Pacific, CSX and BNSF, a business owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway....
...Railroad company Union Pacific added emissions rules to a list of factors that could drive up its costs. General Dynamics declined to comment and Union Pacific did not immediately have a comment....
...The railroads and the unions say that they expect Biden to appoint a board before Monday, and any appointments will be closely scrutinised by each side....
...The company also bought a $13mn stake in investment bank Jefferies and purchased $300mn worth of building materials maker Louisiana-Pacific....
...Although the history of Chinese immigration into the US is little discussed in schools, Tsu points out that the influx of Chinese labourers into American plantations, railroads and gold mines from the 1840s...
...The union representing the longshore and warehouse workers at the west coast ports has been engaged in talks with the Pacific Maritime Association, while railroads have also held discussions with unions...
...US railroad Union Pacific on Sunday said it would replace its chief executive Lance Fritz this year. Investcorp is opening an office in Tokyo....
...And just like in the board game Monopoly, it immediately became clear why owning more railroads is such an attractive prospect....
International Edition