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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...
...Precision railroading was evangelised by Hunter Harrison, a renowned manager who introduced it first on Canadian railways....
...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....
...Mr Buffett’s largest deal to date was the takeover of the Burlington Northern Railroad in 2009, when Berkshire paid $26bn for the 77 per cent of the company it did not already own....
...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...
...It has started adding a second track to its northern main line across Montana....
...Frigid conditions in the US Midwest caused delays and disruption in shipping cargo by rail, hurting Mr Buffett’s railroad subsidiary, Burlington Northern, the company said on Friday....
...BNSF said that, during 2013, its northern corridor route received more of its $4bn capital spending than any other part of its network, but that the work to install new sidings and second tracks had added...
...The investment guru’s conglomerate, Berkshire Hathaway, runs Burlington Northern, owner of a train carrying crude oil that crashed into a derailed vehicle on Monday night in North Dakota....
...Biggest Deal: The $26.6bn acquisition of US railway Burlington Northern Santa Fe in 2009....
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