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Rail Category: Class Is  -  2008 Article Index

Find railroading Class Is articles for the rail career professionals

PART 1: Class Is Like Their Chances of Posting Revenue Gains & Easing Cost Pains in '09

President-Elect Obama Could Champion Crucial Rail Industry Causes, Labor Unions and Associations Say

Four Class Is Forge Pact to Set Standards for PTC Systems

Industry trends from Progressive Railroading November 2008

Shippers Say 'Yea' to Rail Service, 'Nay' to Higher Rates

Book Review: "James J. Hill's Legacy to Railway Operations"

Industry Trends: From Progressive Railroading October 2008

Norfolk Southern's Public- and Private-Partnering Ways

The National Academy of Railroad Sciences Assembles On-, Off-campus Curriculum to Meet Industry’s Training Needs

At Norfolk Southern, partnerships are in plain view (Pat Foran, Context, September 2008)

Class Is draft sustainability programs with one eye on stewardship and the other on entrepreneurship

Class Is’ Q2 ledgers reflect pinch from costly fuel, soft economy and Midwest floods

From dieselization to computerization to consolidation, freight railroads have made industry-shaping strides

Freight-Rail timeline: ’58-’08

Former NS chief Arnold McKinnon charts milestone markers

Days of Future Past (and Present)

The Rail Renaissance era is here to stay, presuming stakeholders figure out how to partner up (and pony up) to ensure there is enough rail capacity

Industry Trends (from Progressive Railroading/June 2008)

NS, 10 short lines jointly take on short-haul traffic in the Northeast

Class I Q1 Financials: Crunching the numbers

STB computes railroads’ cost of capital in ’06, makes other procedural moves

BNSF: Distributed-power train equipped with ECP brakes makes maiden run

CREATE: Posting incremental progress in Chicago

MOW '08 — Class Is

Ferromex at 10

KCS roads add capacity, tap MOW technology

Canadian Pacific, Consolidated Fastfrate maintain long-time partnership

Tony Hatch — Confidence with a capital 'C'

Re: the rethinking at NYCT and Ferromex (Pat Foran, Context, March 2008

Pumping up the 'actions' volume, wordlessly (Pat Foran, Context, February 2008)

Putting it in perspective: U.S. Class Is’ 2007 traffic ‘woes’

Fuel costly to Class Is in the fourth quarter

Better late than never for the UTU and carriers' conference

A BNSF first: ECP-equipped coal train in revenue service

Union Pacific: The unmaking of a reputation, incrementally (Pat Foran, Context, January 2008)

The Passenger Rail Working Group's 'bold and visionary' plan — a matter of interpretation

STB rejects Norfolk Southern/Watco short-line plan