Sentences with phrase «railroad company in»

Home to the very first VISA card, Fresno was founded by the Central Pacific Railroad Company in 1872, to serve as a major transcontinental commercial transportation hub.

The Napa Valley Wine Train began as the Napa Valley Railroad Company in 1864, and became the Napa Valley Wine Train in 1987.

Fresno was originally founded by the Central Pacific Railroad Company in the late 19th century.

Some of the factors the growth of railroad companies in the past few years include the shale oil boom in the U.S., limited pipeline...

Not exact matches

The 69 - year - old railroad veteran stormed into Canadian Pacific in June 2012 after a proxy battle led by activist investor Bill Ackman and has made good on his promise to repair the underperforming company.

The scant regulation early in the country's life, and the wide variety of paper currencies in circulation via private banks and other state - chartered companies like insurance vendors and railroads, meant a free - for - all for any enterprising soul with a flair for forgery.

He first bought up insurance companies and then a whole host of other kinds of companies, including retailer Nebraska Furniture Mart, See's Candies, catalog company Oriental Trading, ice cream scooper Dairy Queen, underwear maker Fruit of the Loom, railroad firm Burlington Northern, and, most recently in partnership with Brazilian investment firm 3G, ketchup maker Heinz.

Berkshire has roughly 90 subsidiaries including Geico car insurance, the BNSF railroad and Dairy Queen ice cream, and has large stakes in companies such as Kraft Heinz, Wells Fargo, Coca - Cola, and IBM.

After ruinous bouts of competition like this, rival railroad companies would agree to cooperate, pooling the business in certain areas and setting common rates.

We are also fortunate to be served by two Class I railroads and 24 short - line companies, giving our state the No. 7 rank in rail mileage, with nearly 5,000 miles of railroad track, the largest railroad network in the Southeast.

And 2,700 miles from June's office in San Francisco, in a low - rise building wedged between a strip mall and railroad tracks outside of Boston, another emotion - measuring pioneer named Rana — Rana el Kaliouby — has spent the past year and a half strategizing to make the facial - cue recognition company she co-founded, Affectiva, the essential hub of the emerging emotion economy.

In the past decade, Berkshire has morphed from an insurance / investing vehicle for Buffett to a major conglomerate that owns everything from Dairy Queen to Fruit of the Loom to giant railroad company BNSF.

The most important office law business in America such as the law business incidental to banking, insurance, trust - company operation, investment work, railroading, patents, admiralty, and large corporation matters in general is in the hands of non-Jewish firms many of which, even though they have numerous Jewish clients, have no Jewish partners.

In the deck, there's a slide that outlines the market cap of companies during the Industrial Revolution, including the Pennsylvania Railroad, U.S. Steel, and Standard Oil.

It's widely diversified across almost every conceivable industry, is largely immune to the sorts of technological changes that could still wipe Google off the map due to fact profits come from selling stuff like ketchup, jewelry, insurance, furniture, railroad freight services, and more (though management is smart enough to realize this so the technology giant has been making investments in everything from medical to energy companies).

For companies involved in capital intensive activities, such as the auto companies and railroads, you are going to see much lower price to cash flow multiples because investors know that much of the money is going to have to be poured back into equipment, facilities, materials, and fixed assets or else the firm will be hurt.

If Berkshire were buying H.J. Heinz Co. company outright, the deal would be Buffett's second - biggest ever behind the $ 26.3 billion purchase of BNSF railroad in 2010.

(3) regulatory policy to keep the prices charged by natural monopolies such a railroads, power and gas companies in line with actual production costs plus normal profit.

His coverage includes companies operating in the railroad, airline, aerospace, trucking and logistics segments of the North American transportation industry.

For railroad companies like CSX Corporation (NASDAQ: CSX), improvements in operating ratio are always good news for shareholders.

Railway Mania was an economic bubble in the United Kingdom in the 1840s that involved a railroad development frenzy and a speculative bubble in the shares of railroad companies.

I don't trust government - reported statistics, thus I'd watch numbers that the Chinese government is less likely to fudge: electricity consumption, which was down during the global recession, same - store sales of American fast food restaurants in China, tonnage of goods shipped through railroads, and, though they may lag, sales by American and European companies in China.

«Now, the question, after over a full year of progress and tremendous strides in accountability, opening access to care, improving access to benefits, tackling mental health, and strengthening relations with stakeholders, is whether the President is ready to turn the keys to the VA over to ideologues who have designs on having VA go the way of railroads, airports, energy companies, postal services, and other businesses that have been privatized — and have also proven profitable for a few,» he said in the statement.

In an interview with Business Week, Donald Broughton, an analyst for Avondale Partners, LLC, was talking about the stocks of two railroad companies: Union Pacific and Burlington Northern.

Meanwhile, increasing regulatory scrutiny of the railroad industry appears to be a trend working in the company's favor.

Before that it was made up of just 90 companies in the railroad, industrial and utility sectors.

Railroad stocks proceeded to sink by 50 % from 1846 to 1850 (Odlyzko, 2010), a plunge that was exacerbated when railroad companies called in the remaining 90 % of the money that they had lent to stock investors as a part of their promotional scheme (CamplinRailroad stocks proceeded to sink by 50 % from 1846 to 1850 (Odlyzko, 2010), a plunge that was exacerbated when railroad companies called in the remaining 90 % of the money that they had lent to stock investors as a part of their promotional scheme (Camplinrailroad companies called in the remaining 90 % of the money that they had lent to stock investors as a part of their promotional scheme (Camplin, 2010).

At this point, nearly every town wanted its own railroad and, in 1846, 272 Acts of Parliament were passed for the purpose of incorporating new railroad companies, which proposed a total of 9,500 miles (15,300 km) of new lines (Wikipedia, n.d.).

On March 26, a group of New York — based lawyers headed by Edward D. Fagan, who spearheaded successful suits on behalf of Holocaust survivors against European firms that collaborated with the Nazis in using concentration camp inmates as laborers, filed suit in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn against FleetBoston Financial, the insurance giant Aetna, and railroad conglomerate CSX Corporation, on the grounds that these corporations are the successors of companies that profited from slavery before the Civil War.

«A group of nine railroad companies purchased 320 acres of swampy land in southwest Chicago that would soon become the Chicago Union Stockyards,» Foodseum explains.

Bacon: One size does not fit all September 21, 2015: In the unassuming city of Frontenac, a rural town in southeastern Kansas that's situated in a region flanked by railroad tracks and perhaps better - known in past decades for the prevalence of strip mining for coal, SugarCreek has quietly operated one of the Cincinnati, Ohio - based company's most productive bacon processing plants since 198In the unassuming city of Frontenac, a rural town in southeastern Kansas that's situated in a region flanked by railroad tracks and perhaps better - known in past decades for the prevalence of strip mining for coal, SugarCreek has quietly operated one of the Cincinnati, Ohio - based company's most productive bacon processing plants since 198in southeastern Kansas that's situated in a region flanked by railroad tracks and perhaps better - known in past decades for the prevalence of strip mining for coal, SugarCreek has quietly operated one of the Cincinnati, Ohio - based company's most productive bacon processing plants since 198in a region flanked by railroad tracks and perhaps better - known in past decades for the prevalence of strip mining for coal, SugarCreek has quietly operated one of the Cincinnati, Ohio - based company's most productive bacon processing plants since 198in past decades for the prevalence of strip mining for coal, SugarCreek has quietly operated one of the Cincinnati, Ohio - based company's most productive bacon processing plants since 1982.

When the Reading Railroad decided it wanted to build a massive building for its trains smack dab in the same spot as two existing markets, Philadelphians — then and now proud and stubborn, and proud of being stubborn — raised a cry and hue, and wrested a compromise from the powerful company: The train terminal went above a new, state - of - the - art, 39,000 - square - foot indoor market that would eventually outlive the railroad company that bRailroad decided it wanted to build a massive building for its trains smack dab in the same spot as two existing markets, Philadelphians — then and now proud and stubborn, and proud of being stubborn — raised a cry and hue, and wrested a compromise from the powerful company: The train terminal went above a new, state - of - the - art, 39,000 - square - foot indoor market that would eventually outlive the railroad company that brailroad company that built it.

A railroad does not directly touch Big Sky Environmental's landfill, so the company has to transfer waste from the train to trucks in a nearby town.

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While Saratoga & North Creek Railway ran what the company says was its last tourist train on Saturday, Warren County leaders said they have heard from a representative of another railroad that is interested in excursion train operations on the county - owned line.

Permanent exhibits include the stories of the formation of Onondaga County, anti-slavery Underground Railroad activities in Syracuse and the century - old Syracuse China company.

The Trump administration has withdrawn a proposed requirement for railroads and trucking companies to test employees for obstructive sleep apnea, a disorder believed to be a factor in last year's fatal train crash at Hoboken Terminal in New Jersey.

The other trial, including the former SUNY president and Louis P. Ciminelli of Buffalo, whose company was a partner in a now - abandoned plan to rebuild the Stamford railroad station, will start in May.

Harry Jameson, chairman of the Catskill Mountain Railroad Company, which lost some trackage in the storm, says the line bounced back and continues to run fall foliage trains.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is asking a federal agency to stop a railroad company from mothballing unused rail cars in the Adirondack Park.

He railroaded dozens of student loan companies out out tens of millions in blood money and he has done what with that $.

The head of Simmons Machine Tool Corp. worries the company is in danger of losing a contract to make equipment for the Metro - North Railroad, which would give his out - of - state competitors an edge in winning more business in the future.

NEWCOMB — Adirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve appealed to Governor Andrew Cuomo to take action on a proposal by a private rail company to store hundreds of discarded oil tank cars on railroad tracks in the High Peaks.

Waters has accepted an engineering job with a company specializing in railroad bridge construction in nearby Fulton, Missouri.

Eventually, railroad companies would open hospitals close to the tracks in remote locales otherwise without medical facilities.

In fact he first tried to get a railroad to carry them in what we call piggyback manner — that is to say a truck trailer still on its chassis, attached to a flat car on a railroad — but the railroads after the war had their own problems and they lacked the kind of flexibility he would have needed; and also they felt themselves to be competing directly with the trucking companies and they hoped to drive them off the field essentiallIn fact he first tried to get a railroad to carry them in what we call piggyback manner — that is to say a truck trailer still on its chassis, attached to a flat car on a railroad — but the railroads after the war had their own problems and they lacked the kind of flexibility he would have needed; and also they felt themselves to be competing directly with the trucking companies and they hoped to drive them off the field essentiallin what we call piggyback manner — that is to say a truck trailer still on its chassis, attached to a flat car on a railroad — but the railroads after the war had their own problems and they lacked the kind of flexibility he would have needed; and also they felt themselves to be competing directly with the trucking companies and they hoped to drive them off the field essentially.

North Korea has also been accused of trying to hack electric power companies in the U.S. and a railroad system in Canada.

«Their metro system is fundamentally a property company,» Lister noted, adding that similar schemes financed the expansion of railroads in Europe and North America in the 19th century.

Last year, President Obama proposed national guidelines that would require all trucking and railroad companies to do the same, but in August the Trump administration said it would not pursue such regulations.

Built by railroad companies as a destination hotel in just 90 days, the Grand Hotel was completed in 1887.