Sentences with phrase «many rail cars»

Eastern Canadian refineries geared to light grades are buying more cheap crude from North Dakota and Texas in place of costly crude they were previously buying from Algeria and the U.K. (How do you suppose those rail cars ended up in Lac Megantic?)

Both shipping rates and rail car loads declined.

Cellphone video shot by a bystander and carried by Atlanta's Fox TV affiliate on its Facebook page showed a female and another person lying on the floor of a rail car as passengers bent over them.

Surely much lower cost than rail cars and fixed track, and we have the world's leading ferry builders in our backyard too.

There is no infrastructure in place on the coast to transfer crude oil from rail cars to ships, he added.

Perth - based technology company DTI Group has won a contract to provide its surveillance systems to an Irish rail car operator for an undisclosed sum.

«I don't know [the Ukrainian blog's] exact calculations, they just threw out the 100,000 number,» Tack said, adding that they basically figured Moscow would pack each rail cars to the brim with 72 soldiers, and that they multiplied the final number by 1.5 times on the assumption that the Kremlin was keeping the real number of rail cars secret.

In the 1880s, the most sophisticated railroad managers and some economists argued that railroads were «natural monopolies,» the inevitable consequence of an industry that required huge investments in rights of way over land, constructing railways, and building train engines and rail cars.

Production has risen in the world's fifth largest oil producer, but full pipelines and a rail car shortage have made it difficult for drillers to ship out of Canada.

Element is an asset - based financing company; it helps firms pay for equipment, airplanes and rail cars.

Harrison, who grew up in Memphis partying with Elvis at Graceland, became a railroader oiling the underbelly of rail cars in 1964.

Legislation that would improve public reporting by railways and allow for financial penalties if they fail to deliver rail cars on time has been stalled in the Senate since the fall.

WINNIPEG, Manitoba / VANCOUVER, April 23 (Reuters)- At an Alberta oil loading terminal, a convoy of big rigs are gearing up to haul Canadian crude oil hundreds of miles through bone dry fields across the U.S. border into Montana, where the oil will be transferred to pipelines and rail cars headed south and west.

Production has risen in the world's fifth largest producer but full pipelines and a rail car shortage have made it difficult for drillers to ship oil out of Canada.

That's why Valero Energy Corp., the largest independent U.S. refiner, is planning to own 9,000 new rail cars by year end to bring in crude from Canada and the U.S.'s equally clogged shale oilfields to processing facilities.

The operation would transfer coal from rail cars to barges, which would then carry it to nearby Texada Island where it would be loaded on ships and transported to Asia.

Unexpected maintenance reliability problems with BHP's car dumpers — the giant machines that can pick up and empty a fully loaded rail car of ore — forced the resources giant to reduce iron ore production guidance for 2017 - 18 to between 272 million tonnes and 274 million tonnes, just down from its previous guidance of 275 million tonnes and 280 million tonnes.

The tunnel contained rail cars filled with radioactive waste, leading to concerns of a radiation leak.

By and large, it's heading here on rail car from the U.S.

It could be numbers with respect to this issue or with respect to pipeline capacity or how many rail cars they need to be able to contract to export product.

The Downstream segment comprises refining of crude oil into petroleum products; marketing of crude oil and refined products; transporting of crude oil and refined products by pipeline, marine vessel, motor equipment, and rail car; and manufacturing and marketing of commodity petrochemicals, plastics for industrial uses, and fuel and lubricant additives.

Creating problems for Saskatchewan farmers who can't ship their agricultural products because rail cars are being used for oil?

Oil plays in North Dakota, Texas, and elsewhere around the country may have reversed declining US production, but much of that oil is also ending up on rail cars bound for coastal refineries.

Currently, American carriers are compelled to disclose weekly reports about the movement of their rail cars, including which of the 23 commodity groups each rail car is delivering.

Shippers accuse carriers of favouring their more well - serviced markets when rail cars are in short supply, causing shipping delays for companies that have no other transportation options like trucks or other rail carriers.

The industry has expanded pipeline capacity and found other ways, such as rail cars, to get oil from the middle of the country to major demand centers on the coasts.

A rail car with doubled stacked containers earns twice the revenue compared to a single stacked car.

Continued growth in intermodal shipping allows UNP to double stack more cars increasing revenue and profitability per intermodal rail car.

In 1998 total industry wide rail car deliveries peaked at 75,704 and bottomed out in 02 at 17, 736.

Think of it another way, in the last 7 year cycle FCA had an average FCF of $ 36 million a year, and now FCA is expanding into different rail cars types and the refurbishment / rebuilt market, more gigawatts of coal fired power plant capacity will begin construction in 09 then was build in the last 7 years and FCA has $ 162 million in cash from the 05 IPO.

The cycle in rail car orders from peak to trough is seven years in duration.

The expansion into different rail car types and the new refurbishing and leasing business will further benefit FCA.

In addition to the positive fundamentals for coal and the likely pickup in orders come 09, FCA is also diversifying its operations by developing non coal rail cars and an active exploration of international opportunities.

Manufactured goods make up about 47 per cent of all rail car loadings in Canada and CP is a core element to this network.

Manufacturers loaded an average of nearly 4,500 rail cars per day in 2016, for a yearly total of 1.62 million rail cars.

Yet there are still far more accidents involving rail cars than pipelines every year.

Major regulatory changes have brought about improved safety measures, including better rupture - resistant rail cars.

But why liquefy it to put it on rail cars?

Canadian oil producers have struggled to find sufficient rail cars to move their barrels since TransCanada Corp.'s Keystone pipeline spilled in South Dakota last year and have turned to securing railway cars to move their barrels, a situation which has exacerbated problems for farmers moving their grain off the prairies.

The company estimates that it loads 40 to 90 high - capacity refrigerated rail cars per year.

At the time, Friedman says, the three operations combined were utilizing approximately 300 to 400 rail cars each year, but after converting some of its truck operations to rail that number reached 1,500.

A rail car can make many stopovers between its point of origin and its destination, and when it comes to fresh produce and other perishable items, that's not acceptable.

At the time, the three companies were utilizing about 300 to 400 rail cars per year each, and converting some of their truck operations brought that number up to about 1,500 rail cars.

These are: > The ability to offload rail cars; > Custom cutting seafood products; > Allowing additions to existing orders up to 2 a.m. for same - day shipping; > The option of free storage for up to 45 days for customers who wish to take advantage of special promotions or sales but can not store products in - house; > No minimum shipping on current routes; > A live inventory system that allows customers to know instantly if products are in stock; and 88 food and drink • summer 2010 • www.fooddrink-magazine.com << All American Foods is using 80 percent of its 100,000 - square - foot facility.

This luxury glass - domed observation car is a 1952 antique Pullman rail car that is accessible exclusively to guests with reserved seating, inaccessible to passengers in the main cars.

The Napa Valley Wine Train isn't just a train ride — it's an institution that echoes the glory days of train travel, with fine dining service, multiple course meals cooked to order, Napa Valley scenery and ultimate relaxation aboard an exquisitely restored vintage rail car.

Explore two of Napa's most historic features: the vintage rail cars of the Wine Train and The Napa River Inn and Historic Napa Mill, a world - class urban destination in the...

Explore two of Napa's most historic features: the vintage rail cars of the Wine Train and The Napa River Inn and Historic Napa Mill, a world - class urban destination in the heart of California's beautiful wine country.

While the 1905 rail car is being restored at Heritage Park, an interactive exhibit and performance will tour across Canada this fall.

The CP Railway united Canada as a nation and no other rail car did more to settle the west than the Colonist Cars.