Sentences with phrase «of railroad industry»

«There are 180,000 miles of abandoned railroad corridors around the country, and about 13,000 of these miles have been converted to trails,» says Della Penna, a sales associate with The Murphys Inc., REALTORS ®, in Northampton, Mass, and a 20 - year veteran of the railroad industry who has written several books on the rails - to - trails movement.

Council Bluffs was at one point fifth largest rail center in the 1930s but the overhaul of the railroad industry meant a major loss of jobs for the city.

We also represent all elements of the railroad industry — rail operators and manufacturers, rolling stock leasing companies, banks, private clients, and corporations — throughout the world.

Marfa was founded in the 1880s as a water - stop for railway travelers heading west; the town's growth ebbed and flowed with the rise and decline of the railroad industry.

Effective January 1, 2002, you must have either a total of 10 or more years (120 service months) of railroad industry work or at least 5 years of such work after 1995 to qualify for a pension from the Railroad Retirement Board.

RSAC is a group composed of railroad industry, labor, and governmental representatives who develop recommendations on new regulatory standards and other rail safety programs.

The Commission's power grew over the years, as did its micromanagement of the railroad industry.

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

Not exact matches

J.P. Morgan was involved in reorganizing and consolidating railroads after the industry overheated — and so gained control of a lot of railroads» stock in the process.

Galleries like «The Riverfront Era» and New Frontiers» illustrate the history of steamboats, railroads and other industrial western powerhouse industries.

«We will review the full details of Transport Canada's regulations as soon as they are released and will work closely with both the railroad industry and the government to improve tank car safety.»

The bid, made in cash and stock, is a new chapter in one of the most dramatic recent stories in the railroad industry.

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.

«The reason they defined their industry incorrectly was that they were railroad oriented instead of transportation oriented; they were product oriented instead of customer oriented.»

Steven L. Blue is the President & CEO of Miller Ingenuity, a Minnesota - based firm that manufactures high - technology safety systems for the railroad industry.

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).

China Railway Materials, a supplier of construction materials to the railroad industry, became one of the first companies that is directly owned by the central government to run into debt trouble.

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

«Merger implementation has not typically gone smoothly, and indeed the railroad industry and the shipping public have not yet fully recovered from the service disruptions associated with the previous round of mergers», the board stated.

For instance, «[r] ailroading, which involves specialized facilities, is difficult to enter, but the potential victim of predation would be difficult to drive out precisely because railroad facilities are not useful in other industries.»

Industry compositions of world market also changed dramatically (for example, from dominance of railroads to prominence of information technology and consumer goods in the U.S.).

Yet what sort of «depression» is it which saw an extraordinarily large expansion of industry, of railroads, of physical output, of net national product, of real per capita income?

That said, buy - and - hold investors will need to proceed cautiously, as the healthy share - price gains already racked up across much of the industry leave most of the railroad stocks with below - average appreciation potential to 2017 - 2019.

Deming was named in honor of Mary Ann Deming Crocker, the wife of Charles Crocker, an important figure in the local railroad industry.

Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. approached CSX Corp. about a combination that would unite two of North America's largest railroad operators, said people briefed on the matter, as the boom in North American energy reshapes the railroad industry.

The TWU represents more than 140,000 men and women in the airline, railroad, transit, service, utility and gaming industries across the U.S., and 43,000 of them are members of Local 100 in New York City.

A range of groups representing commuters, the construction industry and transportation planners praised the proposal, saying it would reduce bottlenecks on the railroad while allowing more trains to travel from New York City to Long Island for people making the reverse commute.

Thanks for stopping by... I'm currently retired from the Railroad Industry (Engineer / Transportation Superintendent) and play alot of golf with the exception of snow days & weekends.

As industry seeded the American landscape with rows of metallic factories — followed by railroad tracks and then high - speed roads — the education of workers had to match progress.

Industry: Transportation / Trucking / Railroad Company size: 5,001 - 10,000 Level: Senior Focus: Operations Experience using the software: More than 1 year as User, Administrator, Member of the deployment / customization team, Member of the procurement team

Short lines and regional railroads account for 31 percent of U.S. freight rail mileage and 10 percent of industry employees.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) today issued an industry - wide Safety Advisory to help ensure railroads adhere to federal regulations regarding maximum authorized train speed limits.

The Office of Drug and Alcohol Policy and Compliance advises the Secretary on national and international drug testing and control issues and is the principal advisor to the Secretary on rules related to the drug and alcohol testing of safety - sensitive transportation employees in aviation, trucking, railroads, mass transit, pipelines, and other transportation industries.

The «Act» required DOT Agencies to implement drug testing of safety - sensitive transportation employees in the aviation, trucking (including school bus drivers, and certain limousine and van drivers), railroads, mass transit, and pipelines industries.

A former colossus of the aforementioned steel, railroad, and shipping industries, Pittsburgh has been reinventing itself as a tech and services mecca, and the Ace's ambitiously pierced and tattooed staff, busy preparing Intelligentsia coffees and polishing bottles of locally sourced rye whiskey, suggest the transformation is proceeding apace.

ODAPC advises the Secretary on national and international drug testing and control issues and is the principal advisor to the Secretary on rules related to the drug and alcohol testing of safety - sensitive transportation employees in aviation, trucking, railroads, mass transit, pipelines, and other transportation industries.

Working in the railroad industry offers one of the few well - paying careers that does not require a college degree.

«I believe that this approach will be key for the railroad industry to reach the next level of safety.»

These positions require (1) broad knowledge of railroad operating practices and recordkeeping; (2) practical knowledge of methods used in the installation, maintenance, or manufacture of railroad equipment, signal systems, or track; (3) knowledge of safety practices applicable to the railroad industry and related laws, regulations, and standards; and (4) knowledge of the investigative techniques used in determining the cause of accidents.

U.S. Deputy Transportation Secretary John Porcari today spoke to Midwest - based railroad manufacturers and suppliers at a Chicago rail forum about opportunities for their companies to participate in the growing industry of next - generation, American - made trains.

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Worked in the railroad industry for less than 10 years of railroad earnings and you have less than five years of railroad earnings after 1995, we will include your railroad earnings in counting your Social Security credits and calculating your Social Security benefit.

The Atlantic and St. Lawrence railroad entered Berlin in 1851 and a number of industries, including the lumber industry, have operated there.

Binghamton has been important since the railroads came through, and was both a crossroads and a center of industry for many years.

Both railroads and industry have declined in recent years, but the Greater Binghamton Area has withstood the test of time and the city has made great strides in bringing new jobs and new opportunities to the city.

Motivated by the lack of space and money, the Wake Forest College sold plots of land for residences and businesses, and in time the town of Wake Forest had a railroad depot and new industries.

And it's hard to believe that even in the worst of economic depressions that the largest companies in the food, consumer staples, railroad, utility, healthcare, and banking industries will suddenly become unprofitable and no longer have the money to pay and raise those dividends.

It was drawn from local firms I was a little knowledgeable of, simply because they were common: my bank, industry in my region, my cable supplier, my coffee shop, my electric company, the railroad that wakes me in the night, etc..

The Canadian railroad industry was deregulated in 1987 under the National Transportation Act, resulting in the cancellation of transportation subsidies and deregulation of freight rates for most commodities.

Given the company's geographic diversity, it's worth quickly reviewing the U.S. railroad industry, which was deregulated by the Staggers Rail Act of 1980.