Sentences with phrase «own railroad company»

A profile on the late CSX CEO Hunter Harrison, a septuagenarian with a mysterious ailment whose plan for the railroad company ignited investor interest.

The railroad company also plans to match contributions given through its employee support network.

Carnegie eventually worked his way up to becoming a superintendent for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company before creating several of his own businesses, the most successful being the Carnegie Steel Mill.

That's generally a reflection of how well investors think Berkshire's stock market portfolio, still over 85 % managed by Buffett and his long - time partner Charlie Munger, as well as the businesses they have bought over the years — including railroad company Burlington Northern, See's Candies, and dozens of others — are doing.

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

John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Trust was the first regulator, monopolizing refining and integrating with pipeline and railroad companies.

Railroad companies made decisions on innovation based on the effects on their bottom line, not societal values.

«When you look at the current demands for trucks and the scarcity of them, the market is terrific for us,» Dean M. Piacente, vice president of intermodal sales and marketing at CSX, said during the railroad company's March 1 investor day.

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.

We just designed an off - the - grid system for a railroad company for remote crossings, with security cameras, phone connections and motion - activated lights.

Berkshire owns more than 80 companies, including insurer Geico, chemical company Lubrizol, railroad company Burlington Northern Santa Fe, and MidAmerican Energy.

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

When I did big things, some large corporation like the Pennsylvania Railroad Company was behind me and the responsible party.

As railroad stocks soared to astounding heights, railroad companies massively overbuilt thousands of kilometers of railway lines throughout the UK.

Starting a new railroad company is so costly that it is prohibitive.

When the Railway Mania bubble eventually popped, many railroad companies went out of business, railway stock investors were ruined and enormous debts were left throughout the country.

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.

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.

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 (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.).

«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.

The outlook is less clear for railroad companies exposed to commodities such as coal and iron ore, as falling prices raise questions over haulage volumes.

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 built it.

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.

State law will be aligned with federal reporting requirements, which is aimed at having private railroad companies submit bridge inspection reports to the Department of Transportation on the same schedule they are provided to federal officials.

Controlled Demolition, Inc. coordinated with police, fire departments and the CSX Railroad Company to make sure no people or trains would be within 1,000 feet of the implosion.

People are asking the railroad company to stop being so SELFISH.

Controlled Demolition, Inc. coordinated with Syracuse police, fire departments and the CSX Railroad Company to make sure no one would be within 1,000 feet of the implosion.

ELIZABETHTOWN A congressional candidate is calling for federal authorities to investigate the plan by a railroad company to store unused rail cars on 22 miles of tracks within the Adirondack Park.

Subway ridership averages 5.8 million people a day, dwarfing the services provided by the MTA's bus and commuter railroad companies.

Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad / Denver and Salt Lake Western Railroad Company / Denver Union Terminal Railway Company / Salt Lake City Union Depot and Railroad Company

Hybrid locomotive technologies offer many advantages, but they will come with new obstacles, says Mike Iden, general director of car and locomotive engineering at Omaha, Neb. — based Union Pacific Railroad, the nation's largest railroad company, with a 5,150 - kilometer network.

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

Ahumada Lead Company / Arizona Oil Company / Greene Cananea Copper Company / Inspiration Consolidated Copper Company / International Smelting Company / Tucson, Cornelia and Gila Bend Railroad Company / Zonia Copper Company

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.

In one scene, Cole conducts a hostile takeover of the railroad company, literally shooting a fellow investor in the back, while the forces of the law turn the other way, distracted by a phalanx of strumpets led by a one - legged brothel madam played by — who else?

Prohibit FRA employees and their spouses and minor children from holding stock or any other financial interest in a railroad company subject to FRA regulation.

Prohibit FRA employees from holding reemployment rights with a railroad company subject to FRA regulation after their first year of employment.

Eligible applicants include state and local governments, transit agencies, railroad companies, special authorities, special districts, and private entities.

Examples of such entities include state departments of transportation; local governments; transit agencies; special authorities; special districts; railroad companies; and private firms or consortia that may include companies specializing in engineering, construction, materials, and / or the operation of transportation facilities.

The effort to purchase standardized equipment is led by the Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act Section 305 Next Generation Corridor Equipment Pool Committee, comprised of representatives of interested states, the Federal Railroad Administration, Amtrak, host freight railroad companies, passenger railroad equipment manufacturers and suppliers, and other passenger railroad operators.

This comprehensive approach includes immediate and long - term steps such as: launching «Operation Classification» in the Bakken region to verify that crude oil is being properly classified; issuing safety advisories, alerts, emergency orders and regulatory updates; conducting special inspections; moving forward with a rulemaking to enhance tank car standards; and reaching agreement with railroad companies on a series of immediate voluntary actions they can take by reducing speeds, increasing inspections, using new brake technology and investing in first responder training.

On July 6, 2013, a catastrophic railroad accident involving a U.S. railroad company occurred in Lac - Mégantic, Quebec, Canada, when an unattended freight train transporting petroleum crude oil rolled down a descending grade and subsequently derailed.

«Indeed, it may be justly claimed as one of the most beautiful climates in the world,» proclaimed a pamphlet written, translated, and distributed by agents of one of the railroad companies that owned millions of the choicest acres of this land, «and one best adapted to the enjoyment of long and vigorous life.»

Practically broke, the «Colonel» and his (adopted) son, Arthur Shaughnessy, must figure out a way of keeping their company, New England & Pacific Railroad Company, afloat.

Maybe they feel like the railroad companies when the Interstate Highway System was announced, or like buggy - whip makers watching the first car drive down the road.

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

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