Sentences with phrase «rail cars for»

Coordinated movement, inventory and placement of rail cars for the surrounding area customers with customers, train dispatchers and train masters, to insure that all customers» needs are met and exceeded.
In fact, CAF has opened shop in Elmira, New York, and is manufacturing rail cars for Amtrak to use along its high - speed lines.
There are great mounds of imported coal being loaded onto rail cars for shipment to a local power station to be burned and release thousands of tons of climate - changing carbon into the atmosphere.
The U.S. Department of Transportation on Wednesday issued new proposed rules on tankers transporting oil including quickly phasing out the use of old DOT - 111 rail cars for moving crude oil and other hazardous liquids.
At the NJ seaport, cement and steel casks of spent nuclear matter weighing up to 100 tons, would be placed on rail cars for a 2,600 - mile trip west to the Yucca Mountains.
The project will allow businesses to transfer products from trucks to rail cars for outgoing purposes and to move incoming products.

Not exact matches

CN Rail says it will purchase 350 lumber cars to meet growing demand for forest products despite lower segment revenues in the first quarter.
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.
Since 2011, the rail industry has voluntarily adopted tougher safety standards for all new cars, but with literally only a handful of tank car - makers in North America and a huge boom in oil - by - rail shipments, demand far outstrips supply.
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.
Raitt's three - year timeline to fully dispose of older DOT - 111A tankers (and immediate phase - out of 5,000 of the most vulnerable cars) is going to be a difficult one to meet given the existing capacity for suppliers to build new tankers, as well as the desire of oil and gas companies to continue the exponential increases in oil - by - rail shipments into the future.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Manufacturers loaded an average of nearly 4,500 rail cars per day in 2016, for a yearly total of 1.62 million 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.
Unsurprisingly, Bieber found it difficult to adjust to his heightened profile, quickly going off the rails and hitting tabloid front pages on a regular basis for teenage pranks, drugs, turning up late for gigs or smashing up sports 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.
It's an ingenious new way to build custom roads and rails perfect for all those plastic cars and trucks and things that go, providing hours of creative playtime.
Ride On Car with Handle — This is a great ride - on for smaller infants because it has a guard rail, foot rest and musical buttons on the steering wheel.
The Kampala Capital City Authority has undertaken feasibility studies for a light rail system, cable cars and fly - overs as potential solutions to this challenge.
«We have secured investment to allow us to go ahead with important projects such as high speed rail, support for ultra-low carbon cars and major road - building and public transport programmes.»
The Department for Transport has today launched Transport Direct, a new website offering a travel planning service for rail, bus, car and plane journeys all over Britain.
The MTA blamed human error for the derailment and suspended two maintenance track supervisors without pay after an unsecured, improperly stored scrap rail on the express tracks caused two cars of the eight - car train to leave the track.
The Democrat announced Tuesday that the Department of Environmental Conservation is filing a petition to the Surface Transportation Board seeking to stop Saratoga and North Creek Railway from leasing its tracks for storage of unused rail cars.
Now it's seeking to make money by leasing the tracks for storing hundreds of rail cars.
If «proper procedure» can result in an accident caused by a 13 year old playing on a rail car that has sat unattended for 14 days someone should change the procedure - immediately»
They will be installed on 2,600 subway cars and additional campaigns are being created for buses, the Long Island Rail Road and the Metro - North Railroad.
Nearly three dozen cars of a freight train bound for Selkirk, NY and carrying hazardous materials careened off the tracks in a small Pennsylvania town, igniting fires in some rail cars and a garage and forcing emergency officials to evacuate the whole town.
In rural northern Alabama, NYC has become infamous for about 200 shipping containers full of sewage sludge that came by rail, and have been rotting on train cars for six weeks, stalled on the way to a nearby landfill.
Maloney is all for enhancing rail safety, including replacing Department of Transportation 111 cars.
ALBANY The state Department of Environmental Conservation has sent a cease and desist letter to the railway that is transferring rail cars to the Adirondacks for storage.
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.
Gordon Brown - MP for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath - claimed # 6,953 for air travel, # 478 in rail fares and # 178 for car use.
This week he announced that his eighth proposal for 2018 is action to stop rail car storage in the Adirondack Park.
The Adirondack Council appeared pleased at the environmental agenda, including continued funds for water infrastructure and efforts to squash Iowa Pacific Holdings from storing rail cars in the Adirondacks.
Kelly successfully moved the space station's mobile transporter rail car to make room for a Russian cargo supply spacecraft.
Just to make sure, I swabbed a subway car handrail and had it checked for two bugs that are often in the news lately, E. coli and staph bacteria, as well as for a general measure of bacterial activity, known as the standard plate count, or SPC.. The E. coli and staph test came back negative, and the rail's SPC count of 480 compared favorably with the SPC of 200,000 that was obtained from a swab taken at a water fountain in a park near DISCOVER's offices.
Other elements of the Metro project include tow trucks patrolling freeways to clear crashed or broken - down vehicles, car parks at outlying rail stations, «dial - a-ride» services for the elderly and handicapped — and even expansion and improved maintenance of Los Angeles county's 800 kilometres of cycleways.
Mid-range travel — over 300 kilometers, or about 185 miles — should turn over half its passengers to rail, which moves a person for less energy and emissions than a car does.
We will add the remark, however, that it is contemplated by the merchants of our Western states, to communicate their orders for goods, etc., by means of the telegraph, instead of abiding the slow and tedious progress of rail - road cars.
Name Password FMF delegates qualify for discounted rates on air and rail travel, as well as car.
He rails against his parents when they offer him a new car for graduation, the final straw in what he sees as their lifetime of aimless materialism, then donates the remainder of his college fund ($ 24,000) to OxFam America, burns his credit and Social Security cards, and heads west in his battered Datsun.
I've tried supersampling up to 1.5 x from a base 4K resolution, using the top MSAA setting (High) as well as SMAA Ultra (the highest setting for post-processing AA), but aliasing remains visible on the car's top, on the railings, and on the tracks» borders, too.
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