June 2009 - RAILWAYIST - MyProgressiveRailroading

"GRAIN JOURNAL 2009 Rail Transportation Update"

The Grain Journal is "The voice of the grain and feed industry" The May/June 2009 Volume 37, # 3 edition -Rail Transportation Update- covers the following: An outlook for the 2009 harvest for the 6 Class I railroads in North America including...

Published 06-29-2009 9:00 PM by RAILWAYIST

Filed under: www.grainnet.com, www.skylandgrain.com

"IRON ROAD" to air on -CBC TV- August of 2009

The new film "IRON ROAD" will be broadcast by the CBC, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on August 9th & 16th at 8:00pm EST and will tell the story of the over 17,000 Chinese workers who were recruited to build Canada's railroads...

Published 06-24-2009 7:14 PM by RAILWAYIST

Filed under: CBC.com, CCTV.com

"Only ALCO-G.E. builds -all three-"

"All three types of motive power---steam---electric, and diesel-electric---were used to produce the amazing totals of 725,000,000,000 (billion) freight ton-miles and 85,000,000,000 (billion) passenger-miles in 1943." "Only American Locomotive...

Published 06-22-2009 5:57 AM by RAILWAYIST

"this is the last word in railway transportation"

The Olympian electric locomotive # 10254 built by Alco-General Electric in 1919 was equipped with 12 Bi-Polar gearless motorized bogies. At 76 feet in length and weighing 521,000 lbs, it "afforded Milwaukee Road passengers the smoothest and most...

Published 06-16-2009 6:41 PM by RAILWAYIST

Michigan Tech/IBM Global Rail Innovation Center Partnership

The Michigan Tech Rail Transportation Program is close to 2 years old, the IBM Global Rail Innovation Center opened up last week. What does this tell you? The RAILVOLUTION is gaining steam...it's time for more of America's businesses, industries...

Published 06-15-2009 3:12 PM by RAILWAYIST

Filed under: ibm.com, mtu.edu

"RAILS AIRPORT TOUCHDOWN - June's Railway Technology Newsletter"

"The Growing Airport Market - Friday 12 June 2009" When you and I take a friend or business associate to the airport, this usually means 2 pick-up&drop-offs---a total waste of time and gazoline. What if you could still do the 'bye-bye'...

Published 06-15-2009 2:28 PM by RAILWAYIST

Filed under: railway-technology.com

"See America now by Pullman-Lowest Rates in History!"

"EXCITING NEWS! As a feature of "Travel America Year" The Pullman Company (in association with America's railroads) is offering you a sensational travel bargain...the Pullman 1st class "Grand Circle" Tour Plan. Make Pullman...

Published 06-14-2009 3:15 PM by RAILWAYIST

CNBC "Fast Money" video: "Should you climb aboard the transports?"

"Railroads are outperforming the markets": goto "Eye On Transports" on CNBC Fast Money June 12th 2009 5:00 EST Morgan Stanley upgraded BNSF-Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp- BNI to equal-weight and upgraded CSX which it called the...

Published 06-13-2009 7:42 AM by RAILWAYIST

Filed under: cnbc.com/fastmoney

UNION PACIFIC Chairman & CEO James Young on Bloomberg TV: "For the Record"

Mr. Young, Chairman & CEO of Union Pacific Railroad was featured on Bloombergs TV News interviewed by Monica Bertram on "For The Record", Friday 13th of July at 1:00 am. This program will be repeated throughout the weekend. Mr. Young: Freight...

Published 06-13-2009 6:02 AM by RAILWAYIST

Filed under: bloomberg.com

"These trains touch the lives of 50 million people every day"

"PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD" Carries more passengers, hauls more freight than any other railroad in America" "Rolling along the rails to a hundred cities and a thousand hamlets, the Pennsylvania's fleet of 6,700 trains---passenger and...

Published 06-12-2009 7:37 AM by RAILWAYIST

"NOW - Worlds Largest Fleet of Newly Equipped Trains"

"...bringing you the NEW in New York Central!" "You'll find a world of new comfort not only on the fleet shown here, but on dozens of other daily trains. Production's caught up with the world's largest orders for re-clining...

Published 06-09-2009 9:19 PM by RAILWAYIST

High-Speed Rail Candada=/=Transport efficiency of use-electric vs fossil fuel data:

"The basic facts in favour of a shift from liquid fuel to electricity for transportation are these:" "1st---the purchase price of energy in the form of energy in the form of electricity in jurisdictions like ONTARIO, CANADA is usually less...

Published 06-07-2009 4:20 PM by RAILWAYIST

Filed under: http://highspeedrail.ca, christopher.kennedy@utoronto.ca

Governor Granholm of Michigan talking rail car building in auto-plants

The Governor of Michigan, Jennifer Granholm is walking and talking rail these days, definitely not about the roller-coasters at Cedar Point Amusement Park in Sandusky, Ohio---even though they are quite sophisticated and well maintained rail systems in...

Published 06-05-2009 7:47 AM by RAILWAYIST

Filed under: freep.com

CNBC VIDEO: "High-speed-rail is coming America---get ready"

Street Signs with TV hostess Erin Burnett Airtime: Tuesday June 2nd 2009 / 2:35 PM EST US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said: "America is one big pothole today and we're going to fix it" "We are going to do projects of NATIONAL...

Published 06-05-2009 6:09 AM by RAILWAYIST

Filed under: cnbc.com/street signs

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