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KEARNEY, N.J. — If the Point-No-Point Bridge in northern New Jersey needs to open for a ship to...
Jervis Langdon, Jr. was born in 1905 in Elmira, New York. He was part of the fourth generation of a family of industrialists with ties to the railroad industry. His grandfather was Mark Twain’s friend and brother-in-law, and his uncle was president of the Lehigh Valley Railroad.
A Lehigh Valley Railroad boxcar that illustrates the railroad’s route. 
A young Jervis Langdon, Jr. (Photo: geni.com)Langdon graduated from Cornell University in 1927 and began his...
APM Terminals Elizabeth in New Jersey wants shippers to consider using its terminal for their intermodal needs, citing “abundant space” at the Millennium Marine Rail facility, a 12-hour dwell time for import rail cargo and four outbound train departures daily to the Midwest.
The terminal on Friday said it is seeking to expand intermodal cargo volumes to and from the Midwest and Canada. CSX (NASDAQ: CSX), Norfolk Southern (NYSE: NSC) and Canadian railway CN (NYSE: CNI) all serve the terminal...
There are many people interested in former transportation companies, whether they were trucking companies, railroads, airlines or ocean lines. They are called “fallen flags,” and the term describes those companies whose corporate names have been dissolved through merger, bankruptcy or liquidation.
The Alphabet Route was not actually an operating railroad; it was a coalition of railroads that worked together to connect the Midwest and the Northeast via their combined rail lines. The Alphabet...
There are many people interested in former transportation companies, whether they were trucking companies, railroads, airlines or ocean lines. They are called “fallen flags,” and the term describes those companies whose corporate names have been dissolved through merger, bankruptcy or liquidation.
The Reading Railroad (pronounced “Redding”) was known officially as the Reading Company. It was one of a number of Northeastern railroads that was begun primarily to carry coal.
Unfortunately for the...
There are many people interested in former transportation companies, whether they were trucking companies, railroads, airlines or ocean lines. They are called “fallen flags,” and the term describes those companies whose corporate names have been dissolved through merger, bankruptcy or liquidation.
At one time there were four major railroads offering service from New York to Chicago. The three largest and best-known were the Pennsylvania Railroad, the New York Central and the Baltimore & Ohio.
The...
Brain E. Gorton, Conrail’s president and chief operating officer since April, recently chatted with FreightWaves about his vision for Conrail, a U.S. Northeast terminal railroad jointly owned by CSX (NASDAQ: CSX) and Norfolk Southern (NYSE: NSC). As described in an October 2019 FreightWaves piece, Conrail “performs car switching and yard classification work for its two owners, Norfolk Southern and CSX. It does not bill shippers or participate in the waybill. Strictly speaking, it serves as the...
Background
Prior to 1930, railroads were the primary freight haulers in the United States. Then, during World War II railroads also moved much of the war materiel for the U.S. armed forces. But despite that, railroads lost freight traffic to the growing trucking industry.
In the eastern United States, the region’s railroads were hurt financially by the rapid decline in coal tonnage as the nation increasingly shifted to oil in the 1960s. A consequence of the shift was that between 1967 and...
Short line operator Pioneer Lines appoints leadersPioneer Lines, a short line operator based in Denver, has a new chief financial officer and chief commercial officer.
Thirty-year industry veteran Thomas “Tom” Hurlbut has become the new CFO for Pioneer. Hurlbut recently served at Norfolk Southern (NYSE: NSC), where he performed roles including vice president and controller and interim CFO. He also served as vice president of audit and compliance, where he oversaw the ethics compliance program,...
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Normally we view changes in the intermodal rail business as a series of national data, lane data or big railway company reports.
This report card is different.
This week we look at intermodal rail from the point of view of J.B. Hunt (JBHT stock symbol) as the enterprise.
J.B. Hunt is selected because this analyst has been tracking the company since 1990. It has...
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