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Fortune 500 rankings list four Hampton Roads companies
Newport News-based Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc., Smithfield Foods Inc, Norfolk Southern Corp. and Dollar Tree Inc. made the Fortune 500 list released Monday, the Virginian-Pilot reported. Read the Virginian-Pilot story here. Read the full list...Tags: Dollar Tree Inc., Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Smithfield Foods, Hampton Roads, Huntington Ingalls Industries
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Indy rail service to speed freight
Associated PressEconomic development officials hope a new rail service linking Indianapolis to West Coast ports in Canada will save central Indiana businesses time and money by bypassing a bottleneck in Chicago rail yards and help transform the capital into more of a...Tags: Canada, Elgin, Joliet, Travel, Road Transportation
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Train safety record declines
Sun StaffThe derailment and fire involving a chemical-laden freight train in Baltimore last month is just the latest in a pattern of rail accidents on the rise since 1997 - about the time that a string of multibillion-dollar rail mergers left the industry...Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing, Union Pacific Corporation, Louisiana, Disasters and Accidents, Companies and Corporations
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Avoiding tunnel is impractical, costly, CSX says
Sun StaffAny attempts to reduce the flow of hazardous chemicals through Baltimore's Howard Street Tunnel, where a chemical-laden train derailed July 18 and burned for four days under ground, would face almost insurmountable legal and practical obstacles, safety...Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Justice System, Natural Resources, Companies and Corporations, Transportation Accidents
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Tunnel fire choking East Coast rail freight
Sun StaffHigh-priority cargo found ways around Baltimore's Howard Street Tunnel yesterday, but knots in the East Coast's rail network will grow increasingly tight with each day that the major north-south artery remains closed, freight customers said. Bethlehem...Tags: Canton (Baltimore, Maryland), Metal and Mineral, Bethlehem Steel Corp., Travel, Railway Transportation
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Rare map collector explores evolving idea of Virginia
The first time William C. Wooldridge held an antique map of Virginia, he was a young Army officer taking a meandering, homesick stroll through the streets of Heidelberg, Germany. Catching his eye from an old print shop window, the early 1600s map...
Tags: John Smith, Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia), Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Library of Congress, Colleges and Universities
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Norfolk Southern reports higher profit
Norfolk Southern Corp. reported a 10 percent higher net income in this year's first quarter compared to last year's. “We are working to ensure that our rail franchise continues to thrive regardless of how our business mix changes,” said...
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The day ahead in business April 23
Reports: PMI manufacturing index flash for April, 7:58 a.m.; FHFA housing price index for February, 8 a.m.; New home sales for March, 9 a.m.; Richmond Fed manufacturing index for April, 9 a.m. Local earnings: Anixter International Inc., DeVry Inc.,...
Tags: Johnson Controls Incorporated, Imax Corp., Unisys Corporation, First Busey Corporation, U.S. Airways
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Church Lane bridge work could be completed by end of May
The long-planned repairs on the Church Lane bridge in Lower Macungie could be completed by the end of May, township officials said Thursday night. Norfolk Southern, which has rail tracks below the bridge, has given its approval for the project and a...Tags: Spring Creek, Religion and Belief
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Franklin County drivers forced to slow down with multiple road projects ongoing
roxann.miller@herald-mail.com“Road Work Ahead” signs are popping up around Franklin County, Pa., slowing traffic and fraying nerves. “There are a number of projects that start in the late summer or early fall and resume in the spring for final paving,” said...Tags: Franklin County (Pennsylvania)
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Move to silence train horns in Goshen
WSBT-TVGOSHEN – People who live in Goshen know you can hear train horns around the clock, but a new study is looking at whether it’s possible to silence those horns along a stretch of tracks near 9th Street. Jeannie Petry is all too familiar with... -
Police determine cause of deadly Goshen train accident
GOSHEN – Police say suicide was the cause of a deadly train-pedestrian collision in Goshen that killed a New Paris man Sunday night. Goshen police say shortly before 8 p.m., officers learned about a pedestrian who was struck by a freight train...
Tags: Transportation Accidents, Railway Accidents
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