Ex-Pullman chairman re-enters rail world with Bethlehem deal

Chicago Sun-Times;  May 7, 1991 ;     366 words ......to purchase Bethlehem Steel Corp.'s Freight Car Division for an undisclosed price. TMB...investment firm, for the deal. Bethlehem's Freight Car Division, a $200 million-a-year business...and hopper cars used to haul coal. The Freight Car Division is the third-largest U.S. ...

HEROISM ON THE RAILS ; Trying to determine how car got loose

The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA;  March 27, 2008 ;     387 words ......lumberyard as they try to determine how a freight car got loose before it rolled downhill...whether the brake was ever set on the freight car," said Scott Farmelant, spokesperson...reports indicate it was not set." The freight car was parked Tuesday at Cohenno Inc...

Train engineer stood his post ; More details emerge in rail crash Focus is...

The Boston Globe;  March 27, 2008 ;     700+ words ......had 20 seconds to react as a runaway freight car came barreling around a tree-shrouded...could get the train into reverse, the freight car smacked the sitting locomotive, with...people, to determine how the runaway freight car rolled nearly 3 miles from a Stoughton...

freight car

Webster's NewWorld Dictionary;      22 words ...Webster's NewWorld Dictionary 01-01-1988 freight car a railroad car for transporting freight Copyright 1994, 1991, 1988 Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Train engineer recounts moments before crash ; MBTA releases radio...

The Boston Globe;  March 28, 2008 ;     513 words ......picture of the moments before a runaway freight car smashed into Gomes's train on Tuesday...the commuter train into reverse, the freight car slammed into it, knocking Gomes across...yard called police, warning that the freight car had gained access to the commuter rail...

CHAOS IN CANTON ; Investigators try to determine how a freight car got...

The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA;  March 26, 2008 ;     528 words ......today they haven't figured out how a freight car broke loose from their yard, rolled...The train stopped before the runaway freight car hit it at about 5:20 p.m., a short distance...from the Canton Junction station. The freight car smashed into the front of the train...

TRIMMED JOHNSTOWN ATTRACTIVE TO BUYERS: ALSO COULD MAKE ITS OWN...

Crain's Chicago Business;  May 31, 1999 ;     437 words ...After selling its freight car operations, Johnstown America Industries...recent agreement to sell its rail freight car operations to a management-led group...from $14 before announcement of the freight car divestiture. The stock had been...

150 injured in Canton train crash.(News)

The Boston Herald;  March 26, 2008 ;     424 words ......the brakes seconds before a runaway freight car - rolling uncontrolled from a siding...longer moving when it was struck by a CSX freight car that rolled off a branch onto the main...bound for Stoughton, when the bulkhead freight car crashed into it at 5:20 p.m., causing...

Rail union wants wider probe of Canton crash

The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA;  March 31, 2008 ;     154 words ......of a commuter train and a runaway freight car in Canton. About 150 people were hurt Tuesday when a freight car carrying lumber slammed into the Stoughton-bou...at whether the brake was set on the freight car, which rolled onto the tracks and...

Layoffs continue at Thrall

The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL;  February 15, 2002 ;     230 words ...CLINTON - Clinton's freight car plant will lay off most of its 35...facility. Employees at Thrall Trinity Freight Car were given federally required notice...plant would be back in operation if freight car orders increase. "We have to be...

CSR PLANS TO BUILD ASIAN TOP RAILWAY FREIGHT CAR BASE

AsiaInfo Services;  August 24, 2006 ;     175 words ......CSR Plans to Build Asian Top Railway Freight Car Base WUHAN, Aug 24, 2006 (SinoCast via...Reserve Center to set up CSR railway freight car company in the city. CSR will make an...company, and it will become a railway freight car research and development, manufacturing...

FIRE DESTROYS TRAIN FREIGHT CAR.(Local)

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  November 8, 1999 ;     46 words ...CAPTION(S): Color Photo Fire Capt. Greg Taft walks away from a smoldering freight car after cooling it down with water. The freight car, parked on tracks at 1441 W. Bayaud Ave., was reported on fire at about 9 p.m. Saturday...

The News-Gazette, Champaign-Urbana, Ill., Vermilion County Business...

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  July 14, 1999 ;     645 words ......within a 30-mile radius of Danville. For more information, call Odle at 442-4400. FREIGHT CAR SERVICES GETS NEW OWNER: A Danville freight car manufacturer Freight Car Services Inc., which manufactures, rebuilds and retrofits freight cars, was purchased...

1994. Loading grain into a freight car. (PAR66720)

Magnum Photos;  January 1, 1994 ;     143 words ......01-01-1994 1994. Loading grain into a freight car. Keywords: Rail Railroad tracks Granary...Human being 1994. Loading grain into a freight car. CANADA. 1994. Loading grain into a freight car. CANADA. CANADA. Pacific Railroad. 1994...

RETRAINING, WAGE SUBSIDIES APPROVED FOR FREIGHT CAR AMERICA WORKERS

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 23, 2007 ;     211 words ......announced today that former employees of Freight Car America are eligible for retraining...work force more quickly. Workers of Freight Car America, a subsidiary of Johnstown America...production and sales have declined at Freight Car America because of increases in imports...