The Railroad Week in Review:
Fourth Quarter 1998
- December 31, 1998
Year-end ranking of rail stocks' YTD performance; STB decrees UP should keep what
it has in Houston; CN-IC merger fallout; NS capex plans for 1999; Aussies eat
into US coal producers' offshore market share.
- Week ending December 26, 1998
Christmas; no issue.
- Week ending December 19, 1998
WC stock performance outlook; Rip Watson on pending APL sale; new KCS
website; CSX announces new Chicago-NY schedules; Chicago pulls a
Cleveland; Possible rail passenger franchises in Canada; UP tells
STP Houston "back to normal."
- Week ending December 12, 1998
CSX Intermodal contracts put trains on NS; BNSF reorganizes
merchandise business unit; DM&E wins STB approval for Powder River
Basin line; Greenbrier gets $50 mm order for double-stack platforms.
- Week ending December 5, 1998
Railroad relevance to public at large; CSX opens "Arsenal Connection"
in Philadelphia; CP vs. CSX New York to Montreal; Wisconsin Central
in Jordan rail consortium; Shortline car supply.
- Week ending November 28, 1998
Thanksgiving: no issue.
- Week ending November 21, 1998
More on the AAR "Town Hall" meetings; Conrail split set tentatively
at 3/1/99; Norfolk Southern's Jim McClellan re passenger trains on
freight railraods; Union Pacific stock performance YTD; RTEX opens
another Canadian line.
- Week ending November 14, 1998
Grossman on growth at Emons; Providence & Worcester cuts debt load
and interest expense; Aden Adams back at CSX; Union Pacific hiring
60,000; STB enviro impact study blesses CN+IC; Shippers tell AAR
they need better communications with railroads.
- Week ending November 7, 1998
Emons posts 24% revenue increase for the quarter; GNWR revenues
up 47%; RAIL posts 50% revenue increase; RTEX sells half its
Brazil interests; Trans-con perishables then and now; More
on mix courtesy of CSX.
- Week ending October 31, 1998
Earnings Week: CSX, Kansas City Southern, Norfolk Southern, Wisconsin Central;
commentary on revenue per car as a measurement of yield; relationship between
yield and customer satisfaction.
- Week ending October 24, 1998
Earnings: BNSF, UP, Railtex, CSXT, CN; Hub. CSXT's Aden Adams; CP/NS bridge route;
grain prices and car supply; Wisconsin Central tentative UTU settlement;
Kansas City Southern backs off spinoff.
- Week ending October 17, 1998
Recent stock performance among railroads, vendors; potential stack train
shakeup; Union Switch & Signal signs with Britain's Railtrack; Westinghouse
Air Brake's new acquisition; Trinity Industries; Conrail T&E employees on
the [new] job; shortline rail access issues deadline October 30; correction
re GNWR ownership.
- Week ending October 10, 1998
Earnings Week preview; South Orient abandonment nixed by STB; AZRC
profile; Kansas City Southern spinoff plans in limbo?; Genesee &
Wyoming expansions; RailTex carloading growth;
- Week ending October 3, 1998
Third quarter results and market commentary; Norfolk Southern on shared asset area
management; New York Stock Exchange history; Tales from the Abyss--short lines
and Class Is on their interrelationships.
- Index for Jul - Sep 98
- Index for Apr - Jun 98
- Index for Jan - Mar 98
- Index for April - Dec 97
- Index for Dec 96 - Mar 97
Tell Us What You Think!
The goal of this site is to help short line managers, railroad
investors, and students of the industry find the tools necessary in
their respective areas of interest. The beauty of this medium lies
in its ability to educate and inform as it communicates. Send
comments to
rblanchard@aol.com
|