Domestic News
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Railway Age is honoring 25 “Fast Trackers” for this year’s 25 Under 40 awards program. Congratulations to GBX’s Bryon Arita on making Railway Age’s 2024 Fast Trackers list! |
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Union Pacific Railroad hauled a record 352,000 carloads of rock in 2023, exceeding the previous record it set in 2006 by a few hundred carloads and increasing overall carloads by 23% compared with 2021 and 9% compared with 2022. |
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Steel manufacturer Nucor Corp. will devote about $3.5 billion to capital projects this year, a jump of nearly 60% from 2023, as its executives seek to capitalize on the investment sprees reshaping the infrastructure, semiconductor and energy sectors. |
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In a letter sent yesterday to U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Association of American Railroads President and CEO Ian Jefferies addressed what the association characterizes as misrepresentations of the freight-rail industry’s safety record. |
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After decades of battling against more ethanol going into U.S. cars, Big Oil is joining Big Agriculture in a push to expand the use of the corn-based biofuel. |
