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The study shows there will be sustained pressure on rail networks over the next 10 to 15 years caused by forecast increases in the numbers of commuters.

The slow pace of trains in the U.S. can be maddening, particularly during delays on rail sidings for an hour or more to enable freight trains - which have the right-of-way - to pass.

These results are disappointing. Our rail and container-shipping businesses are taking steps to regain earnings momentum by lowering costs and improving efficiency,

The quicker we get a rail option, the better off we'll be because rail will get us off the roads,

The rail industry is going to have to work hard to demonstrate that these rises represent value for money.

We welcome their entry as a major operator into the rail line-haul business ... I think it's a good move for them and probably good for the industry.

The same Republicans who rail against frivolous lawsuits are happy to have their lawyers fire away when their candidate drops in polls. The president's job approval rating is in the 40s, and Republicans are launching their lawyers to try and save their campaign.

You have to have a system that appeals to a choice-rider. A light rail system is more appealing to that particular choice market.

You get more bang for the buck expanding capacity with rail than by building more lanes. The Eisenhower Interstate System is now mature. We need similar vision for the 21st century. We don't just need more lanes of pavement. We need to ask how we?re going to move freight in this country. And the answer should include rail.

Via Rail did an unbelievable job. We had our own car, had a hot meal, including Montreal smoked meat before the main entree and even had knives that weren't plastic. Any time on the road, you get real cutlery, you think, 'This is neat.' We thought about high-jacking the train.

We think the basic infrastructure in the country is going to be in very good shape, banking, finance, telecommunications, electric power, air and rail transportation.

We're disappointed that our proposal didn't go through, but we're ecstatic in the fact that they did choose rail because it brings rail back to Cape Breton.

Bob told me to get off the rail, which I did, when we came out of the first turn. He settled in real nice down the backside. I had three horses up ahead battling, and while it looked like we were losing some ground around the turn, I think the best part of the track was was three or four lanes off the rail ù exactly where Bob wanted to see this horse.

Even if the rail cars made by Siemens are slightly cheaper, it's a false economy that benefits no Canadian. It's vitally important to not only maintain high technology jobs in Canada, we also need to further develop our high technology industries whenever possible.

We are very pleased by both the robust demand for our rail services and our ability to move record first-quarter volumes more efficiently.

Rail industry experts have suggested that the increased length of CN trains along BC Rail's former corridor has significantly increased the potential for derailment and is jeopardizing public safety.

The one question that comes to our mind is how will the merger be viewed by rail shippers overall,

I wanted fast race and if it wasn't fast enough I was prepared to take the lead, but as it turned out I was happy to sit behind the pace. I was on the rail and got boxed in for most of the way and keep my wits about me and wait for the time to come to get out of there.

Streetcars have this wonderful ability to be pleasant to be around. They're not spewing exhaust at you. They're easy to get on. For the most part, they have the advantage over a bus that, like in all rail systems, people have great confidence that there's another one coming. They know where it will go,

Fairfield has to do with logistical location in Southeast Iowa with the rail and with the position of raw material markets that are available and the position with our markets that we're selling our fuel to.

We'd certainly rather see the rail cars through puffing and chugging, but that's never going to happen.

Russian women are not very good for figure skating. They are good for building rail tracks in Siberia, for example. They are just too strong and big.

Seeing the game from the goalie's perspective is a huge plus for coverage. The goalie cam fits our philosophy of taking viewers inside the glass as much as possible. This is why we're so interested in the new rail cam being developed by NHL, although not every rink can accommodate it.

Drawing the inside does concern me a little because the rail can often be off.

Some people were expecting not so good a result because of the dispute over the Western Australian rail contract. There's a bit of relief that the result is still a reasonable increase.

Commuter rail is a very ambitious endeavor. That is all the more reason we would want the Legislature to be involved in the process.

Coal prices will hold for 2006 and perhaps into 2007 due to the shortfall of supply. It takes a while to ramp up capacity of coal and there are only so many ships to ship it in and rail cars to move it in,

you've really got an auto-centric mentality among the bureaucratic elite. They've got absolutely no conception of the role that rail plays. ... All they're trying to do is to destroy the company and not have their fingerprints on it.

That tree has been hit (by cars) so many times. Before they put the guard rail in, it would keep cars that ran off the road from going all the way into the field." ()

Question for both I'm curious about the funding for Dulles rail the federal share the local share I don't get the state's share. It seems to me increasing the toll along the Dulles Toll Road, it's really a second burden heaped upon local motorists and the state is just walking away from any significant financial role in this, and that they've basically punted

Teamsters Canada Rail Conference is pleased to announce we have reached a tentative agreement in principle with Via Rail Canada.

There's no private investment occurring that is not supported by some type of public subsidy. The rail may make it more attractive to do ... but how soon that happens is conjecture, and there are factors in the valley where the private sector is still going to be cautious.

We think the court decision is a significant step to restore stability to the rail industry, ... Mainly we just wanted the board to revisit the way mergers are reviewed. We welcome that decision as a breather.

This acquisition is another key component in our strategy to build a comprehensive door-to-door global logistics operation that spans air, ocean, rail and truck transportation.

This is a big, audacious plan put together by obviously brilliant people. But you missed the boat. We don't need a rail system. We need housing.

This is a smart approach to managing rail capacity at a time of substantial growth in Canada's trade volumes with Pacific Rim countries. It will enhance the fluidity and capacity of both railroads in Vancouver and deliver better service to our port and terminal partners, while ensuring healthy rail competition between CN and CPR is maintained at the Port of Vancouver.

This is another piece of good news for rail to Dulles. We are almost finished with preliminary engineering studies, we have one tax district in place already collecting revenue and, hopefully, we will get another in the western portion of the district approved.

This is the first organizing victory for the Teamsters Rail Conference. This is proof that by dedicating experienced organizers to a group of workers who want to belong to a union, that challenges can be overcome. We won this election, and we look forward to many more.

If rail works there, and I believe it does, there is no doubt in my mind it will work here.

If random screening must be introduced, they should target select underground and rail stations rather than discriminating against individuals.

I'm not sure when we (as a league) will start talking about it. As far as downtown, we could be ready in '09 because the major hotels and the light rail would be completed.

If you look at it from a shareholder perspective, it's a good short-term move, since there is a difficult container shipping market now and it makes CSX a pure rail play, ... Five years from now, when container shipping goes through its cycle, there may be second thoughts. But given what's going on now, sure, it's a good move.

If you do your economic studies properly and count the cost of building and maintaining highways, as well as the cost of gasoline, then the cost of travel by light rail is not only merely competitive; it is actually less than what people normally look at.

Taxes don't seem to be the third rail they used to be.

The banking on the course allows for the new rail settings. With our new ability to move the rail even farther out than before, we'll be able to preserve the course much better than we were able to in the past.

It took her a while to pick up from that and she was probably only going to win by a neck but when she drifted back to the inside and found the rail she really put her mind on the job.

It's time that we got rail to stand on its own two feet whenever possible, and high-speed is the way to make it the transportation of choice, ... Transportation isn't any good if it doesn't solve a commuter's problem.

The next step (in pursuing a rail link) would be to do an alternatives analysis and a draft environmental impact statement. But we don't have a time frame for going forward, and we don't have the project in our capital budget.

Considering the massive infrastructure projects coming to the city, notably the series of new metro lines, airport light rail and expressway, the long term outlook for the city is incredibly positive.

Their plans are to construct a truss-manufacturing/building products distribution center in the industrial center of Hesperia. They will have rail access to their site.

The key to everything is building the rail spur,

It's ironic that these rail cars could be assembled in the United States where a law exists that requires American content when U.S. federal tax dollars are used in a transit project.

They could have built a new viaduct; instead, they chose to build a monorail, light rail and two stadiums.

If you think Social Security reform is the third rail of American politics, try coming out for gay marriage. It's a far more powerful issue.

Clearly, Greenbrier shares have had a great run year-to-date, up 39% versus the rail equipment group. We believe the best is yet to come.

In the city of Marina, I don't think anyone ever believed we'd ever bring back rail service.

By next year we should have all the main rail car types covered.

The T will respect the vote of the Town Meeting. They have asked us not to take any action on the rail bed until the 2006 Town Meeting, and we won't.

There was a risk he might duck left or right to either rail once he was in front, but Sheikh Mohammed was adamant that was what we should do and the plan has worked to perfection.

They basically said, 'If you get pushed over that sucks and you might get pepper sprayed,' ... We couldn't move because we were up against the rail and they showed no concern -- the railing really does hurt when you are being pushed up against it by thousands of people.

They were able to approach this individual who was hanging, telling him, 'Listen, to stay calm, and try to swing yourself back over to the rail to grab on until we're able to get to you.' And they were able to bring him down, where he met with the paramedics.

It's a major milestone in steady progression of the Light Rail system. We're reaching new markets and new neighborhoods and becoming a driving force in the job growth and development of the area. We plan on moving this system south in Bayonne and north and west to the Meadowlands.

It's a major milestone in the steady progression of the Light Rail system. We're reaching new markets and new neighborhoods and becoming a driving force in the job growth and development of the area. We plan on moving this system south in Bayonne and north and west to the Meadowlands.

To tell you the truth although it would put £500 in my pockets to specify my own patent rails, I cannot do so after the experience I have had.

The future is plain and very bleak, ... Without change there will no rail transport in much of the Union by 2012.

The guide rail needs to be completed in some areas, and there are some roadway drainage issues. We need to verify that the road is draining properly.

The Hatfield tragedy was a terrible event for everyone involved. Lessons have been learnt and the rail industry has changed enormously for the better over the past five years.

You can ship corn out of Iowa on rail cars. That costs more money for transportation, and that means a lower price for the farmer.

The fixed rail or the guide rail, whatever you call it, is certainly possible, but I don't think it's probable. I think the cost, which will continue to escalate, will always make it difficult.

The Hudson Valley (north of New York City) has been very hard hit. There are tens of thousands of homes without power. The commuter rail lines (north of the city) have been really washed out, so it's going to take some time to get them back to normal.

This has been the fastest growing rail business for 20 years, and we anticipate further growth.

Barbecue is the third rail of North Carolina politics.

There's a Metro line that runs right through here, ... We are in the next four or five years hopefully going to build our light rail system and streetcar system that has been funded by the federal government this year. We are planning ahead.

Every one is free to become whatever he can make of himself; free to transform himself from a rail splitter or a tanner or a canal-boy, into the nation's President. Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers. Wealth, position, influence, are prizes offered for energy; and every farmer's boy, every apprentice and clerk, every friendless and penniless immigrant, is free to enter the lists.

It's simply a lack of rail transportation of coal to Laramie River Station. We are concerned about a decline in service and efficiency.

Earnings have suffered this quarter and throughout the year as we have changed the composition of our company and implemented the most complex rail merger in history, ... We had difficulty handling strong fourth-quarter demand and changing traffic flows, particularly in the northwestern sector of our new, combined rail network. As a result of this congestion, locomotive, equipment and crew costs were much higher than we expected.

That rail line is a vital part of our American economy, and it needs to be in a place where it is not at risk from hurricanes.

They are private companies in the business of making money by moving freight. So what it will come down to, as a freight rail operator, they have to be convinced that allowing passenger rail is a good business decision.

We were probably going to have to go by bus, or whatever alternative means that Via Rail arranged for us, if they were going to.

We're very pleased to see both the shipping lines and the union recognize Alaska's unique dependence on shipping, ... Everything from the Sunday funnies to election pamphlets were affected by this lockout. There is no rail line and only one highway, and it would cost about twice as much and take considerably longer.

Those rail assets are being used to funnel commodities all over the place. With Babcock & Brown involved it tells you that they expect a fair bit of growth.

Those that refuse the covenant, reproach it, or rail against it, ought to be looked at as enemies to it and dealt with accordingly.

Its first policy is to avoid interruptions to rail and air transportation.

There weren't enough rail anchors and the rail had worn away.

This is the ground-level work that will determine how the state designs the rail and constructs the project.

This is the most important rail project in New England.

I approached opera from the theater side, ... I used to rail against the clichs of the form, all those sopranos in nightgowns dying in Act 2. So what do I have in my first opera? A soprano in a nightgown dying in Act 2.

I was never a rail-thin person.

We're going off the rails on a crazy train.

The main problem with rail is flexibility and affordability.

The future had suddenly become unknowable: anything could happen: the train of my life had jumped the rails and headed off across the fields and coming down the lane with me, then.

Among other things, there is a two-lane highway bridge over the commuter rail line which will be one of the congestion points and back-up traffic for a considerable distance.

I had many decades of me time and now I just don't have that anymore. There are days when I rail against it.

The Department of Transportation is committed to a fair and inclusive process as we implement a new Congressional mandate to charge commuter railroads access fees along the Northeast Corridor. As part of that process, we are reaching out to the affected railroads and states for input as we evaluate every aspect of passenger rail operations, including capital investments and ownership of tracks, to determine how best to proceed.

Most men who rail against women are railing at one woman only.

If you hear a man rail at the Bible, you can usually conclude that he never reads it.

There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do nothing but rail.