By William C. Vantuono, Editor While Florida and California’s high speed rail projects are getting the most attention in the media (probably because 200-mph passenger trains are considered a whole lot more
By William C. Vantuono, Editor At 50, Matt Rose, Railway Age’s 2010 Railroader of the Year, is among the youngest of our industry’s top echelon. Rose (left, with me in his Fort
By Scott T. Matheson, CFA, CPA Senior Director, Investment Research, CAPTRUST Financial Advisors On Nov. 3, Warren Buffett announced his company’s intention to acquire BNSF. He commented on CNBC that “[the acquisition
Let me make this perfectly clear: Warren Buffett is not Snehal Amin. (Remember him? He’s the hedge fund honcho who tried, and failed, to hijack CSX.) Warren Buffett understands railroads. Warren Buffett
By Anthony Kruglinski I had a conversation last month with Pat Mazzanti, president of Railroad Appraisal Associates (formerly Norman Seip & Associates), the oldest rail equipment appraisal organization in North America. I
By William C. Vantuono, Editor So, it looks like we’re going to have at least some form of high speed rail in this country, after all these years. Some of my European
By William C. Vantuono, Editor The Federal Railroad Administration is now evaluating a tall stack of applications for high speed passenger rail projects—roughly $100 billion worth for an $8 billion ARRA (American
By Richard F. Timmons President, American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association Question: How many man-hours are hired when a short line railroad spends $1 million on upgrading typical short line track?
By William C. Vantuono, Editor Russia. China. Japan. France. Britain. Belgium. Germany. Spain. Italy. Taiwan. South Korea. The first two countries are the newest additions to the high speed rail club, which
By William C. Vantuono, Editor One of the best ways to compare the performance of the railroads against the economy is to examine some of the data that economists—those people that practice