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However, they believe an efficient rail freight system would entice businesses to use trains instead of lorries or trailers for long-distance movement of goods. Assoc Prof Dr Law Teik Hua ...

Yet there is no doubt about rail’s fundamental strengths for fast freight. Trains used to be the default means of delivering time-critical items such as letters and newspapers. Even though ...

New regulations were just approved Tuesday, requiring a two-person minimum crew on all freight trains ... are especially important for long trains. Some of those trains are three miles in length ...

Federal officials are planning to impose a mandate that freight railroads operate trains with two-person crews ... that the train crew size rule is long overdue and ensures nationwide uniformity ...

Thieves have targeted freight trains running through the ... But the crews rarely encounter them, it said, because the trains are so long and the thieves take care to evade detection.

Excursion trains in recent years have only gone as far as Hawley. Carrick stated that with resumption of freight business ... said that SRS is negotiating a long-term agreement with DL&S.