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Canadian oil rides the rails to the U.S., with or without Keystone XL
2013-11-06 15:28:14| Railroads - Topix.net
Even if the controversial Keystone XL pipeline is never built, hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil soon will be riding into the U.S. from western Canada on rail cars .
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Shepherd to build Hitachi Rails manufacturing plant in UK
2013-11-04 01:00:00| Railway Technology
UK-based Shepherd Building Group has won a contract to build a 43,000m train manufacturing plant for Hitachi Rail Europe in the north-east of England.
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Rails Build for Intermodal
2013-11-01 09:15:22| Railroads - Topix.net
The fortunes of the North American railroads are increasingly cast in a mix of freight commodities.
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Looking for a Way Around Keystone XL, Canadian Oil Hits the Rails
2013-10-31 01:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Over the past two years, environmentalists have chained themselves to the White House fence and otherwise coalesced around stopping the Keystone XL pipeline as their top priority in the fight against global warming. But even if President Obama rejects the pipeline, it might not matter much. Oil companies are already building rail terminals to deliver oil from western Canada to the United States, and even to Asia. Since July, plans have been announced for three large loading terminals in western...
Swelling lakes pose threat to Tibet rails
2013-10-23 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Xinhua: Swelling lakes on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, a notable sign of global warming, are threatening the safety of the worlds highest railway, according to climate and ecological experts. One flooded lake is now only 8 kilometers away from a section of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway in the depopulated area of Hol Xil Nature Reserve, according to the latest satellite monitoring by the Qinghai Provincial Academy of Meteorological Sciences. Liu Baokang, engineer with the academys remote-sensing and ecological...
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