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We would end up with two railroad crossings instead of a single railroad crossing and that would create some operational problems with stacking up cars when a train might be coming. It is also very difficult to have the railroads come up with a new crossing because they are mandated by Congress to eliminate roadway crossings.

Mik Bredis

There's no question this has been a challenging month for CN but accidents are very rare in this railroad and in other railroads. I think that's why there's so much attention being paid.

Graham Dallas

There may be investors out there who looked at these results and decided to take their money off the table and take another look at the railroads.

Tony Hatch

The state has higher priorities, the city has higher priorities, the railroads individually have higher priorities, and it's still needed.

Jim Labelle

Before there were paved roads or railroads or airplanes or the Internet, there was the Mississippi running down to New Orleans.

Ari Kelman

If you look at our record and their record, they are the ones that have damaged the confidence of shippers in railroads, not us.

Mark Hallman

The railroads are maxed out.

David Feider

Railroads are like juggling. If I keep tossing more balls at you, it?s not going to work. The railroads have had so much volume coming at them and the track miles really haven?t changed that much.

Randy Cousins

Visitors will be surprised to see the variety of people (that worked) on the railroads.

Dick Hillman

When business revived in the closing years of the nineteenth century, the history of American railroads began a new chapter.

John Moody

The combination of a low federal commitment, the absence of a state commitment and the railroads' uncertainty about how much of a commitment they're willing to make makes us very, very concerned. We need to make sure it gets done.

Jim Labelle

Planning and looking beyond the next few days is absolutely the right thing for the railroads to do.

Tony Hatch

Railroads are the primary economic beneficiaries. It's a difficult project for the public sector.

John Gates

It's a new day dawning for the railroads.

Don Hodges

The railroads have worked to boost supplies, but we are still not getting the (Powder River Basin) deliveries we need.

Melissa Mchenry

As a consumer, you're more confident in the railroads than you were 10 years ago.

Terry Gardner

In fact there were railroads long before there were steam engines or locomotives.

John Moody

Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.

Paul A. Samuelson

Just as railroads and interstate highways shaped development in the past, the migration of knowledge workers will shape prosperity in the future. Cities that disregard this basic fact do so at their peril.

Joseph Cortright

This type of bond gives us a much easier time to create and finance at a lower cost. Hopefully we can be far enough along when the next authorization comes around that we can reach and grab it. It is the first time the railroads have been able to tap into the tax-exempt market.

Randy Topel

Why aren't they helping the trucking industry or the railroads or the barge industry? If they help one, they need to help all.

John Pincavage

Transportation has been the backbone of the Chicago economy ever since the city was founded, ... First it was water, then railroads, then highways and then aviation.

Richard M. Daley

Without immigrants, we never would've built this place. There were about 100 Japanese here that raised crops of lettuce and peas. The railroad companies brought in migrant workers. The Chinese and Native Americans built the railroads, and a lot were Irish, German or some other nationality.

Bill Burnett

People will have a chance to see some of what goes into making a railroad operate. It's so historic - when you think of railroads going back to the middle of the 19th century.

Dick Hillman

We really haven't physically merged the railroads at all.

John Bromley

The railroads were still pretty strained last year.

Paul Bingham

First of all, the project couldn't go on without it. This is the best agreement for all the railroads involved.

James Dermody