RailAmerica News

Gary O. Marino is building another railroad business in Boca Raton. Marino formerly ran publicly traded RailAmerica, a Boca-based business started in the 1980s that grew to more than 40 short-line railroads ...

“We fully intend to restore service to shippers on the Coos Bay Line”

Central Oregon & Pacific Railroad says it will seek authority to abandon the railroad line that runs between the Eugene and Coos Bay areas. via PDXGuide.com

By Brandi Smith May 13, 2008 Eugene, Ore. -- RailAmerica, the owner of the Coos Bay Rail Line, filed paperwork on Monday, asking for federal approval to abandon the line. via KEZI

“This board has been very patient, but I would just suggest that the lack of progress on reopening the line is testing the board's patience”

Members of the Surface Transportation Board contend RailAmerica should never have purchased the spur line between Coquille and Eugene if it wasn't in a position to maintain the 136-mile line. via The News-Review

After the failure of Proposition 1, elected officials in the Puget Sound area were looking, almost desperately, for ways to "do something" to alleviate our traffic woes. via Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Oregon members of Congress are criticizing the Central Oregon & Pacific Railroad and it's parent company RailAmerica for the way they are operating the Coos Bay and Siskiyou rail lines. via KDRV

“It grows out of something larger”

Regional shippers and several members of Oregon's Congressional delegation say the owner of a closed railroad line has shirked its duties and urged federal regulators to increase their oversight of carriers. via KGW-TV Portland

“The gap between the parties was too great to begin with, and subsequent counter-offers resulted in no meaningful progress”

Negotiations between rail shippers and Central Oregon and Pacific Railroad over proposed rate hikes on the Siskiyou line between Northern California and Southern Oregon have broken down. via The News-Review

“There wasn't that much movement”

Central Oregon & Pacific Railroad has told Timber Products and Roseburg Forest Products that it will continue service over the Siskiyou Summit at least through May 6. In January, the RailAmerica unit that ... via Medford Mail Tribune

Federal railroad officials are questioning the length of an emergency closure of an Oregon short-haul freight rail line, and have given owners of the Central Oregon and Pacific Railroad 30 days to prove the ... via American Shipper

“It does not appear that there is any reason for the railroad to delay either restoring the tunnels and providing service, or, if CORP does not want to serve the Line anymore, to seek relief from the obligation to provide service”

A coalition of shippers opposed to the closure of the rail line from Coquille to Eugene hailed an order Friday from the federal Surface Transportation Board that demands Central Oregon & Pacific Railroad and ... via The News-Review

“The rules of the STB are arcane and not well known, so I can't say exactly what the implications will be, but the point is that this is a fairly extraordinary rebuke of RailAmerica and the CORP”

The federal Surface Transportation Board on Friday ordered Central Oregon & Pacific Railroad and its parent company, RailAmerica, to show why the railroad's failure to reopen the rail line between Eugene and ... via The News-Review

“It was a collective effort and we are very proud of the outcome.”

Members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen have ratified their second collective bargaining agreement with the Missouri & Northern Arkansas Railroad, a RailAmerica regional railroad ... via Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers a...

“Obviously, Fortress has the resources to do what is right as it relates to CORP and RailAmerica investing in the infrastructure on the Siskiyou and Coos Lines”

Posted by Mark Larabee, The Oregonian March 14, 2008 08:59AM Categories: Breaking News The parent company of a cash-strapped Oregon railroad is making headlines for it's quirky financial dealings with quirkier ... via The Oregonian

“The transaction is within a corporate family and will not result in any adverse changes in service levels, significant operational changes, or a change in the competitive balance with carriers outside the corporate family”

Fortress Investment Group L.L.C. is seeking Surface Transportation Board approval to merge RailAmerica Inc. via UTU News

Boca Raton -based RailAmerica Inc . , a short line and regional rail service provider, filed notice with the state Wednesday that it would be laying off 95 employees effective June 1. The staff reduction is ... via South Florida Sun-Sentinel

The provincial government should put a limit on how much rail-line owners can charge property owners for crossing tracks to reach their land, the Nova Scotia Association of Realtors said Tuesday. via CBC

“Our facility at Weed is unique in that no finished goods are manufactured there”

Another Southern Oregon wood products firm has notified Central Oregon & Pacific Railroad it intends to file a complaint with the federal government alleging the Siskiyou Line operator has failed to fulfill its ... via Medford Mail Tribune

Railroad executives say they're still evaluating Governor Kulongoski's most recent position on a closed spur line that links Eugene and the Oregon coast. via KMTR Eugene

“RailAmerica's plan was, and remains, the only practical, viable plan, and the one that presents the shippers and the state with the most cost-effective path for the safe restoration of service”

RailAmerica officials are evaluating a letter sent to them this week from Oregon Gov. via The News-Review