Year: 2003

An unlikely new and environmentally friendly track lubricant — made from soybeans — is now in use on Norfolk Southern Railway.

Eric L. Butler, Union Pacific vice president – supply, has received the Durham Western Heritage Museum African-American Heritage Award.

The nation’s freight railroads announced that they expect to reduce the rate of greenhouse gas emissions by 18 percent by 2012, as part of President Bush’s “Climate VISION” initiative.