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SPECIAL REPORT: Two Train Cars Forward, Three Cargo Ships Back

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The Railroad sector was the big winner with a 15.3 percent rise with companies also using intermodal rail help to offset the impacts of driver shortages and the costs of acquiring and maintaining new equipment. Two Class 1 and one local railroad are important parts of the transportation system. fuel consumption dropped.

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FEATURE STORY: Logistics Clusters Are Jobs Magnets

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Within a 900 mile drive of Hoosier Energy services are communities from Dallas to Jacksonville and New York City to Minneapolis. In addition, by the end of 2012 a new interstate—I-69—will be open for traffic in southwestern Indiana, a brand new highway that opens up new territory for potential logistics facility sites.

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Industry Focus: Food Processing – The Process Of Consistency

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Situated in Upstate New York, Oswego County is located centrally to New York City, Boston, Washington, D.C., 1,677 miles of class 1 railroads. There also is Arkansas’s state-of-the-art railroad infrastructure comprising three Class I systems: Union Pacific, BNSF Railway and Kansas City Southern Railway.