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• KBF Transport 1950s

  
  Viewliner Ltd. — Authority: 122
  3 great 1950s postcards from Knotts Berry Farm. More of my favorite transportation postcards. The text that I have noted is printed on the back of the postcards. KNOTTS BERRY FARM - Buena Park, Calif - Showing old time locomotive train, which encircles Farm. Wide eyed tourists, by the thousands, throng here daily. ...
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• Warren Buffett’s $26 billion gamble on the next big thing

  
  JordonCooper.com — Authority: 475
  This is huge Most investors looking for the "next big thing" seek out whiz-bang investments like alternative energy, lifesaving biotech drugs, handheld Internet devices and, for doomsayers, hard assets like gold. Railroads, which had their heyday in another era, are rarely mentioned as a must-have investment ...
  11 hours ago

• Hundreds Dead, Thousands Homeless and Hungry in El Salvador Following Hurricane Ida

  
  Symon Sez — Authority: 429
  Is Flooding In El Salvador News To You? Thousands Homeless in El Salvador While Hurricane Ida fizzled, as expected, prior to making a US landfall near Mobile, AL it’s previous life was much more eventful and devastating.  In El Salvador, well over 100 people are dead and scores more missing after some ...
  12 hours ago

• (BNI) Warren Buffett Takes the Train to Work – Why You Should Follow His Lead

  
  Stock Blog Hub — Authority: 506
  by Tony Daltorio, Investment U Research We already knew that legendary investor Warren Buffett was bullish on the U.S. railroad industry through his holdings in Burlington Northern Santa Fe (NYSE: BNI ) and others. But his recent announcement that his Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: (BRKA) or ( BRKB ) firm ...
  15 hours ago

• Young John McCormack Makes New York Debut

  
  Times Traveler — Authority: 469
  "Much can be said in praise of this young tenors voice and his method of singing. His voice has a delightfully sympathetic quality, and his manner of singing is discreet and refined."
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• Warren Buffett To Sell Union Pacific & Norfolk Southern Stakes (UNP & NSC)

  
  market folly — Authority: 617
  Following Warren Buffett & Berkshire Hathaways announcement of their Burlington Northern (BNI) purchase, we now see that he is set to make another round of moves in the railroad industry. As of last portfolio disclosures, Buffett owned shares in Burlington Northern, Union Pacific, and Norfolk Southern. Upon his ...
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• Article Title Unknown

  
  Saturation — Authority: 124
  | home | >> | home | >> Voie ferrée - Just some train tracks in Toronto.
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• BN Western Star

  
  Viewliner Ltd. — Authority: 122
  The Burlington Northern Railroad was the product of a March 2, 1970 merger comprising the Great Northern Railway, the Northern Pacific Railway, the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, and the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway. On December 31, 1996, Burlington Northern merged with the Atchison, Topeka and ...
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• Nov. 9, 1963: Dual Disasters Stun Japan

  
  This Day In Tech — Authority: 639
  1963: Two industrial tragedies in Japan claim the lives of more than 600 people. The first accident occurred at the Miike coal mine between Omuta and Arao. Ten mining carts loaded with coal were being hauled to the surface at around 3:12 in the afternoon. One of the chains linking the carts together severed and ...
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• To Make South Republican, Deny Blacks the Vote, Senator Says

  
  Times Traveler — Authority: 469
  When reading The Times in 1909, sometimes you have to pinch yourself to be sure you are not dreaming of reading a satirical newspaper.
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• Awesome Train Set, Mr. Buffett

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  YOU ARE A RAILFAN IF... You obsess about tons of beautiful metal.
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• Santa Fe railway: the new Coke?

  
  Bearwatch — Authority: 470
  After two-and-a-half years, Warren Buffet has bought the rest of his railroad. Reasons?
  5 days ago

• Grand Plans for Rail in Denver Hit a Wall of Fiscal Realities

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  Voters in 2004 approved a $4.7 billion, 122-mile rail project; costs are now expected to be $7 billion. Most of the lines are still on the drawing board.
  6 days ago

• How Much Are China’s Railroads Worth?

  
  Managing The Dragon — Authority: 112
  The big news out of the United States this week was the $26.6 billion bid by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway for the 77 percent of the stock of Burlington Northern Sante Fe Corp. that it doesn’t already own. Taking into account Burlington Northern’s debt of $10 billion, Buffett’s offer values the company ...
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• Japanese Railways Hope Soothing Lights Will Curb Suicides

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  The approach, which has not been proven to work, is directed at people on railroad platforms who jump in front of trains.
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• Mummy Powder and the Household Use of the Egyptian Dead

  
  History Blog — Authority: 120
  Beginning in the 12th century, Arab physicians began to prescribe their patients a most unorthodox remedy: the ground remains of mummies procured from Egyptian tombs. As Islamic Arabs of the day did not regard the ancient Egyptians as ancestors, the practice was widely accepted and so-called mummy powder was in sold ...
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• Warren Buffetts big railroad buy is also a huge bet on coal

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 793
  Filed under: Energy , People , Berkshire Hathaway , Green If the Sage of Omaha is truly an oracle of future returns and a leading indicator for where the market is going, its hard not to think that U.S. carbon emissions will continue to grow apace and that the budding green revolution will be more bang than ...
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• Berkshire Hathaway buys BNSF

  
  Eric Joiner's Freightdawg.com - The Logistics and Supply Chain Blog! — Authority: 108
  Warren E. Buffett is officially a railroad tycoon, joining folks like Cornelius Vanderbilt and John D. Rockefeller.     For $34 billion dollars his investment company, Berkshire Hathaway, now will assume 100 percent control of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad (BNSF).    Buffett has been investing in ...
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• Buffett Bets Big on Railroads’ Future

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  Warren E. Buffett
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• Buffetts Bet on Trains

  
  Room for Debate — Authority: 730
  Railroads were once the engines of the U.S. economy. What role do they play now?
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