Word: rails
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...coming months, has been working hard to find common ground with Boston’s leaders, who became irate this spring at Harvard’s purchase of a 91-acre plot which includes part of the turnpike as well as the area’s major rail yard...
Criticism came from leaders like Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino and Secretary Grabauskas, who said that Harvard’s eventual development of the land would force out the area’s rail yard, an essential contributor to the local economy...
Officials from the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) also threatened to take the land from Harvard by eminent domain if the yard—long eyed as a site for commuter-rail storage—was not given adequate protections by the University...
According to the final sale agreement, Harvard is prohibited from using land currently occupied by freight company CSX, the turnpike, or by the MBTA’s service tracks without prior agreement from those parties. And if the University ever decides to build on former rail land, it must first seek the approval of the state transportation secretary...
Matthais Raith is showing Europe that railroads can be a growth industry. The 53-year-old native of Kaiserslautern runs a private German railroad company called Rail4Chem, which specializes in transporting hazardous chemicals, including sulfuric acid and paraffin. At a time when most state-owned rail-freight companies are losing money and customers, Raith's sales have almost tripled in the past two years, to €24 million. Rail4Chem was founded by the chemical giant BASF in 1999 after it bought a polyurethane and fertilizer plant in eastern Germany, only to find that state-owned Deutsche Bahn (DB) wasn...