11.   Both companies expect that most of the growth in rail traffic will be north-south, rather than east-west.

12.   Consider, for example, the Union Pacific-Southern Pacific merger, which has snarled rail traffic in the Southwest for a year.

13.   Conductors struck and disrupted rail traffic around the country Friday.

14.   Few shippers in Presidio or Brewster counties need the railroad, although the development of large deposits of humate, a fertilizer, has stirred interest in rail traffic.

15.   Like other TGVs, Thalys runs mostly on a dedicated track, with gentle curves and no other rail traffic.

16.   Norfolk Southern and CSX Corp. are battling for control of Conrail, the Philadelphia-based railroad prized for its dominance of rail freight traffic in the northeastern U.S.

17.   Should investors listen when a one-time professional blackjack player says he uses freight rail traffic to chart the direction of interest rates?

18.   Speaking at an NTSB hearing in March, Union Pacific President Jerry Davis admitted the increased rail traffic stemming from the merger had raised the risk of accidents.

19.   That future arrives on Tuesday, as Norfolk Southern and CSX, which already dominate commercial rail traffic in much of the East, take over chunks of Conrail.

20.   The acquisition is also said to have snarled rail traffic, costing cost shippers billions of dollars.