31.   Unusually severe winter weather in the Canadian plains has delayed loading of rail cars with wheat from elevators, and heavy snow has disrupted rail traffic in British Columbia.

32.   U.S. railroad companies are expected to report higher third-quarter earnings because a strong economy has spurred rail traffic.

33.   Whichever company wins Conrail would form a combination that would dominate rail freight traffic in the eastern U.S. and be the largest North American railroad in terms of revenue.

34.   Yet the potential of the merged line may pale beside the early power of the Southern Pacific, the company that opened the West to cross-country rail traffic.

35.   Prosecutors opened an investigation for charges of endangering rail traffic, but have no leads or suspects, she said.

36.   Rail traffic between Cologne and Mainz was disrupted by the flooding.

37.   Rail traffic is expected to resume within two weeks.

38.   Rail traffic was halted because one tunnel was flooded and many lines were submerged.

39.   Rail traffic was not expected to resume for days, and possibly weeks, as repairs are made to the heavily used East Coast rail artery, CSX said.

40.   Railroad workers had cleared the track at Sarai Banjara on Monday and rail traffic had resumed on a single track.