1.   A national rail strike in Canada started to affect auto makers and other industries dependent on rail shipments.

2.   Fernald already has begun rail shipments of radioactive dirt to a Utah landfill.

3.   In their third-quarter financial results Wednesday, CSX and Conrail attributed their higher earnings to increased rail shipments.

4.   Its rail division posted lower-than-expected earnings because severe winter weather disrupted rail shipments.

5.   The sale could cause antitrust problems because the combined railroad would dominate the oil-industry rail shipments from the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coasts.

6.   The search for a route independent of Russia recently included rail shipments over the Caucasus Mountains from Azerbaijan to Georgia on the Black Sea.

7.   But delegates later backed a motion disapproving blockades of the rail shipments, one method used by protesters in the past.

8.   It receives rail shipments from within France as well as Germany, Switzerland and Belgium.

9.   Most of the U.S. forces are to move over land, primarily by train, from their bases in Germany, and rail shipments continued to build momentum.

10.   No deaths or injuries have resulted from rail shipment of nuclear waste using special reinforced casks, the Energy Department said in September.