Opportunity Alert: Hop on the Train

Posted on | August 22, 2008 | No Comments

Remember trains?  I ask because, except for those random times that I’m unlucky enough to be stuck waiting for a train to pass between me and the movie theatre I love to patronize, I never think of trains.

Lately, I can’t get enough of them.  Trains!  Glorious Trains!

If you have money in the stock market, if you’re a manufacturer, a commercial farmer or anyone else in need of transporting goods, you should hop on train.

While every other industry that runs on petro is grinding to a halt, railroad companies are picking up speed.  Turns out, trains can move a ton of freight 431 miles on one gallon of diesel–nearly three times as much as a truck can.  And, they’re able to pass their increased fuel charges on to their customers.

The four railroad companies in the Dow Jones transportation average–Burlington Northern Santa Fe, CSX, Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific–have seen their stock prices soar an average of 34%.  At the close of today’s market, all but one of the large railroad companies (Canadian Pacific) saw stock price increases.

That spells big opportunity!

For those looking for new career opportunity, the railroads are ripe with them.  Click the railroad company names to see job vacancies.

HOP ON HOT RAILROAD JOBS

• Burlington Northern Santa Fe
• CSX Transportation
• Kansas City Southern
• Norfolk Southern
• Union Pacific
• Amtrak
• Iowa Interstate Railroad, Ltd
• Massachusetts Bay Commuter Railroad Company
• Metro-North Railroad
• Northeast Illinois Regional Commuter Railroad Corp. (METRA)
• OmniTRAX
• Southern California Regional Rail Authority/Metrolink
• Transtar Inc.
• Watco Transportation Services, Inc

OTHER RAILROAD JOB SITES:

Railroad Retirement Board

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