ECONOMY TAKING HIT IN RAIL SNARL; UNION PACIFIC TIE-UP SLOWS DOWN DELIVERIES.Byline: Vincent Del Giudice and Jennifer Thomas Jennifer Thomas is a professional wrestler and valet. She currently works in WWE's developmental territory Ohio Valley Wrestling. Career She got her start in wrestling as Kharma in UPW. She would also wrestle in other federations on the west coast like IPW. Bloomberg News The nightmare traffic jam on Jam On is a Jam Bands radio station on Sirius Satellite Radio channel 17 and Dish Network channel 6017. It has featured basketball great Bill Walton hosting a Grateful Dead show, Woodstock MC Wavy Gravy, and pedal steel genius Buddy Cage as a DJ. the nation's largest railroad, the Union Pacific, is taking a toll on the U.S. economy by delaying coal deliveries, causing bottlenecks in the food supply and hindering factory shipments. As a result, prices could rise even as overall U.S. growth cools with the weather. ``Our coal stocks are certainly below where we thought they'd be,'' said Mark Werner, superintendent of fuels at City Public Service of San Antonio, Texas “San Antonio” redirects here. For other uses, see San Antonio (disambiguation). San Antonio is the second most populous city in Texas, the third most populous metropolitan area in Texas, and is the seventh most populous city in the United States. As of the 2006 U.S. . ``We're pulling in our horns and getting ready for winter by making arrangements for fuel oil and alternate sources of coal.'' An expected record grain harvest is likely to compound the rail backup. And General Motors Corp. Chairman John Smith Jr. recently warned that sales and production at the world's biggest auto manufacturer could be hurt by the railroad crisis. The problems at Dallas-based Union Pacific Corp., which intensified in the spring after it completed the acquisition of the ailing Southern Pacific Rail Corp., persist in Verb 1. persist in - do something repeatedly and showing no intention to stop; "We continued our research into the cause of the illness"; "The landlord persists in asking us to move" continue slowing freight. The railroad reported that it held up 348 trains in the week ended Oct. 24 because of a shortage of locomotives, crews or space on the tracks. Average train speeds have slowed as a result - to 13.3 miles per hour that week from 17.9 mph in January. Coal-starved utilities are seeing higher operating costs operating costs npl → gastos mpl operacionales . Use of natural gas instead of coal has added $100,000 to $150,000 a day to generating costs since September, said Andy Ramirez, vice president for power production at the municipally owned Austin Electric Utility in Austin, Texas. Prices of consumer goods consumer goods Any tangible commodity purchased by households to satisfy their wants and needs. Consumer goods may be durable or nondurable. Durable goods (e.g., autos, furniture, and appliances) have a significant life span, often defined as three years or more, and delivered by rail also could rise if the congestion The condition of a network when there is not enough bandwidth to support the current traffic load. congestion - When the offered load of a data communication path exceeds the capacity. causes supplies to dwindle dwin·dle v. dwin·dled, dwin·dling, dwin·dles v.intr. To become gradually less until little remains. v.tr. To cause to dwindle. See Synonyms at decrease. . ``The problem retailers face is having to pay more to obtain the goods they need on time for the holiday season'' and that could mean higher prices for finished goods, said Barnett Banks chief economist Lynn Reaser in Jacksonville, Fla. Freight logjams, like the Union Pacific's, are symptomatic of an economy that's been growing at an unsustainable pace since the fourth quarter of last year, Federal Reserve Gov. Susan Phillips told reporters Tuesday in Chicago. Several events are at the root of the railroad traffic snarl. Union Pacific's takeover of Southern Pacific led to a shortages of engines and rail cars. Construction delays in Houston have slowed trains throughout the 36,000-mile system. And a surge in freight shipments, reflecting the robust economy, added to the backup. |
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