...Legislature will require diesel fuel to be blended with soybean oil starting next year. But neither have truckers and railroad executives given up on the idea that they can stop the plan. Biodiesel has been one of the biggest agricultural issues of...

...Wing and created a town called simply The Crossing. It would later be rechristened to carry the maiden name of railroad executive John Gregory Smith's wife, Brainerd. A governmental act designed to support colleges from land sale money made...

...intended to use his Web site, BNSF.org and BNSF.net, to publish the salaries and Social Security numbers of top railroad executives. The railroad said that would be an invasion of the executives' privacy, but an appeals court has ruled that...

...struggling industry starving for revenue and capital to maintain its costly infrastructure of tracks and trains. Even railroad executives, while maintaining that tracks, signals and locomotives are in excellent condition, acknowledge that competitive...

...railroad mogul dies mysteriously in a seedy brothel; and William, hoping he's on the right track, investigates a railroad executive suspected of fraud. Trouble blooms in "Blood Orchid" (Putnam), No. 3 in Woods' series about Chief of Police...

...him in death. He received a degree in business administration from the University of Minnesota. He was a retired railroad executive with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and a member of various civic and business organizations in Minneapolis, Minn...