The Andersons earns its daily bread on a mix of grains, trains, and corncobs. Founded in 1947, the agricultural firm buys, conditions, and resells corn, soybeans, and wheat through elevators and...more
Anheuser-Busch Companies (A-B) wants to be the life of every party, whether with its beer or its theme parks. One of the world's largest brewers, the company is best known for Budweiser and Bud...more
Balfour Beatty Rail Inc., formerly Marta Track Constructors, is the US unit of the UK's Balfour Beatty Rail Limited (which itself is a subsidiary of UK-based...more
Broe knows how to grow its dough -- just don't expect it to tell you how it's done. The secretive company invests in a variety of industries in the US and Canada, largely funded by profits made in...more
Central Japan Railway sends bullets flying all over Japan. Bullet train operator Central Japan Railway, known as JR Central, provides passenger transportation over a network of about 1,970 km...more
France's state-owned railway company, Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Français (SNCF), is still blazing a trail as the nation's primary provider of local and long-distance passenger and freight...more
City of Tacoma Department of Public Utilities was fated to fulfill the electric and water desires of the City of Destiny's dwellers. The municipal utility's Tacoma...more
Columbia Grain processes, stores, and distributes peas, beans, wheat, barley, oats, oilseeds, and other pulses and grains grown in the western US. Founded in 1978, the company has grain elevators...more
Connecting Singapore and the UK by bus or taxi would pose considerable logistical difficulties, but ComfortDelGro's mix of businesses bridges the gap. The transportation holding company controls...more
CSX banks on the railway as the right way to make money. Its main subsidiary, CSX Transportation (CSXT), operates a major rail system (some 21,000 route miles) in the...more
The famous painting of George Washington crossing the Delaware would have lacked a good deal of its drama if the Delaware River Port Authority of Pennsylvania and New Jersey (DRPA) had been...more
Deseret Generation and Transmission Cooperative supplies wholesale electricity to its members (six retail distribution cooperatives) and other bulk energy customers in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada,...more
One of Europe's largest transportation providers, Deutsche Bahn gets freight and passengers from Punkt A to Punkt B. More than half of the company's sales come from its freight transport and...more
If you want to ride the rails into Tokyo, you could find yourself cruising at 168 mph aboard a bullet train operated by East Japan Railway, known as JR East. The company carries passengers on more...more
Kazakhstan is strategically located between Russia and China, and the Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC) capitalizes on its resource-rich area. ENRC is a metals and mining company that...more
If you want to get around Northern Italy, this is the right train. Ferrovie Nord Milano (FNM) operates more than 300 km of railways connecting Milan with other northern provinces. The company...more
Where do you suppose Florida East Coast Industries (FECI) does business? The company's Florida East Coast Railway hauls crushed stone, motor vehicles, intermodal...more
Formosa Plastics Corp., U.S.A., is the prince of PVC. Part of Taiwan's Formosa Plastics Corporation (one of the world's largest PVC suppliers), the company produces...more
In England, "Go-Ahead, make my day" might simply be a request for a train schedule. The Go-Ahead Group makes lots of people's days by providing them with train and bus transportation. The company is...more
