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UP, Port of Brownsville culminate switchyard relocation project
(Source: Port of Brownsville press release, January 30, 2018) BROWNSVILLE, Texas — On December 28, 2017, Brownsville Navigation District Chairman John Wood signed final paperwork with Union Pacific Railroad to officially culminate a 44-year project to improve the...
Teamsters: $40,000 in back pay recovered
(Source: International Brotherhood of Teamsters press release, January 30, 2018) WASHINGTON, D.C. — For over two years, the Denver Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) underpaid employees by requiring them to clock in five minutes before their scheduled start time...
UP begins work on $550 million Brazos Yard, its largest capital investment ever
(Source: Omaha World-Herald, January 30, 2018) OMAHA, Neb. — Union Pacific, whose deferred tax liabilities fell about $5 billion from the federal tax cut, has started construction on a $550 million rail yard in Texas that is the largest capital investment since its...
Amtrak worker fired for 2016 Chester derailment sues
(Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, January 30, 2018) PHILADELPHIA — An Amtrak worker held responsible by federal investigators for a 2016 train derailment in Chester has filed a lawsuit against the railroad agency and his former union, alleging civil rights abuses. Full...
A battle to hold on to pensions and the dreams they carried
(Source: Boston Globe, January 26, 2018) BOSTON — They thought they were the lucky ones — truck drivers and warehouse workers who counted themselves among the dwindling number of Americans still guaranteed a private pension. But that promise of a monthly check, once...
NJ Transit PTC technology hits snag
(Source: Bloomberg, January 30, 2018) NEW YORK — New Jersey Transit has stopped installing federally mandated safety technology on trains as software problems have sidelined 8 percent of locomotives undergoing tests. Full story: Bloomberg
Opinion: Safety, translated from planes to trains?
(Source: Railway Age opinion column by Art Miller, January 30, 2018) NEW YORK — Amtrak is “adopting a safety management system approach used by commercial aviation” as it responds to the Dec. 18, 2017 derailment of Amtrak Cascades train 501 that killed three people...
A new leader for NJ Transit
(Source: New York Times, January 30, 2018) NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Kevin Corbett is about to step into what may be the hardest job in New Jersey. Full story: New York Times
Texas Central picks downtown Dallas station site for its $15 billion high-speed rail proposal
(Source: Dallas Morning News, January 29, 2018) DALLAS — Texas Central Partners announced Monday that a 60-acre tract southeast of the Interstate 30-35E interchange will be the site of the Dallas passenger station for the company's planned $15 billion high-speed rail...
Can Gov. Murphy use these suggestions to turn NJ Transit around?
(Source: www.nj.com, January 29, 2018) NEWARK, N.J. — Recommendations that could become part of Gov. Phil Murphy’s blueprint to save NJ Transit, which he called a national disgrace last month, were revealed Friday in a report from his transition committee that looked...
