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Berkshire Hathaway profit falls as underwriting loss offsets BNSF gains in 2Q 2017
(Source: Reuters, August 4, 2017) NEW YORK — Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc on Friday reported a 15 percent drop in second-quarter profit, as lower investment gains and a loss from insurance underwriting offset improvement in its BNSF railroad business. BNSF...
UP urges safety for August 21 solar eclipse viewers near railroad tracks
(Source: Union Pacific press release, August 3, 2017) OMAHA, Neb. — Union Pacific counts many miles of freight rail lines within the eclipse’s viewing path. Hauling the freight American families and businesses use daily is a 24/7 job, so Union Pacific does not plan to...
Union Pacific tops Soy Transportation Coalition’s railroad report card
(Source: Brownfield Ad News, August 3, 2017) JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Union Pacific is the top performing railroad in the seventh annual Soy Transportation Coalition (STC) Railroad Report Card, a survey of agricultural shippers across the U.S. Full story: Brownfield Ag...
BMW, Norfolk Southern take the inland road to efficiency
(Source: Logistics Management, August 3, 2017) FRAMINGHAM, Mass. — BMW’s collaboration with South Carolina Ports and Norfolk Southern creates a unique intermodal solution that eliminates truck moves, improves its sustainability efforts and subsequently spurs...
What’s delaying Quad Cities-Chicago passenger rail?
(Source: Television station WQAD, August 3, 2017) MOLINE, Ill. — Work is winding down on a new multi-modal station and hotel in downtown Moline which is supposed to coincide with the long-awaited return of passenger rail service between the Quad Cities and Chicago via...
Displaced Hyndman residents flock to hotels
(Source: Cumberland Times-News, August 3, 2017) LAVALE, Md. — Donna Jenkins has lived in Hyndman, Pennsylvania, for 47 years. "Never a derailment in all those years until now,” Jenkins, one of dozens of evacuees staying at LaVale’s Holiday Inn Express, said Thursday,...
Canada’s TSB blames botched rail repair for Gogama oil train crash
(Source: Globe and Mail, August 3, 2017) TORONTO — A 2015 oil train crash and explosion in Northern Ontario was caused by an improperly repaired rail that failed, the Transportation Safety Board said on Thursday. The chair of the rail safety investigator called on...
Supreme Court asked to hear railroad employee whistleblower case
(Source: Garella Law Firm press release, August 3, 2017) CHARLOTTE, N.C. — In a petition for writ of certiorari filed yesterday, the Supreme Court of the United States was asked to hear the case of Edward Blackorby v. BNSF Railway Company (BNSF), an important case...
EEOC accuses CSX of sex bias in physical tests for jobs
(Source: Reuters, August 3, 2017) NEW YORK — The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has sued CSX Transportation Inc. for sex discrimination, accusing the railroad operator of requiring job applicants to pass physical tests that have an unlawful disparate impact...
NY county executive implores Trump to fill DOT vacancies for train safety reasons
(Source: Albany Times Union, August 3, 2017) ALBANY, N.Y. — Albany County executive Daniel McCoy implored President Donald Trump to fill Department of Transportation vacancies for safety's sake a day after an Albany-bound train carrying hazardous cargo derailed,...
