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PATH sees boost in ridership during NY Penn Station repairs
(Source: New Jersey News 12, July 25, 2017) HOBOKEN, N.J. — Thousands of additional New Jersey commuters are taking PATH trains into New York City while Amtrak completes repairs at New York Penn Station, Port Authority officials said. Full story:...
Wick Moorman: How Penn Station got to the “summer of hell”
(Source: Newsday opinion column by Amtrak CEO Wick Moorman, July 9, 2017) NEW YORK — Decades of insufficient funding by federal and state governments and too few resources dedicated to critical infrastructure in this country make this summer’s work at Penn a necessary...
STB: Class I employment slide continued in June, but T&E workforce increased
(Source: Progressive Railroading, July 24, 2017) Class Is employed 148,627 workers in the United States as of mid-June, down 0.27 percent since mid-May's employment figure and down 2.49 percent compared with mid-June 2016's level, according to Surface Transportation...
Safety probed after rail car workers pass out
(Source: Altoona Mirror, July 21, 2017) ALTOONA, Pa. — Federal safety officials are investigating after three workers were left unconscious Thursday morning at GBW Railcar Services outside Hollidaysburg. Full story: Altoona Mirror
TCRC-MWED ratifies pact with CP
(Source: Railway Age, July 21, 2017) NEW YORK — Canadian Pacific and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference Maintenance of Way Employees Division (TCRC-MWED) announced they have ratified a new five-year labor agreement. Full story: Railway Age
CSX plans to appeal $3.9 million jury decision in Midnight Rider case
(Source: Associated Press, July 18, 2017) SAVANNAH, Ga. — A railroad owner plans to appeal a jury's decision that it must pay $3.9 million to the family of a movie worker killed on a Georgia railroad trestle in 2014, a spokesman for the company said. Full story: Post...
Trump administration’s NAFTA demands make sense, UP CEO says
(Source: Reuters, July 20, 2017) DETROIT — The list of priorities U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer released this week for the renegotiation of NAFTA with Mexico and Canada is reasonable and in line with what the Trump administration has promised to focus...
CSX CEO says ‘fossil fuels are dead’
(Source: Huffington Post, July 19, 2017) NEW YORK — The CEO of freight railroad CSX Corp., one of the largest U.S. haulers of coal, warns that the days of transporting and burning coal are numbered. “Fossil fuels are dead,” Hunter Harrison told analysts Wednesday,...
Norfolk Southern to consolidate operating divisions
(Source: Norfolk Southern press release, July 18, 2017) NORFOLK, Va. — As part of ongoing efforts to enhance customer service and improve operating efficiencies, Norfolk Southern (NYSE: NSC) plans to consolidate its Central Division headquarters operations in...
CP aims to avoid labor friction with offer to TCRC conductors
(Source: BNN, July 21, 2017) MONTREAL — CP Rail is taking steps to avoid seeing its conductors walk off the job later this year. The company offered a one-year contract extension to the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference Train and Engine union ahead of negotiations that...
