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LIRR train derails at Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn; Injuries reported
(Source: NBC New York, January 4, 2016) NEW YORK — A Long Island Rail Road train derailed at Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn at the height of Wednesday's morning rush, injuring more than 100 people and riddling the track area with shattered glass and debris. Full story...
O’Reilly Auto Parts faces possible work stoppage, service delays
(Source: International Brotherhood of Teamsters press release, December 30, 2016) BLAINE, Minn. — Teamsters who deliver O’Reilly Auto Parts to the company’s retail outlets across Minnesota, voted unanimously to walk off the job if the company does not abandon contract...
Northwest Missouri grain handling complex to open in summer
(Source: Associated Press, January 1, 2017) HAMILTON, Mo. — MFA Inc. officials say a $27 million grain-handling facility in northwest Missouri should be ready to open by the summer. The complex will have capacity for 110 railroad cars and is located near Union Pacific...
NS derailment in Illinois spills small amount of sulfuric acid
(Source: Associated Press, December 30, 2016) ROXANA, Ill. — A chemical train has derailed in southern Illinois, releasing a small amount of sulfuric acid. Seven of the Norfolk Southern train cars came off the track Thursday morning, Dec. 29, in Roxana, the Alton...
UP locomotive leaked 2,500 gallons of diesel fuel in Roseville yard
(Source: Sacramento Bee, December 30, 2016) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — It is estimated that 2,300 to 2,500 gallons of diesel fuel was released from the parked locomotive in the Union Pacific railyard where cleanup efforts have been underway this week along a Roseville...
TEX Rail bringing new opportunities to greater Fort Worth
(Source: U.S. Department of Transportation press release, December 28, 2016) WASHINGTON, D.C. — As more and more Americans flock to our nation’s 11 urban “megaregions,” it’s more important than ever for communities to take a regional approach to Americans’ mobility...
Next step for CSX in Rocky Mount? Land acquisition, and it’s already starting
(Source: Triangle Business Journal, December 29, 2016) RALEIGH, N.C. — Norris Tolson, CEO of the Carolinas Gateway Partnership, says the land acquisition process is well underway when it comes to plans to bring a massive, $272 million intermodal terminal to eastern...
Republicans embrace Amtrak’s Gulf Coast rebirth
(Source: Politico, January 1, 2017) MOBILE, Ala. — A decade after Hurricane Katrina wiped out a long stretch of Amtrak's transcontinental passenger route in the Deep South, the railroad is plotting to bring it back. And it’s attracted a seemingly unlikely group of...
Planning could lead to new international rail crossing
(Source: Associated Press, December 29, 2016) LAS CRUCES, N.M. — A large-scale study in the works could lead to the eventual relocation of railroad tracks in southern Dona Ana County and the establishment of a new international rail crossing west of the Santa Teresa...
Editorial: Realism rides the rails
(Source: Editorial in the Boston Herald, January 2, 2017) BOSTON — Many people in the Northeast are hoping that the $1 trillion program of infrastructure investment contemplated by the incoming Trump administration — and many members of both parties in Congress — will...
