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Amtrak to offer extra helpings of train service in Northwest for Thanksgiving
(Source: The Olympian, November 6, 2016) OLYMPIA, Wash. — Amtrak Cascades will again provide holiday travelers with more options for getting to destinations in the Northwest this Thanksgiving season. Full story: The Olympian
Philly residents upset at idling CSX locomotives
(Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, November 6, 2016) PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — All. Night. Long. A noisy, smelly CSX freight train that was left idling — unmanned — near the Schuylkill River Trail for 17 hours left some Center City residents upset and complaining Saturday over...
High-voltage power lines interfering with railroad signals in Wisconsin
(Source: River Valley Media, November 4, 2016) LA CROSSE, Wisc. — Owners of the recently completed CapX2020 transmission line are making modifications to a nine-mile stretch in Buffalo County where a combination of high-voltage power lines is interfering with signals...
California responders prepare for oil train wreck in Feather River Canyon
(Source: Sacramento Bee, November 6, 2016) QUINCY, Calif. — State wildlife officials are preparing to respond to what many consider all but inevitable: an oil-train accident in the Feather River Canyon, a 70-mile rail route along a major source of drinking water for...
Texas high-speed rail lawsuit filed
(Source: Click 2 Houston, November 2, 2016) HEMPSTEAD, Texas — The Waller County Sub-Regional Planning Commission filed suit in Travis District Court Wednesday against the Texas Department of Transportation for violation of state law that requires it to coordinate...
Hertz workers to strike at San Francisco airport today
(Source: International Brotherhood of Teamsters press release, November 4, 2016) SAN FRANCISCO — Employees of Hertz Rent A Car at San Francisco International Airport (SFO), who are working to organize their union with Teamsters Local 856, have taken a strike vote and...
County denies UP track expansion near site of Oregon oil train derailment
(Source: Associated Press, November 5, 2016) SEATTLE — An Oregon county has tentatively denied Union Pacific Railroad’s plan to expand tracks along the Columbia River Gorge where an oil train derailed in June. Full story: Herald and News
Railroads provide survival lessons for struggling energy companies
(Source: Houston Chronicle, November 4, 2016) HOUSTON — As some energy companies lose their grip on monopolies and can no longer rely on customers to help finance their survival, one Columbia University researcher says they could learn from the near-disappearance and...
NJ Transit admits safety crisis
(Source: The Record of North Jersey, November 7, 2016) HOBOKEN, N.J. — Contradicting years of statements by NJ Transit, the agency’s executive director has acknowledged that its safety record is significantly worse than other American commuter railroads and that it...
SEPTA, TWU reach deal to end strike
(Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, November 7, 2016) PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — The week-long work stoppage that sidelined subways, trolleys, and buses and threatened to complicate a closely contested presidential election ended in the pre-dawn hours Monday as SEPTA and...
