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Train crew transport company cutting jobs in New York
(Source: Albany Business Review, February 9, 2016) ALBANY, N.Y. — Professional Transportation Inc. is closing its facility outside of Albany, New York, and cutting 54 jobs. The Indiana-based company, which provides crew transportation for railroads, filed a notice...
Ridership on Metro-North breaks record in 2015
(Source: Daily Voice, February 7, 2016) NEW YORK — New York transit officials say ridership increased on the nation’s two largest commuter railroad systems last year, according to a story on lohud.com. There were a record number of riders on the Metro-North Rail Road...
Teamsters: Flint crisis shows need to invest in water infrastructure
(Source: International Brotherhood of Teamsters press release, February 8, 2016) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Concerns about Flint, Mich.’s water crisis are growing, and rightfully so. The state government’s inaction to find real solutions to the problem has been outrageous....
Shifting energy markets end crude by rail’s reign
(Source: Energywire, February 8, 2016) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Crude by rail is no longer king in the Bakken Shale play. For nearly four years, oil shippers favored train tracks over pipelines when shipping light, sweet Bakken Shale crude from North Dakota to coastal...
Opinion: Is Canadian Pacific Railway devolving into a giant shell game?
(Source: Seeking Alpha opinion column by Cameron Conway, February 9, 2016) NEW YORK — I wrote previously about how eventually CP Rail would run out of internal cuts to fuel its rising net income and would have to rely on gimmicks and PR misdirection to keep itself in...
Lawyers question NTSB interview process with Amtrak 188 engineer
(Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, February 9, 2016) PHILADELPHIA — Call it a clash of cultures. The investigation into the horrific crash of Amtrak Train 188 on May 12, 2015, is proceeding along two paths, and the two couldn't be more different. Full story: Philadelphia...
Nine dead, 150 injured after trains collide head-on in Germany
(Source: CNN, February 9, 2016) MUNICH, Germany — Nine people are dead, two are assumed missing and 50 seriously injured after a head-on collision between two trains in Germany's southern state of Bavaria, police said Tuesday. Altogether, 100 to 150 people suffered...
B&P tunnel relocation project meets strong opposition from Baltimore residents
(Source: Baltimore Sun, February 6, 2016) BALTIMORE, Md. — More than 60 residents of West Baltimore turned out Saturday to urge transportation officials to scrap a plan that would re-route a train tunnel beneath their homes, businesses and neighborhood centers Full...
Pullman Porter Museum launches online registry of black railroad laborers
(Source: Chicago Tribune, February 7, 2016) CHICAGO — Theodore Berrien worked as a Pullman porter from about 1940 to 1969, during which time he was chosen to accompany President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's funeral train on its route between Georgia and Washington, D.C...
Contra Costa County workers join Teamsters Local 856
(Source: International Brotherhood of Teamsters press release, February 5, 2016) SAN BRUNO, Calif. — More than 1,500 Contra Costa County, Calif., workers joined Teamsters Local 856 in a landslide vote on Thursday. Eighty-five percent of workers in the health services,...
