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Opinion: Relocating CP Rail around Calgary easier said than done
(Source: Calgary Sun opinion column by Ricky Leong, December 21, 2015) CALGARY — Calgary’s history is undeniably linked with that of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Were it not for the surveyors who traced the route of this country’s first transcontinental rail link, a...
Newspaper report: Track defects cause about one-third of oil train accidents
(Source: Columbus Dispatch, December 20, 2015) MOUNT CARBON, W.Va. — Track defects caused fiery crude-oil derailments that forced 1,100 people from their homes in this Appalachian village this year and killed 47 people in a Canadian town in 2013. Full story: Columbus...
Suits filed on behalf of 6 more passengers in Amtrak train 188 crash
(Source: Associated Press, December 21, 2015) PHILADELPHIA — A law firm says it will be seeking punitive damages in lawsuits filed on behalf of six more passengers in the deadly May derailment of an Amtrak train in Philadelphia. Full story: The Republic
No injuries reported as UP train collides with semi in Nebraska, derails
(Source: The Sidney Sun-Telegraph, December 21, 2015) SIDNEY, Neb. — A Union Pacific train collided with a semi truck 10 miles west of Sidney early Monday morning. The train’s two crew members and the truck driver and a passenger were not injured. They exited the semi...
MBTA board sets stage for fare hikes
(Source: Associated Press, December 22, 2015) BOSTON — Boston-area residents could soon be paying more to take the T. The MBTA's fiscal control board on Monday approved a policy that allows fare hikes of up to 10 percent every two years, and officials say fares could...
Teamsters’ Ken Hall: West Virginians are better off without ‘right to work’
(Source: Opinion column by Teamsters General Secretary-Treasurer Ken Hall, December 20, 2015) CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The people of West Virginia are being told by some elected officials and business leaders that so-called right-to-work legislation will boost jobs and pay...
NJ Transit police found nothing to substantiate threat
(Source: The Record, December 19, 2015) BERGEN COUNTY, N.J. — New Jersey Transit police on Saturday evening said they have "found nothing" to substantiate a called-in threat that 20 armed men would come to Newark Penn Station, according to a spokesperson. Full story:...
Is Amtrak vulnerable to a terrorist attack?
(Source: Television station WCVB, December 21, 2015) BOSTON — Recent terror attacks in California and Paris have all of us talking about security in public places, but there is one vulnerable target in Boston and throughout the Northeast that is potentially being...
CP, NS credit ratings could suffer if merger goes through
(Source: Canadian Press, December 21, 2015) OMAHA, Neb. — Rating agency Moody's says Canadian Pacific and Norfolk Southern could face credit downgrades if the two railroads move forward with a proposed merger. Moody's said Monday that it hasn't taking any action on...
Life-saving PTC technology has been turned on for Amtrak trains in the NE; Other places have to wait
(Source: Washington Post, December 21, 2015) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Automatic-braking technology that would have prevented a deadly crash in Philadelphia this year has now been activated from Washington to New York, Amtrak said Monday, a significant milestone that also...
