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Landslide continues to disrupt Amtrak service between Seattle, Portland
(Source: KPTV, November 16, 2015) PORTLAND, Ore. — A landslide over the weekend closed a section of railroad track that carries Amtrak trains between Seattle and Portland. Full story: KPTV
California high-speed rail board meets Tuesday in Fresno
(Source: Fresno Bee, November 16, 2015) FRESNO, Calif. — Plans for a Y-shaped junction for bullet-train tracks near Chowchilla and for an alternative route and tracks in Bakersfield will be up for discussion when the California High-Speed Rail Authority board meets...
Feds looking at six potential Dallas-Houston bullet train routes
(Source: Dallas Morning News, November 12, 2015) DALLAS — The Federal Railroad Administration will consider six potential alignments of a planned bullet train between Dallas and Houston, according to a report released this week. Texas Central Partners, the company...
Metro-North worker settles suit over 2013 crash just before jury would have awarded her $3.4 million
(Source: New York Daily News, November 17, 2015) NEW YORK — An assistant conductor with Metro-North who sued the agency after suffering permanent injuries in a 2013 crash settled for an unknown amount Monday — moments before a jury would have given her $3.4 million in...
Relief for Amtrak train 188 crash victims stuck in Congress
(Source: USA Today, November 13, 2015) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Relief for victims of the catastrophic Amtrak crash that killed eight people and injured scores of others is tied up in Congress as lawmakers wrangle over a provision in the federal highway bill that sets how...
Amtrak train 188 crash survivors cope with physical, mental wreckage
(Source: USA Today, November 13, 2015) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Three-year-old Jacob Waldman still recognizes his mother, Rachel Jacobs, in pictures, but six months after she was killed in the Amtrak crash in Philadelphia in May, the toddler and his father, Todd Waldman,...
Paris terror ‘mastermind’ linked to failed France train attacks
(Source: New York Post, November 17, 2015) NEW YORK — The mastermind behind the Paris terror attacks was identified Monday as an ISIS fighter from Belgium who is also tied to the recent failed attack on a high-speed European train and a plot against a French church....
Transportation agencies across the U.S. step up security in wake of Paris attacks
(Source: Washington Post, November 16, 2015) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Transportation agencies in the Washington region — and across the U.S. — are bolstering security following Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris, and an Islamic State video released Monday that threatens a...
Six accused in Lac-Megantic derailment plead not guilty to federal charges
(Source: Toronto Star, November 12, 2015) LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec — A number of accused have pleaded not guilty to federal charges laid in connection with the 2013 Lac-Megantic train derailment. The accused are all former employees of now-defunct Montreal, Maine and...
No Railroad Retirement benefit increase in 2016; Retiree earnings remain the same
(Source: Railroad Retirement Board press release, October 20, 2015) CHICAGO — Railroad retirement annuities, like social security benefits, will not increase in January 2016 as there was no increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) from the third quarter of last year...
