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Organizers planning train tour to commemorate centennial of WWI
(Source: Omaha World-Herald, June 24, 2015) OMAHA, Neb. — Ross Rowland organized the American Freedom Train that steamed around the country to celebrate the nation’s 1976 Bicentennial. Now the railroad enthusiast from Pottstown, Pennsylvania, is organizing the Yellow...
Union Pacific to announce 2Q 2015 financial information on July 23
(Source: Union Pacific press release, June 25, 2015) OMAHA, Neb. — You are invited to listen to Union Pacific Corporation's second quarter 2015 earnings release presentation that will be broadcast live over the Internet and via teleconference on Thursday, July 23,...
Positive Train Control advances at Metrolink
(Source: Los Angeles Times, June 24, 2015) LOS ANGELES — A sophisticated safety system that could have prevented the deadly Chatsworth train crash in 2008 is now protecting Metrolink passenger trains that travel on all tracks owned by the commuter railroad in Southern...
McDonald’s accused of hanging California produce workers out to dry in Teamster campaign
(Source: Huffington Post, June 23, 2015) WASHINGTON, D.C. — After impounding the ballots for more than a year, federal officials last week tallied the votes in an acrimonious union election at Taylor Farms Pacific, a California vegetable producer that supplies...
Teamsters: The war against bad trade deals continues
(Source: International Brotherhood of Teamsters press release, June 24, 2015) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Senate is on the verge of giving final approval later today to fast track legislation that will allow lousy trade deals like the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership...
CP Rail lashes out over comments about Revelstoke investigation
(Source: CBC News, June 24, 2015) OTTAWA — The head of CP Rail is lashing out at Canadian Transport Minister Lisa Raitt, accusing her of threatening the company even before completing an investigation into an allegation that a train was parked in the mountains above...
Judge deals Amtrak setback over Sandy storm losses
(Source: Reuters, June 24, 2015) NEW YORK — Amtrak suffered a big setback in its attempt to recoup an estimated $1.1 billion of losses from Superstorm Sandy, when a federal judge on Wednesday rejected the railroad's efforts to recover much of that sum from its...
Shortage of railroad boxcars has shippers fuming
(Source: MarketWatch, June 21, 2015) NEW YORK — A shrinking supply of boxcars -- once the ubiquitous symbols of U.S. railroads and a rolling bellwether for the economy -- is causing a freight-hauling crunch for the industries that continue to use them. Full story:...
Study says oil by rail shipments set to boom over next eight years
(Source: CBC News, June 11, 2015) OTTAWA — Shipments of petroleum-related products by rail could nearly triple in Western Canada and double in Eastern Canada over the next eight years. That's the conclusion of the Canadian Energy Research Initiative, which has...
First bullet-train bridge set to rise in Central California
(Source: Los Angeles Times, June 16, 2014) LOS ANGELES — Crews in Central California have started construction on the first visible piece of the state's $68-billion bullet-train system from Los Angeles to San Francisco, officials said on June 15. A viaduct in Madera...
