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FRA: Metro-North put punctuality ahead of safety
(Source: The Hill, March 12, 2015) WASHINGTON, D.C. — An “overemphasis of on-time performance” contributed to a series of accidents on New York’s Metro-North commuter railway that has raised questions about public transportation safety, the Federal Railroad...
AAR: Total weekly rail traffic up slightly over 2014 for week ending March 7
(Source: Association of American Railroads press release, March 11, 2015) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Association of American Railroads (AAR) today reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending Mar. 7, 2015. For this week, total U.S. weekly rail traffic was 522,383...
Senator Coats asks FRA to reconsider rail carrier status for states
(Source: Indianapolis Star, March 12, 2015) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — The Indiana Department of Transportation announced last week that the Indianapolis-to-Chicago four-days-a-week train will stop running April 1. The agency says the federal rail agency’s insistence that...
Shippers say railroads should hand over more info
(Source: Electric Co-op Today, March 10, 2015) ARLINGTON, Va. — Electric cooperatives say they can get a better grip on potential rail delivery problems if federal regulators require freight railroads to hand over more data. Full story: Electric Co-op Today
USDA pegs rail losses at $570 million
(Source: Agriculture.com, March 12, 2015) Upper Midwest farmers lost about $570 million on sales of soybeans, wheat, and corn last year because of painful rail delays that began with the bumper 2013 harvest and persisted into fall 2014. The snarl-up could lead to...
Canada tracking grain transportation after rail backlogs
(Source: Canadian Press, March 13, 2015) SASKATOON — Prime Minister Stephen Harper says it’s not in Canada’s economic interest to have two railway companies with “extraordinary market power” dictating terms of the transportation industry. The Prairies experienced...
Crude oil train wrecks raise questions about safety claims
(Source: Los Angeles Times, March 13, 2015) LOS ANGELES — Four accidents in the last month involving trains hauling crude oil across North America have sent flames shooting hundreds of feet into the sky, leaving some experts worried that public safety risks have been...
CP Rail has been found guilty of multiple violations of Canadian Labor Code
(Source: Teamsters Canada Rail Conference press release, March 5, 2015) OTTAWA — On February 20, 2015 CP arbitrarily changed the working conditions and imposed their new ideas on how to allow elected Union officers leave to conduct their duties. The TCRC immediately...
Rig involved in Amtrak derailment was hauling load from N.C. to N.J.
(Source: News & Observer, March 13, 2015) RALEIGH, N.C. — The tractor-trailer rig that caused a train crash Monday in Halifax County was hauling a shipment from Clayton. The rig was carrying a power equipment center built by PCX Corp. at its plant on Pony Farm Road....
TCRC: Could the Gogama derailment have been prevented?
(Source: Teamsters Canada Rail Conference press release, March 12, 2015) OTTAWA — The Teamsters Union once again raises concerns following the third train derailment in Northern Ontario in less than a month. For years, the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) —...
