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Lac-Megantic restaurant/bar quietly reopens near original site
(Source: Canadian Press, December 15, 2014) MONTREAL — The restaurant-bar at ground zero of the deadly train derailment and explosion that killed 47 people in Quebec in July, 2013 is back in business. The Musi-Café quietly opened its doors to the public in...
Editorial: Amtrak’s move in Fort Worth an expensive one, but worth the cost
(Source: Fort Worth Star-Telegram editorial, December 15, 2014) FORT WORTH, Texas — Moving Amtrak trains to the Trinity Railway Express tracks between Dallas and Fort Worth will cost the Fort Worth Transportation Authority $1.07 million per year. In the end, it’s...
Editorial: Amtrak’s move in Fort Worth an expensive one, but worth the cost
(Source: Fort Worth Star-Telegram editorial, December 15, 2014) FORT WORTH, Texas — Moving Amtrak trains to the Trinity Railway Express tracks between Dallas and Fort Worth will cost the Fort Worth Transportation Authority $1.07 million per year. In the end, it’s...
Carnegie Mellon University, Fractracker teaming up to monitor crude oil trains
(Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 13, 2014) PITTSBURGH, Pa. — Trains carrying millions of gallons of crude oil from Midwestern shale oil fields pass through the region daily and at speeds approaching the limit established to reduce derailment risks, according...
Carnegie Mellon University, Fractracker teaming up to monitor crude oil trains
(Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 13, 2014) PITTSBURGH, Pa. — Trains carrying millions of gallons of crude oil from Midwestern shale oil fields pass through the region daily and at speeds approaching the limit established to reduce derailment risks, according...
STB: Federal law on high-speed rail trumps state environmental lawsuits
(Source: Fresno Bee, December 15, 2014) FRESNO, Calif. — The U.S. Surface Transportation Board, in a ruling issued late Friday, declared on a 2-1 vote that the California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA, “is categorically pre-empted” in connection with the...
STB: Federal law on high-speed rail trumps state environmental lawsuits
(Source: Fresno Bee, December 15, 2014) FRESNO, Calif. — The U.S. Surface Transportation Board, in a ruling issued late Friday, declared on a 2-1 vote that the California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA, “is categorically pre-empted” in connection with the...
Omnibus bill trims TIGER grants, maintains Amtrak funding
(Source: Progressive Railroading, December 16, 2014) The $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill passed by Congress last weekend includes $500 million for the U.S. Department of Transportation's (USDOT) Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER)...
Omnibus bill trims TIGER grants, maintains Amtrak funding
(Source: Progressive Railroading, December 16, 2014) The $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill passed by Congress last weekend includes $500 million for the U.S. Department of Transportation's (USDOT) Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER)...
Metro-North gets record fine from OSHA in retaliation case
(Source: Associated Press, December 16, 2014) HARTFORD, Conn. — The U.S. Labor Department has ordered the Metro-North Railroad to pay a record fine for taking disciplinary action against an employee who reported getting injured on the job. The department said Tuesday...
