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High-speed rail gaining momentum in Texas
(Source: Fort Worth Star-Telegram, August 27, 2014) FORT WORTH, Texas — The number of Texas cities that could be served by high-speed rail is growing quickly and now includes Bryan-College Station, an area best known as the home of Texas A&M University that was...
Transport Canada reduces speed limit for CN oil tankers in Sorel area
(Source: Montreal Gazette, August 25, 2014) MONTREAL — Transport Canada has ordered a reduction in the speed limit for Canadian National trains carrying crude oil through a South Shore municipality after tracks in the area were found to be in extremely poor condition....
Top BNSF rail executive says safer tanker car can greatly lower risk of oil by rail disasters
(Source: The Olympian, August 27, 2014) OLYMPIA, Wash. — Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway’s executive chairman Matthew Rose says his company wants safer ways to haul volatile oil by rail from the Bakken fields of North Dakota to refineries and terminals in...
Minnesota Governor Dayton wants more answers from railroads on agriculture shipping problems
(Source: Star Tribune, August 27, 2014) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — A study that shows Minnesota grain farmers lost $109 million in revenue from March through May proves that the state’s major rail carriers are not sufficiently addressing agricultural shipping problems, Gov....
DEA payments to Amtrak employee being investigated
(Source: Associated Press, August 26, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Hundreds of thousands of dollars in alleged payments by Drug Enforcement Administration personnel to an Amtrak employee are being investigated by the Justice Department inspector general's office. Full...
China touts itself as winner in high-speed rail stakes
(Source: New York Times, August 25, 2014) NEW YORK — High-speed rail has brought many benefits to China, and now one more can be added to that list: a handy point to lord over the United States. Last week, People’s Daily, the newspaper of the ruling Communist Party,...
Work begins on Miami to Orlando fast train
(Source: Miami Herald, August 25, 2014) MIAMI, Fla. — Preliminary work has begun for construction of a $2.5 billion express passenger train between Miami and Orlando. Full story: Miami Herald
Canadian National to end service to Auburn, Maine
(Source: Portland Press Herald, August 26, 2014) AUBURN, Maine — Canada’s largest freight railroad is ending service to Maine’s truck-and-rail hub in Auburn, citing insufficient freight volume for a move that jeopardizes the future of the only such transportation...
Union Pacific may benefit from Mexico energy reform
(Source: Trefis Team, August 26, 2014) NEW YORK — We believe that Union Pacific, with its significant market share and access to cross-border rail freight traffic with Mexico, stands to benefit from the liberalization of the Mexican energy sector. Full story:...
NTSB report finds little chemical contamination from Rosedale derailment
(Source: Baltimore Sun, August 26, 2014) BALTIMORE, Md. — The only signs investigators found of the chemical-laden railroad hopper car that exploded after it derailed last year in Rosedale were twisted and deformed pieces of its aluminum shell that shot out like...
