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The Texas bullet train that could change everything
(Source: Texas Tribune, August 18, 2014) AUSTIN, Texas — For years, the Japanese company behind the world’s first and busiest high-speed rail system has been itching to enter the U.S. high-speed rail market, hoping to sell one of the world’s ripest passenger rail...
Hoffa: GOP turns back on job creation incentives
(Source: Statement by James P. Hoffa, General President, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, August 20, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Speak with any elected official, and inevitably he or she will stress the need to create more U.S. jobs. But given the opportunity to...
Cargo rates trigger shipper backlash as U.S. rails soar
(Source: Bloomberg, August 21, 2014) NEW YORK — Following a decade of increases that sent rail profits and stocks to records, shippers are asking the U.S. government to help them fight back. They want to be able to compel railroads to hand off cargo to a rival in...
AAR: Combined weekly rail traffic up 4 percent over 2013 for week ending August 16
(Source: Association of American Railroads press release, August 21, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Association of American Railroads (AAR) today reported increased U.S. rail traffic for the week ending August 16, 2014 with 304,276 total carloads, up 2.8 percent...
Cleanup still going on at train crash site in Hoxie, Ark.
(Source: Associated Press, August 21, 2014) HOXIE, Ark. — An important highway in northeast Arkansas could stay closed into next week as crews clean up the wreckage left from a head-on train collision, a highway official said Wednesday. Two railroad workers were...
Opinion: Lac-Megantic report skims surface of deep problems
(Source: Toronto Star opinion column by Greg Gormick, August 21, 2014) TORONTO — The report of the Transportation Safety Board of Canada on the Lac-Mégantic disaster blames “systemic problems” for the fourth deadliest accident in nearly two centuries of Canadian...
Engineer Tom Harding’s Lac-Megantic emergency calls released
(Source: CBC News, August 21, 2014) OTTAWA — CBC Radio-Canada has obtained audio recordings of communications that took place on the night of the Lac-Mégantic train disaster, which killed 47 people and destroyed the downtown core of the small Quebec town last year. A...
Canada’s TSB identifies 18 factors leading to Lac-Megantic train accident and calls for additional safety defenses to improve rail safety
(Source: Transportation Safety Board press release, August 19, 2014) LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec — The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) investigation into the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway (MMA) train derailment in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec (investigation report...
Amtrak offers train service to New York State Fair
(Source: Associated Press, August 21, 2014) SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Amtrak is once again this year offering train service to the New York State Fair. Full story: The Republic
Indianapolis to fund Hoosier State Amtrak line through January
(Source: Fox 59, August 20, 2014) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — Indianapolis and several other communities will continue to fund the Amtrak Hoosier State Line through January. Full story: www.fox59.com
