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Talgo’s $66 million Wisconsin claim over high-speed trains rejected
(Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, May 19, 2014) MADISON, Wisc. — A state board rejected a nearly $66 million claim Monday from the company that manufactured a canceled Madison-to-Milwaukee train line, clearing the way for a lawsuit over a project that dominated the...
Coal is still king in the U.S.
(Source: Bristol Herald Courier, May 19, 2014) KINGSPORT, Tenn. — Sure, natural gas is cheaper, but coal is going to be king in the U.S. for many more years. That was the admittedly “optimistic” view of coal’s future offered Monday by Dan Weekley, vice president of...
Study: Farmers lose $67 million as oil trains plug rails, not winter
(Source: The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead, May 19, 2014) FARGO, N.D. — North Dakota farmers have lost nearly $67 million this year because of rail shipment delays, and stand to lose $100 million more if the situation on the rails continues. A North Dakota State University...
Railroads want to keep oil train routes secret, but federal rules do not require it
(Source: The Oregonian, May 18, 2014) PORTLAND, Ore. — As crude oil shipments have proliferated and raised safety concerns across the country, railroads have refused to acknowledge their routes and frequencies, details that anyone patient enough to stand trackside...
Opinion: Trains and crude oil are too often an accident waiting to happen
(Source: Los Angeles Times, May 19, 2014) LOS ANGELES, Calif. — The fiery derailment in Virginia recently of a train transporting oil was the latest in a series of alarming accidents involving oil transport in North America in the last year. In 2013, more oil spilled...
New CEO of former MMA Railway wants to resume oil train shipments through Lac-Megantic
(Source: Associated Press, May 16, 2014) PORTLAND, Maine — The company buying the assets of a railroad responsible for a fiery oil train derailment that claimed 47 lives in Quebec plans to resume oil shipments once track safety improvements are made, its top executive...
NTSB asks Metro-North to scrutinize track conditions further
(Source: Danbury News Times, May 19, 2014) DANBURY, Conn. — A Metro-North visual inspection failed to spot a badly joined rail two days before a derailment in Bridgeport last year because inspectors were on a different track and not close enough to spot the defect,...
NTSB recommends revising track safety standards for commuter railroads
(Source: National Transportation Safety Board press release, May 15, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Transportation Safety Board today issued recommendations to the Federal Railroad Administration and Metro-North Railroad. The recommendation to FRA is to remove...
FCC-railroad deal addresses tribal preservation concerns
(Source: Bloomberg, May 19, 2014) NEW YORK — The railroad industry took a step toward resolving a dispute with American Indian tribes that has stalled Positive Train Control, the biggest rail-safety project in U.S. history. The $13.2 billion build-out of networks of...
SEPTA engineers plan strike vote
(Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, May 17, 2014) PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Engineers who operate SEPTA Regional Rail trains will vote soon on authorizing a strike, the national office of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen said Friday. Full story: Philadelphia...
