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Editorial: Infrastructure vulnerability along the Northeast Corridor
(Source: Baltimore Sun, May 12, 2014) BALTIMORE, Md. — Century-old infrastructure can't continue to support key passenger rail service in Baltimore and the rest of the populous Northeast corridor. Full story: Baltimore Sun
Newly approved California high-speed train route has ‘unavoidable’ effects on Valley
(Source: Fresno Bee, May 12, 2014) FRESNO, Calif. — The latest section approved from Fresno to Bakersfield for California's proposed high-speed train project would displace hundreds of homes and businesses and take as much as 5,000 acres of farmland out of production...
Opinion: Lynchburg oil train derailment could have been worse
(Source: News & Advance, May 11, 2014) LYNCHBURG, Va. — The Lynchburg derailment highlights the dangers of transporting Bakken Shale Formation oil by rail in tanker cars that are easily breached and on routes that take the trains through major population areas. Had...
Canadian Pacific fined for failure to promptly report oil train derailment in Albany
(Source: Albany Times Union, May 12, 2014) ALBANY, N.Y. — Canadian Pacific Railway will be fined $5,000 — the maximum under state law — after four tank cars carrying Bakken crude oil from North Dakota derailed at 4:30 a.m. Monday in the railroad's Kenwood Rail Yard...
Editorial: Pass credible safety standards for oil trains
(Source: Seattle Times, May 12, 2014) SEATTLE, Wash. — Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx announced an emergency order requiring railroads to identify routes on which trains hauling more than 1 million gallons of Bakken crude are traveling, and to notify state...
DOT says energy companies not sharing Bakken oil test data
(Source: Wall Street Journal, May 2, 2014) NEW YORK — Most energy companies operating in North Dakota's Bakken Shale haven't provided safety regulators with the requested testing data on crude oil they ship by rail across the country, the U.S. Transportation...
OSHA orders Grand Trunk Western to reinstate conductor, pay more than $244,000 in back wages & damages
(Source: U.S. Department of Labor press release, May 12, 2014) CHICAGO — Grand Trunk Western Railroad Co. has been ordered to reinstate a conductor and pay him more than $244,000 in back wages and damages following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's...
Lac-Megantic disaster leads to charges against MMA Railway, three employees
(Source: Bloomberg News, May 13, 2014) OTTAWA — Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway Ltd. and three of its employees have been charged with criminal negligence in connection with the derailment and explosion of a train in Lac-Megantic last year, Quebec’s prosecutor’s...
Smooth sailing for Eisenhower locomotive en route back to Green Bay
(Source: Green Bay Press Gazette, May 11, 2014) GREEN BAY, Wisc. — Green Bay’s prized historic train engine is on its way back home. After a two-year hiatus at a museum in England, the locomotive named after President Eisenhower is being shipped back to the United...
Chinese Americans pay tribute to laborers at Golden Spike
(Source: Salt Lake Tribune, May 10, 2014) PROMONTORY SUMMIT, Utah — In what an organizer called a "photographic act of justice," some 200 Chinese Americans, Chinese citizens and other Asian American friends posed here Saturday on the 145th anniversary of the...
