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Minnesota Senators push STB to stop rail delays
(Source: Finance and Commerce, May 14, 2014) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Minnesota Sens. Al Franken and Amy Klobuchar are urging the Surface Transportation Board to use its authority to stop long rail delays in the upper Midwest. Full story: Finance and Commerce
More oil by rail heading to Philadelphia-area refineries
(Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, May 14, 2014) PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — At the Delaware River wharf where Appalachian coal trains once unloaded their cargo, 108 rail tankers lined up Tuesday to deliver a new distant energy source - crude oil from North Dakota. Full story:...
Taming the PTC elephant
(Source: Railway Age, May 14, 2014) NEW YORK — The pressing issue for the railroad industry’s communications and signal engineers is whether or not Positive Train Control (PTC) is going to be complete and fully functional by the fast-approaching Dec. 31, 2015,...
U.S. stops monitoring ‘toxic inhalant hazard’ railroad risks
(Source: Column by James P. RePass Sr., Nationalcorridors.org, May 14, 2014) BOSTON, Mass. — The Transportation Security Administration, in charge of monitoring crude oil tank cars, has let a critical rail security system, put in place after 9/11 to monitor toxic...
MMA engineer arrested at gunpoint
(Source: CBC News, May 13, 2014) MONTREAL — The Crown announced late Monday that the Montreal Maine and Atlantic Railway (MM&A) and three of its former employees — Jean Demaitre (manager of train operations), Richard Labrie (railway traffic controller) and engineer...
50 coal cars derail on BNSF line near Pillager, Minn.
(Source: Forum News Service, May 12, 2014) PILLAGER, Minn. — Coal and crushed metal littered the train tracks early Monday as crews worked to clear the scene of a train derailment on a BNSF Railway line near Pillager. Full story: West Central Tribune
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...
