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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...
Stowaways are stranded in Mexico by train ban
(Source: New York Times, May 10, 2014) MEXICO CITY — Hundreds of Central American migrants trying to make their way to the United States have been stranded in Mexico in recent weeks after the freight-train line they ride — labeled the Beast — began enforcing a ban on...
Proposed border rail project gets mixed reviews
(Source: Texas Tribune, May 9, 2014) EL PASO, Texas — When César Duarte, the governor of the Mexican state of Chihuahua, announced last week that the government wanted to move the railroad tracks that pass through Ciudad Juárez out of the heart of the city, Cristina...
Metro-North new schedules debut with speedier rides to NYC
(Source: The Journal News, May 12, 2014) NEW YORK — Commuters are trying out Metro-North's new schedules Monday morning, testing out railroad President Joseph Giulietti's plan to get them to Manhattan, or wherever they're going, when the timetable says they'll arrive....
Via Rail names new president
(Source: CBC News, May 11, 2014) OTTAWA — Via Rail has new leadership after Transport Minister Lisa Raitt appointed Yves Desjardins-Siciliano as the company’s new president and CEO on Sunday. The Montreal native, who was the rail company’s chief corporate and legal...
