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Opinion: High-speed rail option good for Dallas, Fort Worth and Houston
(Source: Dallas Morning News jointly authored by the mayors of the three cities listed above, March 31, 2014) DALLAS, Texas -- We are proud to be mayors of three of the largest and fastest-growing cities in America. Dallas, Fort Worth and Houston have weathered the...
The new billionaire political bosses
(Source: Huffington Post, March 29, 2014) NEW YORK -- In using their vast wealth to change those rules and laws in order to fit their political views, the Koch brothers are undermining our democracy. That's a betrayal of the most precious thing Americans share. The...
Minnesota’s only railroad track inspector has 4,500 miles of worry
(Source: Star Tribune, March 29, 2014) WINTHROP, Minn. -- Jim Brandt’s steel-toed boots treaded nimbly across the railroad ties as he scanned the track around him for loose bolts, unfastened clips, gaping switches — anything that could prove dangerous for massive...
TCRC, CN agree to start arbitration, ensuring no strike
(Source: Reuters, March 29, 2014) MONTREAL -- Canadian National Railway and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC), which represents CN's conductors, yard workers, and traffic coordinators, have agreed to start an arbitration process that ensures their most...
Crude by rail shipments getting new scrutiny
(Source: The Journal News, March 28, 2014) NEW YORK -- Federal agencies are stepping up their scrutiny of safety issues related to increased freight-rail shipments of crude oil from the booming Bakken Formation oil field in North Dakota and Montana. The National...
Sacramento officials kept in the dark about crude oil transfers at rail facility
(Source: McClatchy News Service, March 31, 2014) SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Since at least last September, trains carrying tank cars filled with crude oil have rolled into the the former McClellan Air Force base. Workers have transferred the oil, including some volatile...
1960s-era tank cars hauling crude oil badly need makeover as accidents multiply
(Source: PublicSource, March 29, 2014) PITTSBURGH, Pa. -- DOT-111s were designed in the early 1960s and originally used to haul nonhazardous materials such as corn syrup. Now, they are the worker bees for the glut of crude oil and ethanol being transported across...
U.S. government says oil industry hampering crude by rail safety
(Source: Associated Press, March 28, 2014) BILLINGS, Mont. -- U.S. transportation officials rebuked the oil industry Friday for not giving up information regulators say they need to gauge the danger of moving crude by rail, after several accidents highlighted the...
TSB data shows rail accidents, fatalities rose in Canada last year
(Source: Progressive Railroading, March 27, 2014) The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) yesterday released its 2013 safety statistics for the rail, marine, pipeline and aviation sectors, which show a total of 3,395 transportation accidents and incidents were...
Amtrak stretches Empire Builder schedule in response to BNSF congestion
(Source: Railway Age, March 27, 2014) NEW YORK -- In recent months, the ontime performance of Amtrak’s Empire Builder has been severely impacted by heavy freight train congestion on host railroad BNSF Railway’s Northern Corridor. A near-exponential spike in crude oil...
