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Improving portion of Midwest high-speed rail corridor could cost $1.5 billion
(Source: Chicago Tribune, February 24, 2014) CHICAGO --Improving passenger service on the slowest portion of Illinois' emerging 110-mph rail corridor, between Chicago and Joliet, will cost an estimated $1.5 billion, officials said Monday. Full story: Chicago Tribune
To make shipping oil safer, railroads agree to 8 measures
(Source: New York Times, February 21, 2014) NEW YORK -- Responding to concerns about the safety of trains carrying oil around the country, federal regulators on Friday outlined steps to reduce the risk of rail shipments and bolster confidence in the fast-growing...
Bakken Shale oil carries high combustion risk
(Source: Wall Street Journal, February 23, 2014) NEW YORK -- Crude oil from North Dakota's Bakken Shale formation contains several times the combustible gases as oil from elsewhere, a Wall Street Journal analysis found, raising new questions about the safety of...
1960s Jet Train is still America’s fastest locomotive
(Source: Gizmodo, February 21, 2013) In the mid-1960's, New York Central Railroad engineer Don Wetzel was exploring ways to make trains run safer, cheaper, but most importantly: faster. And, clearly, the most logical means of accomplishing all three of these...
Latest location of Metro-North woes: Danbury
(Source: Hartford Courant, February 21, 2014) HARTFORD, Conn. -- Already plagued by crises, Metro-North has run into a failure of the new $70 million Danbury branch improvements so severe that its commuters are driving to trains on the Harlem line more than 10 miles...
MTA creates new safety committee; Metro-North to create chief safety officer role
(Source: The Journal News, February 24, 2014) NEW YORK -- The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, still reeling from a December fatal Metro-North Railroad derailment and other accidents, plans to announce new safety efforts Monday morning, including the creation of...
Louisiana port seeks input on proposed rail spur
(Source: The Advocate, February 22, 2014) BATON ROUGE, La. -- State and federal officials, along with rail company representatives, have been asked to meet Tuesday with commissioners of the Port of Greater Baton Rouge to discuss rail needs at the facility in Port...
On the Acela: Amtrak’s fast train from D.C. to N.Y.C.
(Source: Star Tribune, February 21, 2014) NEW YORK -- An “emblem of motion and power — pulse of the continent.” That’s how Walt Whitman described a train speeding through a snowstorm in “To a Locomotive in Winter,” a poem that thrills to the vehicle’s “fierce-throated...
Inside Amtrak’s plan to give free rides to writers
(Source: The Wire, February 23, 2014) NEW YORK -- Amtrak has begun offering "writers’ residencies" to, well, writers – long roundtrip rides aboard Amtrak trains dedicated solely for the purpose of writing. Full story: The Wire
Rep. Larsen says he’s pushing for safer crude oil trains
(Source: Bellingham Herald, February 21, 2014) BELLINGHAM, Wash. -- Larsen said the oil industry, railroads and federal regulators are scrambling to get caught up in response to the oil production boom in the Bakken oilfields of North Dakota. Full story: Bellingham...
