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Editorial: Toughen safeguards for moving oil by rail
(Source: Star Tribune, January 31, 2014) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. -- North Dakota’s oil-rich shale has made it one of the nation’s newest epicenters of energy production. What Minnesotans may not realize is that the drilling on their northwest neighbor’s plains has made the...
Oil train derailments spur calls for safety measures
(Source: National Public Radio, February 2, 2014) NEW YORK -- Roughly a million barrels of oil are being drilled from the North Dakota plains every day. Tens of millions of dollars have been put toward infrastructure for transporting that oil out of state, but recent...
Old idea for new rail safety problem: slow down trains carrying crude oil
(Source: McClatchy News Service, February 2, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- As federal regulators wrestle over how to improve the safety of crude oil shipments by rail, they could dust off a solution originally proposed in the Nixon administration: slow the trains. Full...
North Dakota oil boom pushes crude to the rails
(Source: Duluth News Tribune, February 3, 2014) DULUTH, Minn. -- The railroads that helped settle the American West more than a century ago are now helping to fuel a new frontier: oil shale production that has reshaped western North Dakota’s Bakken oil field, with...
NJ Transit says Super Bowl fans did not faint at train station
(Source: Star-Ledger, February 2, 2014) NEWARK, N.J. -- NJ Transit is disputing reports of people passing out from the heat and crowding at Secaucus Junction, where a record 27,000-plus riders were funneled onto trains going to the Super Bowl. Full story: Star-Ledger
Super Bowl fans collapse at Secaucus station while waiting for security checks
(Source: CBS New York, February 2, 2014) NEW YORK -- Several people apparently collapsed in the Secaucus Junction train station while waiting in long lines to watch the Seattle Seahawks beat the Denver Broncos 43-8 in Super Bowl XLVIII. Full story and video: CBS New...
NJ Transit sets ridership record at ‘worse than a sauna’ Secaucus Junction
(Source: Star-Ledger, February 2, 2014) NEWARK, N.J. -- NJ Transit's Secaucus Junction has turned into a sardine can. People have heeded the NFL's call to use mass transit for the Super Bowl, but this was beyond what the NFL and NJ Transit had expected. Full story:...
Members of Teamsters Canada Rail Conference reject tentative pact with CN
(Source: Reuters, January 31, 2014) TORONTO -- Canadian National Railway Co's tentative labor contract with about 3,000 train conductors, yardpersons, and traffic coordinators was rejected in a vote by union members, the railroad said on Friday. Full story: Reuters
DEA nabs Amtrak passenger who had kilo of cocaine hidden inside homemade leg cast
(Source: The Smoking Gun, January 30, 2014) An Amtrak passenger carrying crutches due to a purported leg injury suffered in a motorcycle crash was arrested Tuesday after federal agents discovered that the plaster cast on his right leg hid more than a kilo of cocaine....
Railroad Retirement Board sets strategy to move off COBOL programming language
(Source: Federal News Radio, January 30, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Railroad Retirement Board is on a path to finally ditch the COBOL programming language. But moving away from mainframe computers and the computer language first developed in 1959 will take some...
