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STB’s new math boosts railroad revenues
(Source: National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, January 28, 2014) ARLINGTON, Va. -- After applying some corrective math, federal regulators with the Surface Transportation Board (STB) say the freight railroad business is doing better than they first thought....
CN derailment closes Metra North Central line
(Source: Chicago Tribune, January 28, 2014) CHICAGO -- Metra's North Central line from Antioch was shut down this morning after a freight car derailed just after midnight, affecting hundreds of riders on one of the coldest commutes so far this winter. A set of wheels...
Metra weathering latest polar episode
(Source: Daily Herald, January 27, 2014) CHICAGO -- Just one challenge — extreme cold — instead of the one-two punch of blowing snow and subzero temperatures earlier this month made for comparatively smooth trips Monday on Metra. The commuter railroad experienced some...
Brutal cold shuts schools, delays travel in U.S. Midwest
(Source: Reuters, January 28, 2014) NEW YORK -- Bitter cold and high winds from the arctic pushed wind chills to dangerous levels across the U.S. upper Midwest on Monday, forcing officials to close schools and slowing public transit and river traffic. Amtrak has also...
CSX says crude oil shipments through Washington D.C. are rare
(Source: Washington Post, January 27, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- CSX Transportation says residents in a Southeast Washington community who have raised concerns about trains carrying crude oil passing through the District can rest assured that crude oil transportation...
Meeting on possible crude oil trains through D.C. turns tense after EPA doesn’t show up
(Source: Think Progress, January 27, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A meeting that was supposed to be for residents to talk to Environmental Protection Agency representatives about concerns surrounding a possible reconstruction of a D.C.-based freight train tunnel took an...
LIRR edges Metro-North as busiest U.S. commuter railroad
(Source: Associated Press, January 27, 2014) NEW YORK -- More passengers rode the Long Island Rail Road in 2013 than any commuter rail line in the country, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The agency runs the New York City transit system, as...
Historic Big Boy steam locomotive returns to rails
(Source: Press-Enterprise, January 24, 2014) RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Union Pacific’s historic steam engine, No. 4014, will be towed early Sunday from the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds – its home for the past half century – and onto Metrolink’s tracks for a slow journey...
Heir apparent at Norfolk Southern?
(Source: Virginian Pilot, January 26, 2014) NORFOLK, Va. -- Some refer to it as “the succession question.” Last week, James A. Squires was elected to Norfolk Southern’s Board of Directors. That move came more than seven months after he became president of the...
Jacksonville Port Authority awards $23 million contract for railroad yard
(Source: Florida Times-Union, January 24, 2014) JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The JaxPort board on Friday awarded a $23.5 million construction contract to Jacksonville-based Dana B. Kenyon Company for the design and construction of the yard, which is called an “intermodal...
