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Metra asks passengers for patience during ongoing cold-weather delays
(Source: Chicago Sun-Times, January 9, 2014) CHICAGO -- After a week full of cancellations and delays, officials with Metra pleaded for understanding from riders Thursday as they held a rail yard demonstration to show the challenges workers face in keeping switches...
Giulietti named new Metro-North president
(Source: Railway Age, January 9, 2014) NEW YORK -- Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman and CEO Thomas F. Prendergast announced Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014, the appointment of Joseph J. Giulietti as Metro-North Railroad president, succeeding Howard Permut, who...
Cracked wheel, broken rail found at site of CN oil train derailment
(Source: Associated Press, January 9, 2014) PLASTER ROCK, New Brunswick -- Canada's Transportation Safety Board said Thursday a cracked wheel might have caused a train carrying oil to derail in New Brunswick, causing a large fire that continues to burn a day and a...
Two derailed oil tankers in New Brunswick fire likely older type
(Source: Reuters, January 9, 2014) TORONTO -- Some of the crude-oil tanker cars on the Canadian National Railway train that derailed and caught fire in New Brunswick on Tuesday appear to be of an older type that regulators have warned is vulnerable to leaks and...
Oil by rail gathers steam as new capacity comes online
(Source: Financial Post, January 10, 2014) OTTAWA -- New terminals and expanded capacity are coming on stream even as recent derailments put the sector under increasing scrutiny. Full story: Regina Leader-Post
Editorial: Oil train safety regulations fall behind industry
(Source: The Olympian, January 10, 2014) OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Fossil fuels have ignited a boom for the American railroad industry, moving coal and crude oil from the Northern Plains across the country. Up to now, West Coast citizens have focused mainly on the...
Gov. Jerry Brown defends funding for bullet train
(Source: Sacramento Bee, January 9, 2014) SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Calling his high-speed rail project consistent with California’s history as “a generator of dreams and great initiatives,” Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday defended his decision to shore up the project’s...
High-speed rail to be key budget issue, leader of California Senate says
(Source: Los Angeles Times, January 9, 2014) SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A proposal to use money from the state’s cap-and-trade system of pollution credits to help fund the proposed high-speed rail system “is going to be one of the central issues in the budget,” Senate...
AAR: Freight rail traffic for 2013 saw record intermodal growth, slight dip in carloads
(Source: Association of American Railroads press release, January 9, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Association of American Railroads (AAR) today reported that U.S. rail traffic for 2013 saw record intermodal growth with a slight full year decrease in carloadings. U.S....
Railway Age names Amtrak’s Joe Boardman ‘Railroader of the Year’
(Source: Railway Age, January 9, 2014) NEW YORK -- Railway Age’s 51st Railroader of the Year, Amtrak President and Chief Executive Officer Joseph H. Boardman, is the first Amtrak chief executive since the legendary W. Graham Claytor Jr. in 1989 to be so honored. Full...
