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Norfolk Southern launches daily service between Port of Charleston and updated S.C.
(Source: Post and Courier, November 13, 2013) CHARLESTON, S.C. — Railway operator Norfolk Southern today kicked off a daily rail service for moving cargo between Charleston and S.C. State Ports Authority’s new rail yard in the Upstate, officials said today. The train...
Chicago city council OKs expansion of Englewood rail yard
(Source: Chicago Sun-Times, November 13, 2013) CHICAGO — Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s plan to strengthen Chicago as a rail and freight hub got back on track Wednesday after a political derailment. The City Council agreed to expand a pair of tax-increment-financing districts...
Tampa Gateway Rail facility celebrates first year of moving ethanol
(Source: Tampa Bay Times, November 14, 2013) TAMPA — The new Tampa Gateway Rail celebrated its first year in service by moving 3.9 million barrels of ethanol from ships to railroad tank cars, the Tampa Port Authority announced on Wednesday. That was the whole point of...
CSX, GE Transportation partner to pilot liquefied national gas locomotives
(Source: CSX and GE Transportation joint press release, November 13, 2013) JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — CSX Corporation and GE Transportation, a division of GE, today announced an agreement to explore emissions-cutting and efficiency breakthroughs in Liquefied Natural Gas...
Dakota Plains aims to grow crude-by-rail volumes on wider price spread
(Source: Platts, November 13, 2013) HOUSTON — An expansion of Dakota Plains Holdings' Pioneer crude-by-rail terminal in Newtown, North Dakota, is expected to be completed in mid-December as the company gears up to rebound throughput volumes from low levels experienced...
Railroads busy as oil production rises in Western North Dakota; Communities concerned about trains derailing
(Source: WDAY, November 13, 2013) FARGO, N.D. — North Dakota's Bakken blitz has the production and transportation of oil through the state, at an all-time high. That raises concerns about those potentially explosive trains derailing. It's exactly what happened in...
Is oil-by-rail boom an accident waiting to happen?
(Source: Globe and Mail, November 14, 2013) TORONTO — Tick, tick, tick. The countdown to another rail accident is already on. A 90-car derailment last week in Alabama is only the latest in a series of train wrecks unfolding across North America. The next one, as...
SEPTA warns thousands could be impacted if transportation bill doesn’t pass
(Source: NBC Philadelphia, November 13, 2013) PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — SEPTA officials are preparing for the worst, detailing a doomsday scenario that they say will take place if Pennsylvania lawmakers don’t pass a transportation funding measure in the next nine days. Full...
Hoffa: Congress, Detroit have role in improving retirement confidence
(Source: Column by James P. Hoffa, General President, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, published in the Detroit News and at Teamster.org on November 13, 2013) WASHINGTON, D.C. — A secure retirement used to be seen as a right for all hard-working Michiganders....
RRB: Medicare Part B premiums remain the same in 2014
(Source: U.S. Railroad Retirement Board press release, November 1, 2013) CHICAGO — The standard Medicare Part B monthly premium will be $104.90 in 2014, the same amount as in 2013. Some beneficiaries will continue to pay higher premiums based on their modified...
