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Officials respond to high-speed rail concerns in Fresno’s Chinatown
(Source: Fresno Bee September 26, 2013) FRESNO, Calif. — The tone was frustration and confusion from many of about 50 people at a high-speed rail meeting in downtown Fresno Thursday, held at the Fresno Fire Department headquarters. Some didn't know if their properties...
California getting more of its oil by rail
(Source: Los Angeles Times, September 26, 2013) LOS ANGELES — Oil extracted from massive new fields in North Dakota and other states is rolling into California in growing quantities aboard long-haul freight trains, paralleling a surge in crude moving on rail across...
Inland NW needs more spill response capacity for oil trains
(Source: Northwest Public Radio, September 26, 2013) PULLMAN, Wash. — The rapid rise in crude oil shipping by rail means Northwest states need to bulk up their oil spill response capacity. That's according to members of a task force of Pacific states and British...
Study from Indiana DOT outlines Amtrak options
(Source: Indianapolis Star, September 26, 2013) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — A state study released Thursday offers ways Indiana can improve Amtrak’s Indianapolis-to-Chicago service while reducing the tax money needed to keep it running after federal funding ends next week....
AAR: Railroads report intermodal volume up 3.4 percent over 2012 for week ending September 21
(Source: Association of American Railroads press release, September 26, 2013) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported mixed weekly rail traffic for the week ending September 21, 2013 with total U.S. weekly carloads of 288,160 carloads,...
Lac Megantic: Canadian regulator extends MMA’s operating license
(Source: Toronto Star, September 26, 2013) TORONTO — The Canadian Transportation Agency has once again extended Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway’s operating licence, just days before it was set to expire. Full story: Toronto Star
Connecticut governor sees partial rail line fix by weekend
(Source: Reuters, September 26, 2013) HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut's governor said Metro North might be able to restore partial power to a vital rail line by the weekend so the thousands of his state's residents who work in New York City, including Wall Street, can...
Metro-North, Con Edison tested plan that led to failure
(Source: Connecticut Post, September 26, 2013) STAMFORD, Conn. — As the investigation continues into the cause of Wednesday's power failure that pulled the plug on Metro-North's busy New Haven Line, a railroad spokeswoman said the plan to take a secondary electrical...
Metro-North commuters slog to work
(Source: Wall Street Journal, September 26, 2013) NEW YORK — Railroad and utility officials said they were moving closer to restoring some electric power to a vital stretch of the Northeast Corridor north of the city, amid an outage that hampered commuters and...
Frustration mounts over Metro-North line’s woes
(Source: New York Times, September 26, 2013) NEW YORK — One day after a power failure scrambled service on the New Haven line of the Metro-North Railroad, travelers on Thursday negotiated the patchwork system assembled in its place, or simply avoided the rails...
