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Congress set to kill 1 million jobs
(Source: Teamster Nation, February 4, 2013) WASHINGTON, D.C. — We are 24 days away from "sequestration," arbitrary across-the-board spending cuts that congressional Republicans demanded. Sequestration can only be avoided if a super-committee can agree to something...
Railroad Retirement Board customer service plan
(Source: U.S. Railroad Retirement Board press release, January 10, 2013) CHICAGO — The U.S. Railroad Retirement Board's Customer Service Plan promotes the principles and objectives of customer-driven quality service agency-wide. The RRB's plan lays out the standards...
Popular Science: How to prevent America’s next train crash
(Source: Popular Science magazine, February 2013 issue, January 17, 2013) Although the railroad keeps our 21st-century economy running, it’s essentially a 19th-century technology. Rail operators have known for decades that technological fixes could prevent rail...
Washington to Washington: A trip across the U.S. on Amtrak (photos)
(Source: Huffington Post, February 3, 2013) I just spent roughly 63 hours on trains from Washington, D.C. to Seattle and I did it for fun. Seattle was merely the destination printed on my ticket. My real destination was the way I got there: Amtrak's Capitol Limited...
Man accused of lighting fire on Amtrak train in Eugene
(Source: Associated Press, February 2, 2013) EUGENE, Ore. — Eugene police arrested a man accused of causing a disturbance on an Amtrak train and lighting a fire in the restroom of a sleeper car. Full story: The Oregonian
GE inks deal to sell locomotive kits to Russia
(Source: GoErie.com, February 2, 2013) ERIE, Pa. — GE Transportation's reach continues to grow. The company has been doing business for years with the former Soviet state of Kazakhstan, including a joint venture announced in December to produce up to 400 diesel...
CSX plans $26 million track upgrade in Rockland
(Source: The Journal News, February 3, 2013) CSX Corp. plans to build a second railroad track in spanning parts of Haverstraw and Stony Point as part of a $26 million expansion of its 130-mile freight rail line. Full story: The Journal News
BNSF completes double tracking project around Grand Island
(Source: The Independent, February 1, 2013) GRAND ISLAND, Neb. — The double tracking of the BNSF Railway on both sides of Grand Island has been completed. Grand Island thus becomes one of a very small number of small U.S. cities hosting two two-track railroads,...
Keeping CNN honest: 10 ways Anderson Cooper got rail story wrong
(Source: DC Streets Blog, January 31, 2013) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Last Friday, CNN’s Anderson Cooper ran a segment about high-speed rail as part of his “Keeping Them Honest” series. Reporter Drew Griffin did an “exposé” of a Vermont rail project that spent .00006 percent...
CP Rail woos away rival CN’s chief operating officer
(Source: Financial Post, February 4, 2013) OTTAWA — Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. said Monday it managed to persuade Keith Creel to leave rival Canadian National Railway Co. to become its new president and chief operating officer. Full story: Financial Post
