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Port of Cleveland hopes new rail loop boosts business
(Source: Associated Press, January 2, 2013) CLEVELAND, Ohio — A new $4.5 million rail loop linking the Port of Cleveland with main lines nearby is expected to enable faster, more efficient movement of heavy cargo at the site. Full story: Toledo Blade
Group wants to move oilsands products by rail to Alaska
(Source: Edmonton Journal, January 1, 2013) EDMONTON, Alberta — Alison Redford’s cabinet is expected to decide in January whether the government will spend $10 million to study the idea of building a rail line to ship oilsands products from northern Alberta to a port...
Canadian National merges EJ&E, Wisconsin Central railroads
(Source: Munster Times, December 31, 2012) MUNSTER, Ind. — Canadian National Railway has completed a merger of its EJ&E Railway into its Wisconsin Central subsidiary, in a move the company said will have no impact on extensive improvements it pledged when it acquired...
Railroad workers injured in North Platte blowtorch accident
(Source: Associated Press, January 1, 2013) NORTH PLATTE, Neb. — Two employees were taken to a burn unit for treatment after they were injured while working on a rail car at Union Pacific's Bailey Yard in North Platte. Full story: Lincoln Journal-Star
Amtrak seeks safety changes to allow U.S. bullet trains
(Source: Reuters, January 2, 2013) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amtrak will recommend new U.S. rail- safety regulations to allow it to replace its Acela trains in the Northeast U.S. with lighter, faster equipment, Chief Executive Officer Joseph Boardman said. U.S....
ALEC wants to rig the Electoral College for Republicans
(Source: Teamster Nation, January 1, 2013) WASHINGTON, D.C. — ALEC is launching its latest attack on democracy in states that President Obama carried in November: Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. In these states, ALEC's members are trying to change the way...
The middle class languishes as the super-rich thrive
(Source: Los Angeles Times, January 1, 2013) LOS ANGELES — Washington's proposed budget solutions are ever more irrelevant to the problems at hand while being more protective of the 1%. Full story: Los Angeles Times
Trains carrying more oil across U.S. amid boom
(Source: Associated Press, December 28, 2012) BILLINGS Mont. — Energy companies behind the oil boom on the Northern Plains are increasingly turning to an industrial-age workhorse — the locomotive — to move their crude to refineries across the U.S., as plans for new...
Service to honor victims of 2005 Graniteville train wreck
(Source: Aiken Standard, January 1, 2013) GRANITEVILLE, S.C. — A church service on Saturday will memorialize those who lost their lives following the 2005 Graniteville train derailment. The public is welcome to attend Bethlehem Baptist Church in Graniteville, 271...
Short line railroads among eight corporate subsidies in the fiscal cliff bill
(Source: Naked Capitalism, January 1, 2013) NEW YORK — Throughout the months of November and December, a steady stream of corporate CEOs flowed in and out of the White House to discuss the impending fiscal cliff. Many of them would then publicly come out and talk...
