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Opinion: Let’s not make a deal
(Source: New York Times, November 9, 2012) NEW YORK — For the third time since President Obama took office, Republicans are trying to use economic blackmail to achieve a goal they lack the votes to achieve through the normal legislative process. In particular, they...
Pleas for help from Sandy’s Teamster victims: ‘Bring shovels, gloves and give us a hand’
(Source: Teamster Nation, November 4, 2012) Teamster locals in New York and New Jersey are trying to reopen their offices and organize relief efforts for Hurricane Sandy victims, including Teamsters who lost their homes and all their possessions. Teamster sanitation,...
Eisenhower locomotive returns to Yorkshire for makeover
(Source: BBC, November 8, 2012) LONDON — An A4 locomotive that has been in the USA for 50 years has returned to Yorkshire for a makeover. Dwight D. Eisenhower was built in Doncaster in 1937 and shipped to North America in the 1960s. It is being repainted at the...
CN Rail CEO says Canada legislation could derail service
(Source: Reuters, November 7, 2012) VANCOUVER — Looming legislation aimed at improving rail service for shippers in Canada could backfire and end up making the country's sprawling rail networks less efficient, the chief executive of Canada's biggest railroad warned on...
20 months for man in Amtrak bomb threat case
(Source: Washington Post, November 7, 2012) WASHINGTON, D.C. — A 27-year-old District man was sentenced to 20 months in prison for making bomb threats that delayed more than 1,000 Amtrak passengers. He admitted that he called Amtrak’s national communications center in...
Union Pacific’s Powder River Basin coal loadings dropped in October
(Source: Progressive Railroading, November 7, 2012) In October, Union Pacific Railroad loaded 843 coal trains in the Southern Powder River Basin compared with 1,047 trains in October 2011. In addition, the Class I announced it loaded 246 coal trains in the...
STB to review Tongue River Railroad’s entire rail line proposal
(Source: Progressive Railroading, November 7, 2012) The Surface Transportation Board (STB) recently issued a decision clarifying that it will review the Tongue River Railroad Co. Inc.'s (TRRC) rail line construction proposal in its entirety, including a new...
Louisiana’s Lt. Governor hears plans to bring Amtrak to Shreveport
(Source: Shreveport Times, November 7, 2012) BATON ROUGE – Amtrak commuter service between the Shreveport-Bossier City and Dallas-Fort Worth areas could be accomplished with relatively little expense and trouble, proponents of the project today told Louisiana Lt. Gov....
California oversight panel approves contract for high-speed rail land
(Source: The Fresno Bee, November 7, 2012) FRESNO, Calif. —The state Public Works Board agreed Tuesday to a streamlined process for acquiring land for high-speed rail in the San Joaquin Valley, easing the way for negotiations to begin with propoerty owners. Full...
Amtrak, NJ Transit tunnels are dry; More Penn Station trains can roll on Friday
(Source: Transportation Nation, November 7, 2012) Amtrak’s has six tunnels under the East and Hudson Rivers. They are 102-years-old. This was the first time any of them flooded, and Sandy left four of them filled with water. Amtrak pumped one dry two days later. It...
