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New train safety system unveiled with 2008 Metrolink crash in mind
(Source: Los Angeles Times, September 10, 2012) LOS ANGELES — Transportation officials are scheduled to unveil a safety measure Monday morning designed to keep trains from colliding even in case of human error. Called "positive train control" technology, the system...
New NS intermodal teriminal a big deal for West Virginia
(Source: Charleston Daily Mail, September 7, 2012) CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia's admission ticket to the logistics big league was punched Aug. 30 when Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin and state Secretary of Transportation Paul Mattox announced that Mountaineer Contractors...
KCS rolls out new rail security program titled REACT
(Source: Kansas City Southern press release, September 7, 2012) KANSAS CITY, Mo. — With each anniversary of the tragic events in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C. on September 11, 2001, we are all reminded of the importance of vigilance in maintaining safety...
Amtrak: City of New Orleans will run on Monday after Hurricane Isaac
(Source: Associated Press, September 7, 2012) NEW ORLEANS — Amtrak says the City of New Orleans passenger train will pull into its namesake city on Monday — the first time since Aug. 27, when service was suspended because of Hurricane Isaac. Full story: The...
General President Hoffa appoints new Director of Teamsters Warehouse Division
(Source: International Brotherhood of Teamsters press release, September 6, 2012) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Teamsters General President James P. Hoffa announced today the appointment of Steve Vairma to Director of the Teamsters Warehouse Division. Steve Vairma also currently...
Amtrak probe finds phony overtime claims
(Source: Washington Post, September 6, 2012) WASHINGTON, D.C. — In what Amtrak’s watchdog agency is calling a host of “serious abuses,” an undercover surveillance operation during 2010 and last year has found multiple employees in the mid-Atlantic region’s...
AAR: Railroads report intermodal traffic up 4.3 percent over 2011
(Source: Association of American Railroads press release, September 6, 2012) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Association of American Railroads (AAR) today reported U.S. rail carloads originated in August 2012 totaled 1,461,680, down 1.4 percent compared with August 2011....
BLET member publishes book: “The Life and Times of a Railroad Engineer”
(Source: Superior Telegram, September 7, 2012. Bud Hoekstra is a retired CP Rail System/U.S. locomotive engineer and member of Division 494 in Minneapolis, Minn.) SUPERIOR, Wisc. — For people connected to the railroad in some way, “The Life and Times of a Railroad...
MBTA rail cars two years delayed, T chief heads to S. Korea
(Source: Boston Globe, September 7, 2012) BOSTON — The MBTA’s acting general manager will fly to Seoul this weekend to grill executives of a South Korean company that has fallen about two years behind on a $190 million contract to build badly needed commuter rail...
A late arrival for the last of SEPTA’s new Silverliner V cars
(Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, September 7, 2012) PHILADELPHIA — SEPTA's final group of new Silverliner V railcars won't arrive this month as scheduled, because of a lack of parts. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, Hyundai Rotem Co., the South Korean...
