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Congressmen seek more federal funding for PTC research, emergency response training
(Source: Progressive Railroading, April 4, 2012) Reps. Scott Tipton (D-Colo.) and Dan Lipinski (D-Ill.) recently sent a joint letter to the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies voicing support for the...
AAR: Railroads report mixed freight traffic for March 2012
(Source: Association of American Railroads press release, April 5, 2012) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Association of American Railroads (AAR) today reported U.S. rail carloads originated in March 2012 totaled 1,123,298, down 69,190 carloads or 5.8 percent, compared with...
Two years later, railroaders remember victims of W.Va. mine disaster
(Source: Bluefield Daily Telegraph, April 6, 2012) BLUEFIELD, W.Va. — Two years have passed since an explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine near Whitesville in Raleigh County claimed the lives of 29 coal miners, but their memory is still powerful enough to stop four...
Rail workers hurt as two freight trains collide in Gary, Ind.
(Source: nwitimes.com, April 8, 2012) GARY, Ind. — A collision between two freight trains on CSX tracks near the U.S. 12 overpass injured two railroad employees and jolted some Miller Beach residents out of sleep early Easter Sunday. One rail worker has a broken leg,...
Sea Change: What Happened When the Pacific Ocean Went Global
(Source: KCET, April 5, 2012) PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — The road west was filled with signs and wonders. Like the hill-hugging black squall that slammed into us as we rolled up into the wrinkled folds of the Edwards Plateau in central Texas; or the ominous funnel cloud...
Railroads Hit by Coal Concerns – Analyst Blog
(Source: NASDAQ, April 5, 2012) WASHINGTON, D.C. — After lower coal production forecasts by U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), railroads are again worried about the proposed regulation by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for power plants...
Police investigate truck-train accident
(Source: The Brownsville Herald, April 5, 2012) BROWNSVILLE, Tex. — A concrete mixer truck and a Union Pacific Railroad train collided near San Benito at about 2:45 p.m. Wednesday. The truck driver was taken to the hospital for injuries that witnesses said did not...
NYC subway chief says line to NJ too expensive
(Source: Bloomberg Businessweek, April 5, 2012) NEW YORK – Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday he hoped the city subway would be extended underneath the Hudson River to New Jersey "in somebody’s lifetime" after a top transit official said it would be too expensive....
ND train depot booms with oil patch passengers
(Source: Bloomberg Businessweek, April 5, 2012) BISMARCK, N.D. – Armies of workers migrating to and from North Dakota’s rich oil fields have made Williston’s train depot the busiest Amtrak stop in the state and the fastest-growing station in the nation, the railroad...
Libby driver accused of DUI after head-on train-Jeep crash
(Source: Missoulian, April 5, 2012) MISSOULA, Mont. — Two Libby area residents escaped injury Wednesday morning when their 1991 Jeep Cherokee was hit by a northbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe train. Montana Highway Patrol Sgt. Duane Bowers said the vehicle became...
