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New York group endorses CSX plan for higher rail speed
(The following appeared on the Albany Times-Union website on June 7, 2011.) ALBANY, N.Y. — The state's major passenger rail advocacy group, in an effort to get tens of millions of dollars worth of stalled rail projects rolling across upstate, has endorsed CSX...
Editorial: Case for high-speed rail grows only stronger
(The following editorial appeared on the Sacramento Bee website on June 7, 2011.) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The last time many Californians thought about high-speed rail was in the voting booth. On that day, Nov. 4, 2008, more than 6 million of us voted to tell the state...
Massachusetts governor lauds CSX’s Worcester project
(The following appeared on the Worcester Telegram & Gazette website on June 6, 2011.) WORCESTER, Mass — Ground was broken this morning on the $100 million expansion of the CSX freight yard between Shrewsbury and Franklin streets, culminating what had been a long and...
Norfolk Southern breaks ground on McCalla hub
(The following appeared on the Birmingham News website on June 6, 2011.) McCALLA, Ala. — Norfolk Southern officials broke ground this morning on the railroad company's $97.5 million hub being built on 316 acres in McCalla. Wick Moorman, chief executive of Norfolk...
Union Pacific wins soy customer survey
(Union Pacific issued the following press release on June 2, 2011.) ANKENY, Iowa — Union Pacific was selected as the top performing railroad by leading U.S. agricultural shippers in the second annual Soy Transportation Coalition (STC) Rail Customer Satisfaction Index....
AAR names Knight chief lobbyist
(The following appeared on The Journal of Commerce website on June 3, 2011.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Association of American Railroads will have a new person serving as its top lobbyist, as Laurie Knight will take the post of senior vice president of government affairs...
New mediator to join the NMB
(The National Mediation Board issued the following on June 3, 2011.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Mediation Board (NMB) is pleased to announce that Andy Nordgren has accepted a position as a Mediator for the agency. In this capacity, he will mediate Airline and...
NS, CSX to break ground on intermodal projects
(The following appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on June 3, 2011.) On Monday, Norfolk Southern Corp. plans to hold a groundbreaking ceremony for a $97.5 million intermodal terminal in McCalla, Ala. Slated to open in 2012, the 316-acre Birmingham...
Virginia commuters waiting for the promise of high-speed rail
(The following appeared on the Washington Post website on June 4, 2011.) RICHMOND, Va. — At 6 each morning, Tom Herbert, a software engineer from Richmond, boards the No. 86 train at the Staples Mill station and begins his 2-hour-35-minute commute to Northern...
Texas shale work benefits railroads
(The following appeared on the Houston Chronicle website on June 4, 2011.) HOUSTON, Texas — Wherever oil and natural gas comes out of the ground, plenty of people make money, from the landowners and investors to the drilling equipment companies and crew workers. So do...
