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Mica announces sites for transport funding public meetings
Rep. John L. Mica, R-Fla., chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, is keeping his word to go on the road to collect ideas for a new multiyear transportation bill, while at the same time educating new House members on transportation issues....
Railroads seek delay of STB competition hearing
The railroad industry is asking the Surface Transportation Board to put off its scheduled May 3 hearing on whether regulators should order freight railroads to give their shippers greater access to competing rail service. Shipper groups, in reply, are telling the STB...
DOT issues strong intermodal rail endorsement
The Department of Transportation has sent the Surface Transportation Board a strong endorsement of intermodal service at major railroads, appearing to weigh in against a possible expansion of STB regulatory power to that type of cargo. The Jan. 31 filing by DOT...
Injured BNSF worker airlifted from rail yard in Willmar, Minn.
Emergency responders used hydraulic jacks to free a man pinned under a 221,000-pound grain car Thursday morning in the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway yard in Willmar. According to a statement issued by BNSF Thursday afternoon, “a BNSF Railway employee sustained...
Rail depot time capsule unearthed in California
If it hadn’t been for the intervention of a Watsonville historian, a bit of history would likely have been lost forever. After Jane Borg, an archivist with the Pajaro Valley Historical Association, learned that the Union Pacific station on Salinas Road was to be torn...
NS facilitates $2.5 billion in industrial investment along rail lines in 2010
(Norfolk Southern issued the following press release on February 2, 2011.) NORFOLK, Va. — Norfolk Southern Corporation participated in the location of 67 new industries and the expansion of 28 existing industries along its rail lines in 2010. New plants and expansions...
Recycled plastic ties coming to some U.S. railroads
Axion International has won a $15 million contract to make railroad ties made from recycled plastic, the company announced yesterday (February 2). The railroad ties will specifically be made of Recycled Structural Composite (RSC), the signature recycled plastic...
CN reaches agreements to improve supply chain efficiencies for container traffic
(CN issued the following press release on February 3, 2011.) MONTREAL — CN, the Montreal Port Authority (MPA) and the two companies that operate the port's three key container terminals announced today two level of service agreements (LSAs) that will drive a strong...
What will become of Amtrak if it’s left out of high-speed rail plans?
Stimulus money for high-speed rail will create jobs and build needed rail improvements in this country, no matter who builds it. But if Amtrak runs it, it could help strengthen the struggling public company by adding new lines that are generating significant buzz. But...
APTA: Businesses predict revenue losses, layoffs if transportation bill action is delayed
A recent American Public Transportation Association (APTA) survey shows that private-sector business leaders in the public transportation industry are concerned about potential revenue losses, hiring freezes and employee layoffs if Congress delays passage of a...
