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Senate bill calls for national freight policy
(The following story by William B. Cassidy appeared on The Journal of Commerce website on July 22, 2010.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — A national multimodal freight transportation plan is the goal of a bill introduced today in the U.S. Senate. Three Democratic senators are...
Critics fault plan for 2 sets of tunnels for NJ Transit, Amtrak
(The following story by Larry Higgs appeared on the Asbury Park Press website on July 25, 2010.) ASBURY PARK, N.J. — Can two rail agencies share a set of new tunnels under the Hudson River to midtown Manhattan and save billions of dollars, instead of building separate...
Railroad Retirement Board 2010 informational conferences
CLEVELAND, July 23 — The U.S. Railroad Retirement Board will hold free informational conferences throughout 2010 for elected officers of all railroad labor unions. The following is a list of informational conferences that have been scheduled thus far for 2010....
RRB: Benefit rate increase for Railroad Unemployment and Sickness benefits
(The Railroad Retirement Board issued the following on June 29, 2010.) CHICAGO — The maximum daily benefit rate payable for claims under the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act increases to $66 from $64 in the new benefit year, which begins July 1, 2010. Benefits are...
Proposed rules would mandate electronic payments for RRB beneficiaries still receiving paper checks
(The U.S. Railroad Retirement Board issued the following on July 12, 2010.) CHICAGO — Paper checks may be a thing of the past for U.S. Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) beneficiaries who still receive them, under a recent initiative announced by the Department of the...
CN contributes $325,000 to Illinois university’s rail engineering program
(The following appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on July 22, 2010.) CN recently donated $325,000 to the University of Illinois’ railroad engineering program. Since 2002, the Class I has donated more than $1 million to the program, which is part of the...
Zero Illinois jobs assured in high speed rail project
(The following story by Bruce Rushton appeared on the State Journal-Register website on July 23, 2010.) SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — All of a $98.3 million federal grant for high-speed rail will go to the Union Pacific Railroad, and there are no assurances that anyone in...
Senate panel grills security officials on 100 percent scanning
(The following story by R.G. Edmonson appeared on The Journal of Commerce website on July 22, 2010.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday grilled senior Department of Homeland Security officials for nearly two hours on gaps remaining in the...
Opinion: America’s system of rail freight is the world’s best, but could high-speed passenger trains could ruin it?
(The following editorial appeared on The Economist website on July 22, 2010.) NEW YORK — Union Station in Los Angeles has been restored as a fine example of the Art Deco architecture that typified California in the 1930s. It has served as a backdrop for many Hollywood...
Buffalo FBI doubles reward for train vandalism
(The Associated Press circulated the following on July 22, 2010.) BUFFALO, N.Y. — The FBI doubled its reward Thursday for help in finding whoever tried to derail an Amtrak passenger train traveling through the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation earlier this month. With...
