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CP Rail names ex-CN official as its chief operations officer, VP
(The following story by Dina O'Meara appeared on the Calgary Herald website on April 7, 2010.) CALGARY — Canadian Pacific Railway has named Edmond Harris chief operations officer and executive vice-president. Harris, who retired from rival Canadian National Railway in...
Norfolk Southern rail car releases vapor in Roanoke
(The following story by Jorge Valencia appeared on the Roanoke Times website on April 7, 2010.) ROANOKE, Va. — Roanoke firefighters closed a 14-block stretch of Shenandoah Avenue early this evening when a rail car in the adjacent Norfolk Southern yard apparently...
Report to offer glimpse of Calif. high-speed rail plan
(The following story by Michael Cabanatuan appeared on the San Francisco Chronicle website on April 5, 2010.) SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Since voters backed a $9.95 billion bond to fund California's high-speed rail system nearly two years ago, critics have questioned the...
Poll: Half of U.S. backs high-speed rail
(UPI circulated the following on April 6, 2010.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — About half of U.S. residents support President Barack Obama's plan to develop high-speed rail corridors, a poll released Tuesday indicated. The Canadian polling company, Angus Reid Public Opinion,...
Railroad shares mixed at the close of April 6 trading
(The Associated Press circulated the following on April 6, 2010.) NEW YORK — Shares of some top railroads companies were mixed at the close of trading: CSX fell $.15 or .3 percent, to $52.46. Canadian National fell $.59 or 1.0 percent, to $61.38. Canadian Pacific fell...
JPMorgan fund bets on U.S. rail companies, follows Buffett
(Bloomberg News circulated the following story by Chris Cooper on April 7, 2010.) NEW YORK — JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s railway fund is betting on U.S. freight companies such as Union Pacific Corp., CSX Corp. and Norfolk Southern Corp., following Warren Buffett’s decision...
Benefits under Railroad Retirement and Social Security
(The U.S. Railroad Retirement Board issued the following on March 3, 2010.) CHICAGO — Employers and employees covered by the Railroad Retirement Act pay higher retirement taxes than those covered by the Social Security Act, so that railroad retirement benefits remain...
Railroad Retirement Board 2010 informational conferences
CLEVELAND, March 12 — 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....
Ohio River port hires RailAmerica unit
(The following story by John D. Boyd appeared on The Journal of Commerce website on April 6, 2010.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Perry County Port Authority, which operates an Ohio River cargo facility at Tell City, Ind., has contracted with a RailAmerica short line to run...
Longtime Amtrak spokesman Cliff Black retires
(The following story by Eric Anderson appeared on the Albany Times-Union website on April 5, 2010.) ALBANY, N.Y. — L. Clifford Black retired from his job as Amtrak’s chief spokesman at the end of March, according to a report from the National Corridors Initiative’s...
