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Commuters will feel the pinch of NJ Transit
(The following story by Judy Rife appeared on the Times Herald-Record website on March 10, 2010.) MIDDLETOWN, N.Y. — South of the border, the names and numbers are different, but the story is the same: growing deficit, lower ridership, higher costs, less state aid....
Public transit trips exceed 10 billion again in 2009, but fall short of 2008 record
(The following appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on March 9, 2010.) Despite high unemployment, low gas prices and a weak economy, trips taken on U.S. public transportation systems in 2009 surpassed 10 billion for the fourth-straight year, according to...
LaHood to airlines: Get onboard the high-speed train
(The following story by Scott McCartney appeared on the Wall Street Journal website on March 10, 2010.) NEW YORK — The airline industry was left fuming last year when some $8 billion on federal stimulus money was appropriated for high-speed rail while air-traffic...
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 man carves love for locomotives into wooden models
(The following story by Chris Dumond appeared on the Lynchburg News Advance website on March 8, 2010.) LYNCHBURG, Va. — The wood taketh away Fred Reburn from the railroad and the wood giveth him back to it. On Sept. 12, 1979, Reburn, a brakeman and conductor for...
Editorial: Fort Worth rail bottleneck endangers young lives
(The following editorial appeared on the Fort Worth Star-Telegram website on March 9, 2010.) FORT WORTH, Texas — Fort Worth missed out on a $60.9 million federal economic stimulus grant that was supposed to be combined with money from the BNSF and Union Pacific...
Fast train fares won’t be that high, Wisc. DOT official says
(The following story by Larry Sandler appeared on the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel website on March 8, 2010.) MILWAUKEE, Wisc. — High-speed rail critics are overstating the fare likely to be charged on a planned train line connecting Milwaukee and Madison, a top state...
CSX train derails in Philadelphia’s Center City
(The following story by James Osborne appeared on the Philadelphia Inquirer website on March 9, 2010.) PHILADELPHIA — A 115-car cargo train derailed in Center City last night, with five cars leaving the tracks near 23d and Race Streets. Battalion Fire Chief Mike Kane...
Atlanta firm offers to link commuter, high-speed rail
(The following story by Dan Tracy appeared on the Orlando Sentinel website on March 8, 2010.) ORLANDO, Fla. — A metro Atlanta company that's struggled in the past is offering to raise and spend $223 million to build a magnetically levitated train that would link two...
Editorial: Intermodal yard points to larger questions about Fayette’s future
(The following editorial appeared on The Memphis News website on March 9, 2010.) MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Piperton-Rossville area of Fayette County will change and the central question is how. But that’s not the only question to consider as Norfolk Southern works to...
