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Longevity of Railroad Retirement Beneficiaries
(The U.S. Railroad Retirement Board issued the following on December 1, 2009.) CHICAGO — Every three three years, the Railroad Retirement Board’s Chief Actuary conducts a study of the longevity of its annuitants, as part of a valuation of future revenues and benefit...
Year 2010 Railroad Retirement and Unemployment Insurance Taxes
(The U.S. Railroad Retirement Board issued the following on December 1, 2009.) CHICAGO — The amounts of compensation subject to railroad retirement tier I and tier II payroll taxes and the tier I and tier II tax rates on employees and employers remain unchanged in...
KCS Holiday Train stops in Roodhouse this week
(The following story by Maggie Borman appeared on the Journal-Courier website on December 14, 2009.) ROODHOUSE, Ill. — A limited amount of time between Thanksgiving and Christmas and the addition of new stops to the south mean a holiday train will make only one stop...
Coal Creek derailment investigation may take two weeks
(The following story by Howard Pankratz appeared on The Denver Post website on December 11, 2009.) DENVER, Colo. — It may take two weeks to determine what caused eight cars of a 94-car freight train to derail near the entrance to Coal Creek Canyon, a spokesman for...
Editorial: Va. high speed rail picture starts to clear
(The following editorial appeared on The Virginian-Pilot website on December 13, 2009.) NORFOLK, Va. — A state assessment of how best to serve Hampton Roads with high-speed rail appears to put advocates of a southern route at a disadvantage. But the arguments against...
NJ Transit approves $13 million for transportation projects in southern N.J.
(The Associated Press circulated the following on December 12, 2009.) NEWARK, N.J. — New Jersey Transit has approved spending more than $13 million for transportation projects in southern New Jersey. The agency has agreed to fund a study for a proposed extension of a...
Neb. high court says UP worker can sue for injury
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Josh Funk on December 11, 2009.) OMAHA, Neb. — A retired Union Pacific conductor can seek compensation for a knee injury because walking into work from the parking lot was part of the conductor's job, the...
Stimulus money for rails not necessarily headed to New Hampshire
(The following story by Kevin Landrigan appeared on the Nashua Telegraph website on December 12, 2009.) NASHUA, N.H. — All signs point to the first round of stimulus money for high-speed commuter rail – $8 billion worth – getting doled out next year predominantly to...
Amtrak’s Downeaster hopes to tap stimulus money
(The Associated Press circulated the following on December 13, 2009.) PORTLAND, Maine — The operator of Amtrak’s Downeaster is optimistic that up to $39 million in federal stimulus money will be awarded for a long-awaited expansion of the Boston-to-Portland passenger...
MoDOT looking for more improvements for Amtrak
(The following story by Brent Martin appeared at MissouriNet.com on December 13, 2009.) JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — An improvement in mid-Missouri has greatly improved Amtrak service across the state. Now, the Department of Transportation wants to go farther and faster with...
