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No Railroad Retirement benefit increase in 2010; Most retiree earnings limits remain at 2009 levels
(The Railroad Retirement Board issued the following on October 16, 2009.) CHICAGO — Railroad retirement annuities, like social security benefits, will not increase in January 2010 as there was no increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) from the third quarter of...
No one injured in Nebraska coal train derailment
(The Associated Press circulated the following on October 18, 2009.) OVERTON, Neb. — All rail lines are open at the site where an eastbound Union Pacific coal train derailed in central Nebraska. U.P. spokesman Tom Lange says no one was injured when 39 of 136 cars went...
Amtrak’s Blue Water line to turn 35, hold celebration
(The following story by Aaron Aupperlee appeared on the Kalamazoo Gazette website on October 16, 2009.) KALAMAZOO, Mich. — The Chicago-bound Blue Water Amtrak train has stopped thousands of times at the Kalamazoo station. People get on. People get off. It rolls away,...
Second MARC electric locomotive back on tracks
(The following story by Michael Dresser appeared on the Baltimore Sun website on October 16, 2009.) BALTIMORE, Md. — Amtrak has finished overhauling and has returned to MARC the second of four AEM-7 electric locomotives that had been out of service for more than two...
Opinion: All aboard for Houston-area commuter rail
(The following column by Ed Emmett appeared on the Houston Chronicle website on October 17, 2009.) HOUSTON — How many times have you wondered why the railroad tracks going into and out of Houston aren't being used for commuter trains? Or why so many former tracks have...
U.S. Transportation chief Ray LaHood in Galesburg on Tuesday
(The following story by John R. Pulliam appeared on the Register-Mail website on October 17, 2009.) GALESBURG, Ill. — It’s not often that a member of the president’s Cabinet visits Galesburg, but when U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood arrives here Tuesday...
Report says southern Montana Amtrak route will draw riders, but startup pricey
(The following story by Keila Szpaller appeared on the Missoulian website on October 17, 2009.) MISSOULA, Mont. — If you build it, they will come. But it will cost you a lot of money. That's the conclusion of an Amtrak report released Friday on the possible revival of...
Seattle port races: Low profile, high stakes
(The following story by Brian Slodysko appeared on the Seattle Post-Intelligencer website on October 19, 2009.) SEATTLE, Wash. — When Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels was ousted by voters, one of the chief criticisms lobbed at him was that he ran the city like a...
VRE picks French company over Amtrak to run trains
(The following story by Jennifer Buske appeared on the Washington Post website on October 17, 2009. Herbert Harris Jr. is Chairman of the BLET’s Washington D.C. Legislative Board.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Virginia Railway Express plans to abandon its 17-year relationship...
BNSF hit with $4.2 million sanction following verdict in 2003 crash
(The following story by Tad Vezner appeared on the Pioneer Press website on October 17, 2009.) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Burlington Northern Santa Fe abused evidence so flagrantly after a 2003 fatal train collision in Anoka — resulting in a delayed civil trial,...
