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Recovery Act providing special extended unemployment benefits
(The U.S. Railroad Retirement Board issued the following on May 4, 2009.) CHICAGO — The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act), signed into law by President Obama on February 17, 2009, contains a number of provisions that affect railroad...
Oil splash on Front St. solved
(The following article by Cynthya Porter appeared on the Winona Post website on May 10, 2009.) WINONA, Minn. — Union Pacific stepped forward Wednesday to say one of its locomotives was responsible for the oil that peppered homes, yards and cars on Front Street last...
Historic UP 844 locomotive chugging across Wyoming
(The following appeared on the Billings Gazette website on May 11, 2009.) LARAMIE, Wyo. — The last steam engine built for Union Pacific is about to chug across southern Wyoming on its way to Cheyenne. The UP 844 locomotive is scheduled to stop in Evanston, Green River...
Franklin Yards offers rail hub in Ohio
(The following story by Ed Richter appeared on the Journal News website on May 11, 2009.) FRANKLIN, Ohio — While it’s usually understood that government works at deliberate speed in many instances, that was not the case with the development of the Franklin Yards...
Polk, 93, active in creation of Septa
(The following story by Sally A. Downey appeared on the Philadelphia Inquirer website on May 10, 2009.) PHILADELPHIA — William Harris Polk, 93, formerly of Jenkintown, a civil engineer and public transit expert who was active in the creation of SEPTA, died of heart...
SEPTA selects KeyWatcher for heightened security
(The following appeared at Info4security.com on May 12, 2009.) The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) has deployed the KeyWatcher key control system from Morse Watchmans to keep track of hundreds of keys used at its various bus garages,...
California fast tracking high speed rail
(Reuters circulated the following story by Zaher Karp on May 11, 2009.) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Bullet trains will someday link major California cities at over 220 miles per hour, ferrying commuters along proposed routes from the Bay Area to southern California. This...
Acid leak contained after train derailment
(The following story by Audrey Parente and Eileen Zaffiro appeared on the News-Journal website on May 11, 2009.) DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Hydrochloric acid started leaking from one of the train cars that derailed near Hargrove Grade and U.S. 1 near Palm Coast, but the...
CN’s EJ&E-related STB reports not up to snuff, coalition claims; reports comply with board mandates, Class I says
(The following story by Jeff Stagl appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on May 11, 2009.) The Regional Answer to Canadian National (TRAC) recently filed comments with the Surface Transportation Board (STB) claiming that CN failed to detail numerous...
STB dismisses large rate case based on parties’ voluntary settlement after board mediation
(The Surface Transportation Board issued the following on May 11, 2009.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Surface Transportation Board announced today that the Board has granted the request of a shipper, E.I. Du Pont de Nemours & Company (DuPont), to dismiss its November 2008...
