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Editorial: Tri-Rail’s success is critical to mass transit’s future in Florida
(The following editorial appeared on the Sun Sentinel website on March 22, 2009.) FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Tri-Rail may be breaking ridership records, but it's on fiscal life support. Since its inception, Florida's only commuter rail service has been operating...
Metra service: Why Metra is riding slow train to future
(The following story by Richard Wronski appeared on the Chicago Tribune website on March 23, 2009.) CHICAGO — Since Metra was formed more than two decades ago, people have made the use of credit cards, cell phones and the Internet second nature. But Metra conductors...
Amtrak: It’s no Orient Express — but it’s not a bad way to travel
(The following story by Jessica Damiano of Newsday appeared on the Los Angeles Times website on March 21, 2009.) NEW YORK — Train travel: A century ago and a continent away, it was synonymous with luxury. Today, along the Eastern Seaboard, that's not necessarily the...
Canada’s $1B in rail upgrades to create unknown number of jobs
(Canwest News Service circulated the following story by Mike De Souza on March 22, 2009.) OTTAWA — The Harper government has touted nearly $1 billion in new infrastructure investments announced over the past two years for passenger train service as a key part of its...
CN Rail lays off conductors in Kamloops
(The following story by Jeremy Deutsch appeared on the Kamloops This Week website on March 21, 2009.) KAMLOOPS, B.C. — The economic downturn appears to have hit the rail industry, as Canadian National Rail laid off some of its conductors on Friday. Without giving any...
Amtrak chugging closer to funding in Vermont
(The following story by Stephanie M. Peters appeared on the Rutland Herald website on March 21, 2009.) RUTLAND, Vt. — The House Transportation Committee this week restored funding for Amtrak's Ethan Allen Express to a draft of the 2010 transportation budget, but the...
W.Va. justices revive asbestos suit against Norfolk Southern
(The following story by Steve Korris appeared on the West Virginia Record website on March 21, 2009.) CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Railroad workers who sign "total and absolute" releases of claims against their employers when accepting early retirement don't release injury...
Union Pacific says it has no control over drug smuggling
(The following story by Emma Perez-Trevino appeared on The Brownsville Herald website on March 21, 2009.) BROWNSVILLE, Texas — The Union Pacific Railroad has been butting heads with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for years about drugs found in railcars...
Feds trying to derail Mexican drugs
(The following story by Mary Flood appeared on the Houston Chronicle website on March 20, 2009.) HOUSTON, Texas — Union Pacific is failing in its responsibility to stop Mexican drug cartels from hiding narcotics on U.S-bound trains, according to a Justice Department...
Editorial: Cash at last for fast trains: Obama starts push for 21st-century rail system
(The following editorial appeared on the Hartford Courant website on March 23, 2009.) HARTFORD, Conn. — Asked to describe the U.S. passenger rail system, the author and social critic James Howard Kunstler replied, "The Bulgarians would be ashamed of it." Or pretty...
