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Amtrak may cut ticket prices again as ridership drops, CEO says
(Bloomberg News circulated the following story by Chris Dolmetsch on March 3, 2009.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amtrak, the national passenger railroad company that cut fares on its high-speed Acela last month, may lower ticket prices on other trains as ridership drops, Chief...
SunRail faces first hearing in Senate Wednesday
(The following story by Dan Tracy appeared on the Orlando Sentinel website on March 3, 2009.) ORLANDO, Fla. — The proposed Central Florida commuter train rolls into its first Senate hearing Wednesday with a full contingent of supporters and likely passage onto the...
NY lawmakers pitch scaled-back, high-speed rail project
(The following story by Brian Tumulty appeared on the Democrat and Chronicle website on March 4, 2009.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood heard a pitch Tuesday from upstate New York lawmakers for a scaled-back high-speed passenger rail line...
U.S. railroads and customers gird for price war
(Reuters circulated the following story by Nick Carey on March 3, 2009.) CHICAGO — The new U.S. Congress promises a fresh battle between major railroads and their customers over freight prices, which the railroads warn could lead to new regulations, reduce their...
BNSF furloughs 140 mechanical department workers
(The following appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on March 3, 2009.) Here’s another sign of the hard economic times: BNSF Railway Co. furloughed 140 mechanical department employees last Thursday because of reduced traffic volumes. The layoffs account for...
CN not ready to announce EJ&E reroutes
(The following story by Richard Wronski appeared on the Chicago Tribune website on March 4, 2009.) CHICAGO — Wednesday is the first day Canadian National Railway Co. can begin running more trains on its newly acquired Elgin, Joliet & Eastern rail line, but CN said it...
Metrolink engineer warned twice about cellphone use
(The following story by Rich Connell and Dan Weikel appeared on the Los Angeles Times website on March 3, 2009.) LOS ANGELES — Supervisors twice warned Metrolink engineer Robert M. Sanchez about improper use of cellphones while in the control cab of trains, according...
Engineer invited teen to operate locomotive
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Kevin Freking and Daisy Nguyen appeared on March 3, 2009.) WASHINGTON, D.C.— The engineer of a commuter train that crashed and killed 25 people in California last year planned to let a teenage boy operate the...
Federal Income Tax and Railroad Retirement Benefits
(The U.S. Railroad Retirement Board issued the following on February 9, 2009.) CHICAGO — The following questions and answers describe the tax statements issued by the Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) each January for Federal income tax purposes. Railroad retirement...
Happy birthday, George Pullman, inventor of the sleeper car
(The following story by Denis Cummings appeared at www.findingdulcinea.com on March 3, 2009.) Inventor and industrialist George Pullman literally raised Chicago from the sewer and built luxury railroad cars for the elite. The media praised his “utopian” company town,...
