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New Orleans rail returns
(The following article by John D. Boyd was posted on the Traffic World website on February 23.) WASHINGTON -- Union Pacific Railroad and CSX Transportation resumed their train movements through New Orleans, which had been disrupted for weeks after a CSX bridge fire...
Ohio works to get on track for a share of railway stimulus funds
(The following article by Karen Farkas was posted on the Cleveland Plain Dealer on February 23.) CLEVELAND -- Passenger rail advocates in Ohio don’t want to be left at the station as an unprecedented $8 billion in economic stimulus funds are distributed for high-speed...
Vegas, Midwest seek the $8 billion for fast trains
(The Associated Press circulated the following article by Jim Abrams on February 21.) WASHINGTON -- The Republicans attacking President Barack Obama’s economic stimulus package point to a project they dub the "Sin Express" -- a high speed rail link between Anaheim,...
Full steam ahead for California bullet train
(AFP circulated the following article on February 22.) SACRAMENTO, California -- One hundred and forty years after a transcontinental railroad linked California to the world, trains are being hailed as integral to the state’s growth in the 21st century. This time,...
STB’s Buttrey exits March 13
(The following article by John D. Boyd was posted on the Traffic World website on February 22.) WASHINGTON -- W. Douglas Buttrey, one of two Republican appointees on the three-person Surface Transportation Board, will leave his post March 13 as a commissioner at the...
Meet Carlyle Smith, the engineer who drove the president’s train
(The following article by Frederick N. Rasmussen was posted on the Baltimore Sun website on February 22. Brother Smith is a member of BLET Division 482.) BALTIMORE -- While driving to the barbershop 10 days before Christmas, Carlyle Smith, an Amtrak locomotive...
Rails Knock Higher Truck Weight Limits
(The following article by John Gallagher was posted on the Traffic World website on February 20.) WASHINGTON -- A shipper-backed proposal to increase truck productivity by lifting federal weight restrictions was opposed by railroad interests at a recent National...
EJ&E tain traffic to increase slowly
(The following article by Mick Zawislak was posted on the Daily Herald website on February 20.) CHICAGO -- The signs are up but motorists shouldn't worry just yet about increased train traffic on some rail crossings in Mundelein and other areas, village and railroad...
Report: Weekly U.S. rail shipments fell 12.2 percent
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on February 20.) WASHINGTON -- Shipments carried by U.S. railroads fell 12.2 percent last week compared with the same week a year earlier, continuing steep declines that accelerated late last year, a major...
AAR’s Hamberger to STB: Passenger-rail expansion shouldn’t impede freight-rail growth
(The following article was posted on the Progressive Railroading website on February 20.) WASHINGTON -- Freight railroads support efforts to expand passenger-rail service where needed, but such expansion should preserve and provide for freight-rail growth. That’s the...
