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CN, NS plan ‘MidAm Corridor’
(The following story by John D. Boyd appeared on the Traffic World website on February 11, 2009.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The railroad with the straightest route down the continent and the one that has led in creating higher-speed freight corridors said they want to...
Taking hard line on freight trains that delay Amtrak
(Bloomberg News circulated the following story by Angela Greiling Keane on February 12, 2009.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Freight railroads that cause delays for Amtrak passenger trains using their tracks could be fined under new authority for a U.S. rail oversight board, an...
Senate will vote on labor nominee Hilda Solis
(The following story by Michael A. Fletcher appeared on the Washington Post website on February 12, 2009.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rep. Hilda L. Solis (D-Calif.) took a big step toward becoming President Obama's labor secretary yesterday when a Senate committee voted to...
February Locomotive Engineers & Trainmen News available online
CLEVELAND — The February 2009 issue of the Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen News is now available on the BLET website. Past issues of the official BLET monthly publication dating to 1997 are also on the BLET website. The current issue is available here as a PDF:...
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...
RRB implementing next phase of new toll-free service project
(The U.S. Railroad Retirement Board issued the following on January 12, 2009.) CHICAGO — The U.S. Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) announced that an additional 18 field offices will be added to its nationwide toll-free telephone service by the end of January 2009. A...
Porters’ road to success on ‘rolling hotels’
(The following story by Heidi Benson appeared on the San Francisco Chronicle website on February 11, 2009.) SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — On his first day of work on a passenger train in 1943, James Smith didn't get a chance to drink in the landscape on the run from Los...
African American Pullman porters honored
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Evelyn Nieves on February 10, 2009.) OAKLAND, Calif. — In an era when America traveled by train, one of the best jobs an African-American man could land was working as a Pullman porter. It also was one of the...
Metra to track train wrapped in new tourism ad
(The following story by Richard Wronski appeared on the Chicago Tribune website on February 10, 2009.) CHICAGO — Metra trains have always been an advertising-free zone, where riders have been spared the signs plastered on CTA buses and "L" trains. But that may soon...
NY DOT plan revived to speed rail traffic
(The following story by Cathy Woodruff appeared on the Albany Times-Union website on February 11, 2009.) COLONIE, N.Y. — The state Department of Transportation wants to put a dormant plan to lay a second railroad track between Schenectady and Albany back on the...
