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Proposal would add to Union Pacific lines in Geneva
(The following story by Barbara Kois appeared on the Chicago Tribune website on February 11, 2009.) CHICAGO — A plan to build a third set of railroad tracks on the Union Pacific line through part of Geneva has some city residents concerned about noise, the environment...
CSX lays off workers at facilities in Russell, Ky.
(The following report appeared at WSAZ.com on February 10, 2009.) RUSSELL, Ky. — CSX laid off 37 workers at two facilities in the region Tuesday. Thirty-five workers from Russell, Kentucky and two from the Huntington office have been let go. Company spokesman Bob...
CSX works to rebuild trestle destroyed by fire
(The following story by Kaija Wilkinson appeared on the Press-Register website on February 10, 2009.) MOBILE, Ala. — Work crews have demolished a train trestle on a CSX Corp. Inc. main line at Catfish Bayou that burned Saturday afternoon and materials are being...
Study: Moving Colorado rail routes could save $1.4 billion
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by P. Solomon Banda on February 10, 2009.) DENVER — A Colorado Department of Transportation study says moving freight trains away from the Front Range and onto the eastern plains could have up to $1.5 billion in...
Landscape changing for farmers, railroads
(The following story by Tom Lutey appeared on The Billings Gazette website on February 11, 2009.) BILLINGS, Mont. — In the monopoly game Bruce Wright and other grain farmers play, the money is real, there's no $200 for passing Go, and the railroad runs the board....
Coal made big gains last year as economy sputtered
(The following story by Kathy Adams appeared on The Virginian-Pilot website on February 11, 2009.) NORFOLK, Va. — With Hampton Roads' home prices, retail sales and port traffic all down, 2008 delivered more bad economic news than good. Coal exports were one shining...
U.S. Class I workforce continued to contract in December, STB data shows
(The following appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on February 10, 2009.) The U.S. Class I workforce closed 2008 by shrinking for the fifth-straight month. As of mid-December, the workforce stood at 161,189, a 1.1 percent decrease compared with November’s...
NTSB sets hearing in LA deadly train collision
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Jason Pesick on February 10, 2009.) LOS ANGELES — The National Transportation Safety Board has scheduled a hearing on last year's deadly collision of a Metrolink commuter train and a Union Pacific freight train...
CN, NS announce initiative to speed freight between Midwest and Southeast
(CN and Norfolk Southern issued the following on February 10, 2009.) MONTREAL and NORFOLK, Va. — CN and Norfolk Southern Corporation announced today an initiative to create a “MidAmerica Corridor” in which the railroads will share track between Chicago, St. Louis,...
February issue of BLET newsletter 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:...
