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Locomotive Engineers & Trainmen News for January available online
CLEVELAND — The January 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:...
Railways overcharged farmers: suit
(The Canadian Press circulated the following on January 14, 2009.) SASKATOON, Sask. — A Saskatchewan man is suing Canada's major railways claiming they have overcharged western farmers for shipping their grain since 1983. The lawsuit filed by Gordon Wallace also...
Rail safety fears raised along CN, Via Rail tracks in Windsor
(The following story by Gary Rennie appeared on the Windsor Star website on January 14.) WINDSOR — The town has major safety issues looming with both railways that cross the municipality, council was told Tuesday. Council agreed with a petition from 150 residents to...
Virginia Beach in talks with NS to buy right of way for light rail
(The following story by Aaron Applegate appeared on The Virginian-Pilot website on January 14.) VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — The City Council met in closed session Tuesday afternoon to talk about the city's negotiations with Norfolk Southern Corp. to buy the 10.6-mile...
Amtrak reservations for inauguration must be picked up
(The following story by Melodie N. Martin appeared on the Richmond Times-Dispatch website on January 14.) RICHMOND, Va. — Many who reserved a seat on a Washington-bound Amtrak train leaving the Staples Mill Road station on Inauguration Day still haven't picked up...
NJ Transit trying to discern cause of Monday madness
(The following story by Judy Rife appeared on the Times Herald-Record website on January 14, 2009.) SECAUCUS, N.J. — NJ Transit's rail operations managers are investigating the cause of — and response to — switch problems that turned the evening rush Monday into a...
Is company’s demise a setback for SunRail? Backers say no
(The following story by Dan Tracy appeared on the Orlando Sentinel website on January 14, 2009.) ORLANDO, Fla. — The commuter train that is supposed to run 61 miles through Central Florida may not be as sleek, eco-friendly and futuristic as promised. The Colorado...
Amtrak says repairs will disrupt Northeast Corridor service
(The following story by Stephen Chupaska appeared on The Day website on January 13, 2009.) NEW LONDON, Conn. — Amtrak announced Monday that repairs will knock one of two mainline tracks along the Connecticut shore out of service between July and November. The rail...
Editorial: SEPTA’s “Quiet Cars”
(The following editorial appeared on the Philadelphia Inquirer website on January 12, 2009.) PHILADELPHIA — News of SEPTA's plans to pilot a "quiet car" on the R5-Lansdale/Doylestown line this week prompted at least one spirited riders' discussion within earshot of...
Unions see good shot at winning change in federal labor law
(The following story by Mike Hughlett appeared on the Chicago Tribune website on January 11, 2009.) CHICAGO — As Congress convened last week, organized labor was looking at perhaps its best shot in ages at successfully pushing for sweeping changes in federal labor...
