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Ag groups urge end to railroad antitrust exemptions
(The following appeared on the Delta Farm Press website on January 5.) For much of 2008, corn, soybean and wheat farmers were on the receiving end of a continuous barrage of bad publicity from a campaign that appeared to be mounted by the Grocery Manufacturers...
Rail cleanup rolls after CSX derailment in Fla. panhandle
(The following story by Louis Cooper appeared on the Pensacola News Journal website on January 6.) PENSACOLA, Fla. — Efforts continued Monday to mop up 23,000 gallons of petroleum that leaked from a damaged tanker car in a CSX train derailment near Milton on Saturday....
NS announces fourth-quarter 2008 conference call
(Norfolk Southern issued the following on January 6.) NORFOLK, Va. — Norfolk Southern Corp. (NYSE: NSC) will hold its fourth-quarter 2008 analyst meeting at 9 a.m. EST on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2009, at JPMorgan Chase & Co., 270 Park Ave., New York, 11th floor. Norfolk...
CN decries length of Barrington complaint
(The following appeared on the Daily Herald website on January 7.) CHICAGO — Barrington's request to federal regulators to delay a merger between CN and the EJ&E railroads is just too long, lawyers for the railway say. CN Tuesday asked the U.S. Surface Transportation...
Will County asks for timeout on EJ&E
(The following story by Guy Tridgell appeared on the Southtown Star website on January 7.) CHICAGO — The legal opposition to the Canadian National Railway's plans for the EJ&E Railroad continues to grow. Will County has filed paperwork with the federal Surface...
SEPTA considering quiet car program on some trains
(The following story by Christina Kristofic appeared on the Burlington County Times website on January 7.) PHILADELPHIA — A SEPTA representative spoke on his cell phone about the authority’s plans to test a quiet car program on the R5 to Lansdale and Doylestown as he...
Bosses of texting engineer are accused in Metrolink crash
(The following story by Rebecca Cathcart appeared on the New York Times website on January 6.) LOS ANGELES — Supervisors of an engineer who had been text-messaging when he drove a commuter train into an oncoming freight here in September had been warned that he often...
Amtrak conductor will ride to inauguration
(The following story by Joelle Farrell appeared on the Philadelphia Inquirer website on January 7.) PHILADELPHIA — Gregg Weaver says it has been an honor to take U.S. Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. to work every day in Washington. Now, it is the vice president-elect's turn...
Michigan Teamster to be among 40 on Obama train trip
(The following story by Kathleen Gray appeared on the Detroit Free Press website on January 7.) DETROIT — Roy Gross knows the 120-mile train ride from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C., on Jan. 17 will be so much more than just a way to get to the presidential...
Security of Obama train trip worries some
(The following story by Frank James appeared at SwampPolitics.com on January 7.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — President-elect Barack Obama's planned pre-inauguration train trip to Washington via Philadelphia, Wilmington, Del. and Baltimore has stoked concerns among some that he...
