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Railroad Retirement Board appeals procedure
(The U.S. Railroad Retirement Board issued the following on December 2.) CHICAGO — Persons claiming retirement, disability, survivor, unemployment or sickness benefits from the Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) have the right to appeal unfavorable determinations on...
Year 2009 Railroad Retirement and Unemployment Insurance Taxes
(The U.S. Railroad Retirement Board issued the following on December 3.) CHICAGO — The amounts of compensation subject to railroad retirement tier I and tier II payroll taxes will increase in 2009. However, the tier I tax rate on employees and employers remains...
Santa, elves arrive Monday by KCS train in Godfrey
(The following story by Terry Hillig appeared on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch website on December 10.) ST. LOUIS, Mo. — Santa Claus and his elves are headed for Godfrey on the Kansas City Southern Railway’s Holiday Express. The train is scheduled to arrive at the Pearl...
Chicago factory workers end sit-in
(The following story by Robert Mitchum appeared on the Los Angeles Times website on December 11.) CHICAGO — Laid-off workers at Republic Windows & Doors agreed to leave the closed Illinois plant they've been occupying in protest for six days, accepting a deal...
Official: Alternate route must be good for CSX
(The following story by Tom Palmer appeared on the Lakeland Ledger website on December 10.) LAKELAND, Fla. — Any plan that diverts freight trains from downtown Lakeland won't work unless it makes business sense for CSX, a state transportation official said Wednesday....
After floods, costs pile up for Tillamook railroad
(The following story by Mateusz Perkowski on the Daily Astorian website on December 9.) TILLAMOOK, Ore. — The future of the Port of Tillamook Bay Raiload is as murky now as it was exactly one year ago, when floodwaters and fallen trees knocked the line out of...
Canadian National, Mundelein reach agreement on EJ&E
(The following story by Diana Newton appeared on the Pioneer Press website on December 11.) CHICAGO — Canadian National Railway and Mundelein have reached agreement on ways to lessen the impact if CN goes through with plans to purchase the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern...
New York senator calls on Amtrak to expand service
(The following appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on December 10.) It’s been less than two weeks since Amtrak appointed Joseph Boardman interim president and chief executive officer, but one New York senator already is urging him to add service in the...
Opinion: Railroads a fast track away from oil dependency
(The following column by Brian O'Neill appeared on the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette website on December 11.) PITTSBURGH, Pa. — If America borrows hundreds of billions of dollars to create jobs but doesn't change its core problem -- a transportation system that rests on the...
Opinion: Remember Conrail? Think Concar
(The following column by Jonathan Broder appeared on the Philadelphia Inquirer website on December 11.) PHILADELPHIA — On April 1, 1976, Consolidated Rail Corp. - Conrail - came into existence. Born out of the once unthinkable bankruptcies of most of the Northeastern...
