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For 2 weekends, Amtrak using Grand Central for upstate travel
(The Associated Press circulated the following on October 15.) NEW YORK — Amtrak trains heading to and from upstate will operate out of Grand Central Terminal instead of New York Penn Station for the next two weekends, to accommodate Metro-North Railroad track work....
Railroad cars from ’06 Bullitt derailment to stay put, for now
(The following appeared on The Louisville Courier-Journal website on October 15.) LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Railroad cars at the site of the 2006 CSX train derailment in Bullitt County are being dismantled but not removed, Zoneton Fire Chief Rob Orkies said yesterday. Work on...
Iowa Interstate Railroad wants to raise $75K for flood relief
(The following story by Dustin Lemmon appeared on the Quad City Times website on October 14.) DAVENPORT, Iowa — Henry Posner first entered the railroad business in 1966 at a time the industry was struggling and it didn’t look like trains would play much of a role in...
Backers push bullet-train measure as a dramatic change in California transportation
(The following story by Eric Bailey appeared on the Los Angeles Times website on October 14.) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — For a quarter century it has been a California dream on one drafting board or another -- a bullet train system so novel, environmentally friendly and...
Auto industry needs an efficient border with Mexico
(The following story by David Hendricks appeared on the San Antonio Express-News website on October 14.) SAN ANTONIO, Texas — In the auto manufacturing corridor stretching from Detroit to Puebla, Mexico, the region least positioned for the future is the...
Metrolink tracks threatened by wildfire reopen
(The Associated Press circulated the following on October 14.) LOS ANGELES — A section of track that was threatened by a wildfire near Porter Ranch has reopened, allowing commuter train service to resume. Metrolink spokesman Francisco Oaxaca says the track from...
Change To Win unions spend $20M on elections
(The following by Marc Ambinder appeared on The Atlantic website on October 14.) The Change to Win labor federation has amped up its political activity this cycle, spending more than $20 million -- mostly under the radar -- to help elect Democrats in battleground...
Court hears differing views of attack on Amtrak engineer
(The following appeared on the Sacramento Bee website on October 14.) WOODLAND, Calif. — Prosecution and defense lawyers offered very different versions of events the night in April 2007 when an Amtrak train engineer was severely beaten by a group of teenagers in West...
CSX 3Q net profit falls, ’08 outlook moderates
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Samantha Bomkamp on October 14.) NEW YORK — CSX Corp. said Tuesday its third-quarter earnings fell 6 percent, but still beat Wall Street's expectations. The freight railroad operator also said it's now more...
CSX profit falls 6.1% on freight drop
(Bloomberg News circulated the following story by Angela Greiling Keane on October 14.) NEW YORK — CSX Corp.'s third-quarter profit fell 6.1 percent after a tax gain a year earlier and a drop in freight carried by the third-largest U.S. railroad in a slumping U.S....
