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Railroad Retirement Board Informational Conferences
CHICAGO — The following are informational conferences conducted by the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board. All informational conference registrations begin at 8:00 a.m., with the programs beginning promptly at 8:30 a.m. and ending at 12:30 p.m. OCTOBER Friday, October 3...
Editorial: Chutzpah hits the rails
(The following editorial appeared on the Boston Herald website on September 13.) BOSTON — Around 4 a.m. two years ago one Brian Hopkins, 24, apparently tried to get into one of Amtrak’s Acela trains parked at South Station - closed at that hour - but could not. He...
Faster Amtrak trains once sidelined, now gaining support
(The following story by Scott Richardson appeared on the Bloomington Pantagraph website on September 14.) BLOOMINGTON, Ill. — Cutting minutes from a train ride between Normal and Chicago is taking years. In 2002, news reporters joined government officials on an Amtrak...
CSX to pay D.C. more than $650,000 for 2007 coal train derailment
(The following story by Michael Neibauer appeared on the D.C. Examiner website on September 12.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rail company CSX Corp. has agreed to pay the D.C. government more than $650,000 in response to a train derailment in November that sent six freight cars...
NS to research battery-powered locomotives
(The following appeared on The Virginian-Pilot website on September 13.) NORFOLK, Va. — Norfolk Southern Corp. will research battery-powered electric locomotives with funding from a new $50,000 grant, the Federal Railroad Administration announced Friday. The...
Cleanup plan for San Bernardino’s BNSF rail yard not fast enough, neighbors say
(The following story by David Danelski appeared on The Press-Enterprise website on September 12.) SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — Several residents who live near the bustling BNSF Railway yard in San Bernardino said Friday that a diesel pollution cleanup plan for the yard...
BNSF sets PRB coal volume record in August
(The following appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on September 12.) Last month, BNSF Railway Co. loaded a record 24 million tons of coal in the Powder River Basin (PRB), breaking the previous monthly record of 23.9 million tons set in March. Daily PRB...
UP coals trains help to power Iowa
(The following story by Tim Johnson appeared on the Daily Nonpareil website on September 14.) COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa — Union Pacific Railroad lights up Iowa - indirectly. The railroad delivers millions of tons of the coal that is used to generate almost 80 percent of...
Freight railroads ready for Hurricane Ike
(The Associated Press circulated the following on September 12.) NEW YORK — Rail traffic came to a halt Friday across portions of the Gulf Coast, as several of the nation's largest freight railroads prepare for Hurricane Ike to reach land. Union Pacific Corp.,...
Rails close ahead of Hurricane Ike
(The following story by John D. Boyd appeared at TrafficWorld.com on September 12.) Texas-based BNSF Railway, along with Union Pacific Railroad and Kansas City Southern shut down freight operations in the path of Hurricane Ike, the second time this month that a major...
