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Freight railroads seek to allow risk sharing as condition for transport
(The Association of American Railroads issued the following on July 22.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Calling the safety of the American public of paramount importance, the nation's freight railroads today urged the country's shippers of highly hazardous materials or toxic...
Report crucial to EJ&E purchase plan is expected today
(The following story by Richard Wronski appeared on the Chicago Tribune website on July 24.) CHICAGO — Scores of Chicago-area communities Friday could learn the potential environmental impact of a controversial plan to reroute freight traffic around the city and...
SEPTA buying eight NJ Transit cars
(The following story by Paul Nussbaum appeared on the Philadelphia Inquirer website on July 25.) PHILADELPHIA — Rebuffed in its effort to lease old NJ Transit railcars, SEPTA officials yesterday agreed to buy eight railcars from NJT to help ease overcrowding on...
About the Heartland Corridor project
(The following story appeared on The Herald-Dispatch website on July 25.) HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — WHAT IS IT? The Heartland Corridor project involves improvements in railways between the Virginia coast and Columbus, Ohio, so that trains can carry more goods. Twenty-eight...
BNSF disputes pollution ‘crisis’
(The following appeared on the Inland News Today website on July 24.) SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — Officials of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad are disputing claims that nothing is being done about the diesel pollution emanating from their West Side rail yards....
Balloons mimic train pollution in protest
(The following story by Andrew Edwards appeared on the San Bernardino County Sun website on July 24.) SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — A few dozen people released black balloons into the sky to simulate air pollution Thursday morning during a protest against diesel emissions...
BNSF CEO sees global coal demand high for next several years
(Reuters circulated the following on July 24.) CHICAGO — Global demand for coal should remain high for the next few years, the top executive of No. 2 U.S. railroad Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. said on Thursday. Chief Executive Matt Rose told Reuters in a...
Greenpeace: Trains carrying chemicals imperil national political conventions
(The following story by Jeffrey Leib and Felisa Cardona appeared on The Denver Post website on July 25.) DENVER — The environmental group Greenpeace warned Thursday that rail shipments of hazardous chemicals pose dangers to the national political conventions because...
AAR: Grain, coal lead way in up week for rail freight traffic
(The Association of American Railroads issued the following on July 24.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Thanks to sharp increases in loadings of coal and grain, freight traffic on the nation's railroads was up during the week ended July 19 in comparison with the corresponding...
Railroads post solid 2Q profits despite floods
(The Associated Press circulated the following on July 24.) NEW YORK— Despite rapidly accelerating fuel costs and Midwest floods putting a damper on profits, the nation's two largest railroad's second-quarter profits were boosted by demand for farm products, coal and...
