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AAR: Rail freight traffic off as floods impact midwest service
(The Association of American Railroads issued the following on June 20.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — At least partly because of floods in the Midwest, rail freight traffic on U.S. railroads was off during the week ended June 14 in comparison with the corresponding week last...
Benefit rate increase for railroad unemployment and sickness benefits
(The U.S. Railroad Retirement Board issued the following on June 2.) CHICAGO — The maximum daily benefit rate payable for claims under the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act increases to $61 from $59 in the new benefit year, which begins July 1, 2008. Benefits are...
Ohio museum celebrates America’s railroads
(The following story by David Patch appeared on the Toledo Blade website on June 20.) BELLEVUE, Ohio — When it opened 32 years ago, the Mad River & NKP Railroad Museum had little more than a Wheeling & Lake Erie caboose and a 44-ton switching locomotive. But since its...
Riders feel pinch as Metra packs ’em in
(The following story by Josh Noel, Courtney Flynn and Richard Wronski appeared on the Chicago Tribune website on June 19.) CHICAGO — It begins with a trickle, when the 8:06 a.m. Metra express rolls out of Aurora half-full—nine cars headed for Union Station. Minutes...
Plan seeks to optimize traffic flow to new CSX terminal
(The following story by Jennifer Feehan appeared on the Toledo Blade website on June 20.) BOWLING GREEN, Ohio — He doesn't know how much or how soon, but Wood County Engineer Ray Huber is certain the CSX Transportation rail terminal planned just west of North...
Opinion: Amtrak as an economic locomotive
(The following editorial by James T. Brett appeared on the New Hampshire Business Review website on June 20. Mr. Brett is president of the regional business organization the New England Council.) MANCHESTER, N.H. — Americans are struggling to handle the unprecedented...
Railroad stocks getting soggy
(The following story by Christopher Barker appeared on the Motley Fool website on June 19.) NEW YORK — The images from the Midwest of livestock gathering on rooftops and submerged landscapes serve as a powerful reminder of the collective heartache this event has...
4 CSX cars derail, hit Pa. building; no injuries
(The Associated Press circulated the following on June 19.) JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — Four empty coal cars from a CSX train derailed in Johnstown, damaging a business and destroying a pickup truck, but no one was injured, officials said. Freight cars from the train headed from...
Man dies after UP train hits his road grader
(The following story appeared on the Greeley Tribune website on June 20.) GREELEY, Colo. — A Weld County road grader operator was killed when his maintainer and a train collided at about 1:30 p.m. south of Fort Lupton. Doug Wigham, 30, of Greeley, was airlifed to...
2005 Metrolink crash called a `statement’
(The following appeared on the Long Beach Press-Telegram website on June 19.) LOS ANGELES — A man who parked his Jeep Cherokee on railroad tracks, resulting in a Metrolink derailment that killed 11 people and injured more than 180 others, was making a "statement" and...
