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BLET engineer’s career touched by death
(The following story by Sarah Gordon appeared on the North County Times website on May 3. Michael D. Guyer is a member of BLET Division 20 in Los Angeles.) TEMECULA, Calif. — From high in his train, driving between San Diego and Los Angeles, Amtrak Engineer Mike Guyer...
Transport Canada to help fund upgrades to 82 crossings
(The following appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on May 1.) Earlier this week, Transport Canada announced plans to provide more than $7.1 million to help fund upgrades to 82 grade crossings nationwide. Under the agency's Grade Crossing Improvement...
Amtrak’s Coast Starlight to run normally next week after months of slide-damage repairs
(The Associated Press circulates the following on May 1.) SEATTLE — For some Amtrak passengers, taking the long-distance Coast Starlight train along the West Coast will no longer mean having to take a bus. Amtrak announced its Coast Starlight route between Seattle and...
Canadian farmers say rail rates out of line
(The following story by Neil Scott appeared on the Star-Phoenix website on May 2.) REGINA — Angered farm leaders are demanding a review of proposed increases in grain transportation rates. Terry Boehm, a Saskatchewan grain farmer and vice-president of the National...
New port in B.C. may pose threat
(The following story by Kristen Millares Young appeared on the Seattle Post-Intelligencer website on April 30.) SEATTLE — Up north in the B.C. Prince Rupert Port Authority, a new business model is blooming. Rather than sending goods through where people are, shipping...
Forum explores Amtrak’s Downeaster funding options
(The following story by Robert M. Cook appeared on the Foster’s Daily Democrat website on May 1.) DOVER, N.H. — Regional planners, municipal and railroad officials kicked around several ideas Wednesday to help the Downeaster train develop new revenue streams to make...
KCS sued for worker’s leg amputation
(The following story by David Yates appeared on the Southeast Texas Record website on May 1.) BEAUMONT, Texas — A railroad worker lost his leg last month while aiding in switching operations. Now, James W. Murray wants compensation for his injury and has filed suit...
Antiwar protesters hope to shut down Port of Oakland
(The following appeared on the San Jose Mercury News website on May 1.) OAKLAND, Calif. — A group of protesters have gathered at the Port of Oakland today in an effort to convince rail workers to join an anti-war port shutdown. Picket lines were set up at work...
Business diversity buoys UP
(The following story by Joe Ruff appeared on the Omaha World-Herald website on May 1.) OMAHA, Neb. — Union Pacific ships coal, automobiles, grain, frozen foods, lumber, chemicals, tennis shoes, televisions and toys, a broad range of goods that is helping it weather...
CSX plans Ohio terminals to handle double-stacked trains
(The Associated Press circulated the following on May 1.) COLUMBUS, Ohio — CSX Corporation says it will spend $300 million on upgrades that would allow trains with double-stacked cars to run from the East Coast to the Midwest. For the effort to go forward, the federal...
