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Teamsters offer Disaster Relief assistance in Kentucky
CLEVELAND, March 14 — The Teamsters Disaster Relief Fund is accepting applications for assistance from members in the state of Kentucky after severe storms, tornadoes, straight-line winds and flooding caused major damage on February 5-6, 2008. Kentucky residents in...
Fortress seeks STB approval to merge RailAmerica, Florida East Coast Railway
(The following appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on March 13.) Fortress Investment Group L.L.C. is seeking Surface Transportation Board (STB) approval to merge RailAmerica Inc. and Florida East Coast Railway (FECR). Under an "Exemption for a Transaction...
Georgia Senate group pushes for rail system
(The following story by Sarah Fay Campbell appeared on The Times-Herald website on March 14.) NEWNAN, Ga. — There will be commuter rail service coming to Georgia. That is, if members of the Senate Transportation Committee have their way. Sen. Doug Stoner, chairman of...
Resurrecting the southern Montana rail line
(The following story by Richard Hanners appeared on the Whitefish Pilot website on March 13.) WHITEFISH, Mont. — With gasoline prices expected to top $4 this summer and concerns growing about climate change and "carbon footprints," there has been a renewed interest in...
Bomb squad disposes of old railroad explosives
(The Associated Press circulated the following on March 13.) POWNAL, Vt. — The Vermont State Police bomb squad helped a Pownal landowner dispose of the equivalent of six sticks of dynamite that were discovered inside an antique emergency kit once used by railroad...
Leaking BNSF car spills into Mississippi
(The following story by Chad Richardson appeared on The Hastings Star-Gazette website on March 13.) HASTINGS, Minn. — The environmental impact of last week’s tank car leak near Prescott is still being assessed by officials from both the state of Minnesota and BNSF...
Opinion: CSX a good investment
(The following column by Paul Whitfield appeared on the Investor's Business Daily website on March 13.) Trolling for a high dividend yield isn't always the best strategy for an income investor. In the long run, the strength of a company, its sector and the dividend...
Amtrak service resumes after fatality
(United Press International circulated the following on March 13.) PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Amtrak resumed service on the Providence, R.I., line Thursday after an investigation concerning a train that struck three people, killing one, Amtrak said. The Acela train 2154...
AAR: Rail freight traffic down in first week of March
(The Association of American Railroads issued the following on March 13.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Freight traffic on U.S. railroads was off during the first week of March in comparison with the corresponding week last year, the Association of American Railroads (AAR)...
Vandalism blamed for BNSF derailment
(The following story by Alexis Hunt appeared at KHQA.com on March 13.) QUINCY, Ill. — It was about two miles west of Golden that a Burlington Northern Santa Fe train car jumped the tracks. The train was heading from Galesburg to Memphis Tennessee when someone placed...
