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Calif. regions battle over $2 billion in transportation funds
(The following story by Duane W. Gang appeared on The Press-Enterprise website on February 20.) LOS ANGELES — California Transportation Commission members urged Caltrans and two major railroads Tuesday to hammer out the details of a proposed rail bridge in Colton if...
Calif. counties, railroads at odds over rail funds
(The following story by Jeffrey L. Rabin appeared on the Los Angeles Times website on February 20.) LOS ANGELES — The Schwarzenegger administration collided head-on Tuesday with transportation officials from five Southern California counties over the governor's...
DOT: States can now apply for federal funding to expand passenger rail
(The U.S. Department of Transportation issued the following on February 19.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — For the first time ever, states will be directly eligible for federal funding to support intercity passenger rail service under a new grant program, U.S. Secretary of...
CP Rail declares 10% dividend increase
(The Canadian Pacific Railway issued the following on February 19.) CALGARY — The Board of Directors of Canadian Pacific Railway Limited today declared an increase of 10 per cent in CP's next quarterly dividend to twenty-four and three quarter cents ($0.2475) Canadian...
Amtrak outlines security features
(The following story by Paul Nussbaum appeared on the Philadelphia Inquirer website on February 20.) PHILADELPHIA — Amtrak's new 15-member security teams, heavily armed and "exceedingly polite," will show up in force this week at Northeast rail stations, trying to...
At 97, retired BLET member recalls working the rails
(The following story by Beth Foley appeared on The Palestine Herald website on February 18. W.L. Broughton is a retired member of BLET Division 194 in Houston, Texas.) PALENSTINE, Texas — For 97-year-old W.L. Broughton, horses of one kind or another have been a big...
Pair picks rolling Amtrak train for site of wedding
(The Associated Press circulated the following on February 17.) PONTIAC, Mich. — Lynn Kuczajda says she always thought trains were romantic. So it shouldn't be a surprise that she chose a train for her Saturday wedding. The Oakland Press of Pontiac reports 48-year-old...
Rail-truck transload facility taking shape
(The following story by Dan Daly appeared on the Rapid City Journal website on February 19.) BOX ELDER, S.D. — Construction is under way on a facility just east of Box Elder where lumber, ethanol, gravel, wood chips and general freight could be transferred between...
Officials say work on rail bottleneck will reduce I-81 congestion
(The Associated Press circulated the following on February 18.) ROANOKE, Va. — State and railroad officials say improvements to a rail bottleneck in western Virginia will help cut truck traffic on Interstate 81. Crews are beginning work this month on the project...
Ontario passenger trains disrupted by CN derailment
(Bloomberg News circulated the following story by Sean B. Pasternak and Hugo Miller on February 19.) TORONTO — VIA Rail Canada and GO Transit delayed and rerouted some passenger trains in Ontario after a Canadian National Railway Co. freight train derailed yesterday...
