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County wants say on CN-EJ&E merger
(The following story by Joseph Sjostrom appeared on the Chicago Tribune website on December 14.) CHICAGO — DuPage County Board Chairman Robert Schillerstrom has asked a federal railroad board for permission to participate in talks on Canadian National Railway Corp.'s...
Michigan town first for new railroad barricades
(The following story by Andrea King appeared at JournalGroup.com on December 13.) VAN BUREN, Mich. — Van Buren Township will be the first location in the United States to have retractable barricades at railroad crossings. The barricades or ‘delineators’ will rise from...
Fla. lawmakers question CSX rail deal
(The following story by Lindsay Peterson appeared on The Tampa Tribune website on December 13.) TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida lawmakers said Thursday that the state's $491 million agreement with CSX Transportation is not a done deal and that lawmakers will debate it...
Fla. legislators unhappy with freight-train reroute for Orlando commuter rail
(The following story by Aaron Deslatte appeared on the Orlando Sentinel website on December 14.) TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Two Lakeland lawmakers raised a stink Thursday about the deal to divert CSX Transportation freight trains away from downtown Orlando to bring commuter...
Crews clean up after BNSF train derails in Kan.
(The following report appeared on the Lawrence Journal-World website on December 14.) LAWRENCE, Kan. — Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway is trying to determine what caused six train cars to derail early Thursday on a side track in east Lawrence. The cars, which...
NS investigates Va. accident
(The Associated Press circulated the following on December 14.) ABILENE, Va. — Norfolk Southern says it is investigating a train accident in Charlotte County that spilled diesel fuel and coal, and injured a conductor. Officials say a coal train hit a container train...
CTA union threatens one-day shutdown
(The following story by Jon Hilkevitch and Richard Wronski appeared on the Chicago Tribune website on December 14. Rick Radek is a National Vice President of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen.) CHICAGO — Frustrated over the stalemate in funding mass...
NJ Transit sets ridership record in FY08’s first quarter
(The following report appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on December 13.) New Jersey Transit posted all-time-high ridership during fiscal year 2008's first quarter. System-wide ridership totaled 64.4 million trips, a 3.2 percent increase compared with the...
AAR: Rail freight traffic up during first week of December
(The Association of American Railroads issued the following on December 13.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Both total freight volume and carload freight were up on U.S. railroads during the first week of December in comparison with the corresponding week last year, the...
Rail museum’s only paid employee is never idle
(The following story by Christopher O’Donnel appeared on the Sarasota Herald-Tribune website on December 13.) WILLOW, Fla. — Most days, Glenn Miley carries out routine checks of the Florida Railroad's powerful diesel electric trains or lays new railroad. But on...
