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CPR profit growth to slow
(The following story by Leonard Zehr appeared on the Globe and Mail website on October 30.) TORONTO — Profit growth in the fourth quarter at Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. could slow to 6 per cent, from 12.2 per cent year-to-date, writes UBS’ Fadi Chamoun, pegging the...
Opinion: The sorry state of railway safety in Canada
(The following story by Emile Therien appeared on the Globe and Mail website on October 28. Therien is former president of the Canada Safety Council.) TORONTO — Thursday's report by the Transportation Safety Board on the derailment of a CN Railway train that dumped...
BNSF has seen its share of accidents
(The following story by David Little appeared on the West Central Tribune website on October 30.) WILLMAR, Minn. — Railroad train derailments are inevitable, just like crashes on highways, according to a railroad industry observer. “As long as you have human beings...
Hundreds evacuated in Minn. following BNSF derailment
(The following story by Tom Cherveny appeared on the West Central Tribune website on October 30.) CLARA CITY, Minn. — Nearly 12 hours after being hurriedly evacuated from their homes in the pre-dawn darkness, residents in Clara City received the all clear to return....
CP Rail profit rises 33%
(Bloomberg News circulated the following story by Hugo Miller on October 30.) TORONTO — Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. said third-quarter profit rose 33 percent, buoyed by foreign-exchange gains on its long-term debt. The carrier said 2007 earnings would be at the...
Teamsters Disaster Relief assistance available for California
CLEVELAND, October 29 — The Teamsters Disaster Relief Fund is accepting applications for assistance from members in the state of California regarding wildfires that caused major damage in the following counties on October 21, 2007: Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San...
Locomotive buffs share their special trains of thought
(The following story by Bill Taylor appeared on the Toronto Star website on October 27.) TORONTO — Railways 101 ... F is for Front. Don't forget that. "It's important to be able to tell one end of a locomotive from the other," says John Dubreuil. "Especially ones with...
Sad Storrie: Spill from derailment has property owners battling with UP
(The following story by Greg Welter appeared on the Chico Enterprise-Record website on October 28.) STORRIE, Calif. — When they bought a small resort property in this Plumas County hamlet eight years ago, Loren and Rhonda Perkins looked forward to combining peace and...
At the controls of ‘16,000 horses’
(The following story by Candace Chase appeared on The Daily Inter Lake website on October 28.) KALISPELL, Mont. — K.C. Warner, an engineer with BNSF Railway, wasn’t named after Casey Jones — but she should have been. “I love running the train,” she said. “You’ve got...
Trespassers feel railroaded by UP
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Scott Sonner on October 29.) RENO, Nev. — Gabe Kennedy had never heard of the railroad police when a special agent for Union Pacific wrote him a $190 ticket for trespassing on a bridge university students...
