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Railroads accused of price-fixing
(Reuters circulated the following story by Martha Graybow on May 14.) NEW YORK — Five U.S. railroads were accused in a federal lawsuit on Monday of conspiring to fix prices on rail fuel surcharges to customers on freight shipments. The lawsuit names CSX Corp., Norfolk...
DHS establishes rail test center for radiation detection
(The U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued the following on May 14.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will soon begin conducting multiple projects in the Port of Tacoma, Wash., to evaluate technology and concepts of operations...
CP maintenance workers to walk off job
(The following story by Chris Sorensen appeared on The Star website on May 15.) TORONTO — Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. is bracing for a possible strike by 3,200 track maintenance workers that's set to begin tonight, but analysts don't appear too concerned about the...
CP Rail track staff balks at more travel
(The following story by Brent Jang appeared on the Globe and Mail website on May 15.) TORONTO — Rail maintenance workers who last clashed with Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. in 1995 over job security are now trying to defend their spare time away from the tracks. A...
2 SEPTA trains crash in tunnel; 35 hurt
(The following story by Rita Giordano appeared on the Philadelphia Inquirer website on May 15.) PHILADELPHIA — Two SEPTA Regional Rail trains crashed during last night's rush hour in the tunnel shortly after leaving Market East Station, resulting in dozens of people...
YouTube video shows how to sabotage a train
(The following story by Jorge Barrera appeared on the Cnews.Canoe.Ca website on May 15.) OTTAWA — An Internet how-to video on sabotaging railway lines in support of Native land claims has drawn the attention of the RCMP and triggered investigations by the country's...
Lawsuit alleges five major freight railroads engaged in price-fixing conspiracy
(The law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges LLP issued the following on May 14.) NEWARK, N.J. — A lawsuit seeking class action status has been filed today alleging a price-fixing conspiracy by the five major U.S.-based railroad freight haulers: CSX...
In the blood: A day on the rails with an MRL crew
(The following story by Linda Halstead-Acharya appeared on the Billings Gazette website on May 13. Doug Hedges and Steve Miller are members of BLET Division 232 in Laurel, Mont.) BILLINGS, Mont. — When the train rolled out of Laurel, hauling 105 carloads of corn,...
Aging work force, surge in business challenge Montana’s railroads
(The following story by Linda Halstead-Acharya appeared on the Billings Gazette website on May 13. Steve Miller is a member of BLET Division 232 in Laurel, Mont.) Steve Miller is 52 and beginning to think about the end of the line. A career railroader, the Montana...
Opinion: Railroad customers support proposed federal legislation
(The following column by Eric Aasmundstad, Robert Carlson, Steve Strege, Dan Wogsland and Neal Fisher appeared on The Forum website on May 14. Aasmundstad is president of the N.D. Farm Bureau; Carlson is president of the N.D. Farmers Union; Strege is executive vice...
