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Crews finish rail tracks, restoring normal routes
(The Sacramento Bee posted the following article on its website on April 1.) SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Union Pacific crews finished work early Saturday morning on the second of two rail tracks on a trestle over the American River. About 1,400 feet of wooden trestle on the...
NJ Transit chief’s legacy: Advancing the tunnel
(The following article by David A. Michaels was posted on the Bergen Record website on April 2.) BERGEN, N.J. -- It was one of those hurly-burly evenings in New York’s Penn Station. Instead of the controlled chaos that flows from footsteps and train movements, it was...
CSX CEO received $16.8 million in 2006
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on March 30.) JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Michael J. Ward, CSX Corp.’s chairman, president and chief executive, received 2006 compensation the railroad operator valued at $16.8 million, according to a company proxy...
Bill would impose tax hike on BNSF if fees keep rising
(The following article by Gwen Florio was posted on the Great Falls Tribune website on March 31.) HELENA, Mont. -- The only way to deal with the high shipping rates that BNSF charges Montana grain growers is by raising property taxes on the railroad, Rep. Julie...
Railroad settles age discrimination suit
(The following article by Randolph Heaster was posted on the Kansas City Star website on March 31.) KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- BNSF Railway Co. has settled an age discrimination suit with a federal agency, agreeing to pay $800,000 to a group of current and former employees....
Amtrak’s Ohio-N.Y. train gets later departure
(The following article by David Patch was posted on the Toledo Blade website on April 2.) TOLEDO, Ohio -- Train travelers headed from Toledo to New York will be scheduled to depart even deeper into the wee hours than they’re accustomed to, beginning tomorrow morning....
Trains pose rolling risk in Buffalo
(The following article by Sandra Tan and John F. Bonfatti was posted on the Buffalo News website on April 1.) BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Trains can be dangerous — especially here. Each year for the past decade, more train accidents have occurred in Erie County than any other...
Rail lines in Tucson could be terror bait
(The following article by Enric Volante was posted on the Arizona Daily Star website on April 1.) TUCSON, Ariz. -- More than 1,600 rail tanker loads of poisonous gas vulnerable to terrorist attack roll through Tucson in a year, potentially threatening most of the...
Carload, intermodal volume both down on U.S. railroads
(The Association of American Railroads issued the following on March 29.) WASHINGTON -- Both intermodal and carload freight were down on U.S. railroads during the week ended March 24 in comparison with the corresponding week last year, the Association of American...
STB to hold April 19 oral argument in “New England Transrail” case
(The Surface Transportation Board issued the following news release on March 29.) WASHINGTON -- The Surface Transportation Board has announced that the agency will hold an April 19, 2007 oral argument in the case entitled New England Transrail, LLC d/b/a Wilmington &...
