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Railroads reach tentative deal with seven unions
(The following article by Gregory Richards was posted on the Virginian-Pilot website on March 1.) NORFOLK, Va. -- Seven rail unions representing 46 percent of rail employees reached a tentative labor agreement Wednesday with the country’s major freight railroads,...
Railroads reach tentative deal with unions
(The Associated Press circulated the following article by Alan Zibel on March 1.) WASHINGTON -- After more than two years of negotiations, U.S. freight railroads on Wednesday reached a new labor agreement with unions representing about 66,000 workers. The tentative...
Railroad stocks sidetracked
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on February 27.) WASHINGTON -- Shares of railroad operators traded lower on Tuesday amid mixed news about future coal freight and a lackluster day on Wall Street. Shares of Union Pacific Corp. fell $3.73, or 3.7...
Senator’s railway lobby link may have helped derail loan
(The following article by Elizabeth Williamson was posted on the Washington Post website on February 28.) WASHINGTON -- The federal government killed a $2.3 billion railway loan after opponents attacked Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), because he was the railway’s lobbyist...
‘This line will be built’
(The Associated Press circulated the following article by Josh Funk on February 27.) OMAHA, Neb. -- Hundreds of millions of tons of coal are hauled from northeast Wyoming each year as fast as the nation’s two largest railroads can carry it away. But Union Pacific and...
Defects found in 170 CSX rail cars
(The Florida Times-Union posted the following article by Timothy J. Gibbons on its website on February 28.) JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The Federal Railroad Administration found defects in about 170 CSX railroad cars at the company’s Baldwin Yard in Jacksonville during a...
Amtrak route is bedeviled by delays
(The following article by David Patch was posted on the Toledo Blade website on February 28.) TOLEDO, Ohio -- Schedule-keeping on Amtrak’s passenger trains between Toledo and Chicago, hardly exemplary during the best of times, has taken a beating in recent weeks...
Dependent on freight railroads, Amtrak can’t run trains on time
(The Associated Press circulated the following article by Sarah Karush on February 28.) WASHINGTON -- The Capitol Limited, an Amtrak train from Chicago, is scheduled to arrive in Washington every day at 1:30 p.m. But frequent rider Edda Ramos knows better than to make...
Bush may veto 9/11 security plan over airport screener unions, contains rail security provisions
(Bloomberg News circulated the following article by William Roberts on February 27.) WASHINGTON -- President George W. Bush may veto legislation to adopt many of the remaining recommendations of the Sept. 11 Commission unless Senate Democrats drop a plan to allow...
Senate takes up transit security bill
(The following article by Herb Jackson was posted on the Bergen Record website on February 27.) WASHINGTON -- The Senate begins debating a security bill today that New Jersey's Frank Lautenberg hopes will include $400 million for safety improvements to tunnels under...
