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Bush administration fights Amtrak funding
(The following article by Jennifer A. Dlouhy was posted on the Albany Times-Union website on February 28.) WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration on Tuesday blasted a plan by a group of rail-riding senators to overhaul Amtrak and give the passenger railroad an annual...
Lautenberg seeks $19B for Amtrak, $400M for tunnel safety
(The following article by Herb Jackson was posted on the Bergen Record website on February 28.) WASHINGTON -- Railroads dominated Sen. Frank Lautenberg’s return from a weeklong congressional recess Tuesday as he presided at a hearing on providing $19 billion for...
Computer glitches causing delays for NJ Transit
(The following article by David A. Michaels was posted on the Bergen Record website on February 27.) BERGEN, N.J. -- NJ Transit’s newest locomotive caused a record number of delays for North Jersey commuters last year because technical problems forced the engines to...
Rail work to disrupt LIRR for months
(Newsday posted the following article by John Valenti on its website on February 26.) NEW YORK -- Track work and construction programs, which began Monday on the Long Island Rail Road could affect some branches for months, LIRR announced. Riders on some branches...
Feds reject loan for railroad’s coal line
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on February 27.) WASHINGTON -- The Federal Railroad Administration has denied a $2.3 billion federal loan for the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad’s planned coal train project. The DM&E wanted to add track...
U.S. denies loan for Powder River rail project
(Reuters circulated the following article on February 26.) WASHINGTON -- The U.S. government denied a $2.3 billion loan to the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern (DM&E) freight railroad on Monday, saying it posed an unacceptably high risk to taxpayers. The railroad, a...
DM&E loan request denied
(The following article by Melanie Brandert was posted on the Sioux Falls Argus Leader website on February 27.) SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- Dakota Minnesota & Eastern Railroad is headed back to the drawing board after a government agency on Monday denied it a $2.3 billion...
Feds reject railroad loan
(The following article by Dustin Bleizeffer was posted on the Casper Star-Tribune website on February 27.) GILLETTE, Wyo. -- Wyoming coal producers and their customers may not have a third suitor for rail service. The Federal Railroad Administration said Monday that...
Railroad’s dreams clash with economic realities
(The following article by Peter Harriman was posted on the Sioux Falls Argus Leader website on February 27.) SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- In the end, it was about vision. Dakota Minnesota & Eastern President and CEO Kevin Schieffer saw a future state-of-the-art railroad...
FRA Administrator denies DM&E Powder River Basin loan application citing unacceptable risk to federal taxpayers
(The Federal Railroad Administration issued the following news release on February 26.) WASHINGTON -- Federal Railroad Administrator Joseph H. Boardman today denied a $2.3 billion Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing (RRIF) loan application from the...
