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Fatigue study may help put train hazards to rest
(The following article by Dan Weikel was posted on the Los Angeles Times website on December 3. Thomas A. Pontolillo is the BLET’s Director of Regulatory Affairs.) LOS ANGELES -- New federal research shows that computer modeling can reliably predict when members of...
Rail freight traffic off during Thanksgiving week
(The Association of American Railroads issued the following on November 30.) WASHINGTON -- Freight traffic on U.S. railroads was off slightly during the week ended November 25 in comparison with the corresponding week last year, the Association of American Railroads...
Rail freight traffic off during Thanksgiving week
(The Association of American Railroads issued the following on November 30.) WASHINGTON -- Freight traffic on U.S. railroads was off slightly during the week ended November 25 in comparison with the corresponding week last year, the Association of American Railroads...
CN Board of Directors approves one-year contract extension for company’s president and CEO
(Canadian National Railway issued the following news release on November 30.) MONTREAL, QUEBEC -- David G. A. McLean, chairman of the board of directors of CN, announced today that the company's directors and E. Hunter Harrison, president and chief executive officer...
CN Board of Directors approves one-year contract extension for company’s president and CEO
(Canadian National Railway issued the following news release on November 30.) MONTREAL, QUEBEC -- David G. A. McLean, chairman of the board of directors of CN, announced today that the company's directors and E. Hunter Harrison, president and chief executive officer...
Amtrak struggles to compete on cost
(The following article by Summer Harlow was posted on the News Journal website on December 1.) WILMINGTON, Del. -- For the past 11 years, on the first weekend of December, Debra Panicucci has taken the train from Wilmington to New York for four days of shopping and...
Amtrak struggles to compete on cost
(The following article by Summer Harlow was posted on the News Journal website on December 1.) WILMINGTON, Del. -- For the past 11 years, on the first weekend of December, Debra Panicucci has taken the train from Wilmington to New York for four days of shopping and...
Investigation faults CSX for Va. commuter train derailment
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on December 1.) WASHINGTON -- A worn, chipped switch that wasn't replaced by CSX Corp. likely caused January's derailment of a Virginia Railway Express commuter train, federal investigators have determined. The...
Investigation faults CSX for Va. commuter train derailment
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on December 1.) WASHINGTON -- A worn, chipped switch that wasn't replaced by CSX Corp. likely caused January's derailment of a Virginia Railway Express commuter train, federal investigators have determined. The...
Transportation secretary coming to Minnesota to discuss DM&E
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on December 1.) WASHINGTON -- Transportation Secretary Mary Peters will travel to Minnesota next week for meetings on the expansion plan by the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad, according to Sen. Norm Coleman,...
