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Hush-hush for the choo-choo
(The following article by Tina Shah was posted on the Arizona Republic website on June 23. Brother Tom Fooshee is a member of BLET Division 123 in Phoenix.) PHOENIX, Ariz. -- A federal regulation requiring trains to blow their whistles at every road crossing is...
View from train can be alarming
(The following article by Debra Lemoine was posted on the Baton Rouge Advocate website on June 22.) DENHAM SPRINGS, La. -- Law enforcement officers rode the rails Tuesday through Livingston Parish, giving dozens of drivers expensive lessons about how vehicles can...
MBTA rail still not up to on-time standard
(The following article by Lucas Wall was posted on the Boston Globe website on June 22.) BOSTON -- Two years after a private contractor took over running MBTA commuter rail service, more trains are arriving on time, but the contractor is still not meeting the required...
Trains won’t be whistling by Chicago’s quiet zones
(The following article by Virginia Groark was posted on the Chicago Tribune website on June 22.) CHICAGO -- The Chicago region is temporarily exempted from a new federal train whistle rule that goes into effect Friday, but officials are working to make sure that horns...
Amtrak workers wait for budget
(The following article by Jeanie Senior was posted on the Portland Tribune website on June 21.) PORTLAND, Ore. -- Dozens of federal jobs in the Portland area could be on the line if a move to cut funding to Amtrak succeeds, adding to a decline caused by downsizing in...
Panel won’t save Empire Builder
(The following article by Faith Bremner was posted on the Great Falls Tribune website on June 22.) WASHINGTON -- A House committee rebuffed Montana Rep. Dennis Rehberg's attempt Tuesday to save Amtrak's Empire Builder route from the budget ax next year. In a voice...
Budget endangers long Amtrak routes
(The following article by Edward Epstein was posted on the San Francisco Chronicle website on June 22.) WASHINGTON -- Such storied long-distance trains as the Coast Starlight and the California Zephyr would be permanently derailed if an Amtrak budget approved Tuesday...
Nevada asks court to stop Yucca Mountain rail plan
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on June 21.) LAS VEGAS -- Nevada's claiming "abuses of authority" and a "decide-first, analyze-later approach" are driving Energy Department plans to build a railroad to haul radioactive waste across the state to...
UP train derails in Colo.
(The Grand Junction Sentinel posted the following article on its website on June 22.) GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. -- Five cars on an eastbound Union Pacific freight train derailed Tuesday morning near Kremmling, about 118 miles west of Denver, halting almost every train...
Work in Progress
(The AFL-CIO circulated the following on June 20.) WORKERS CHOOSE IBT—Nearly 300 workers in seven recent elections voted for a voice at work with the Teamsters. In San Diego, 175 packaging department workers at the Union Tribune voted to join Local 432M of the Graphic...
