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Derailment settlement filed in Graniteville derailment
(The following story by Jacob Jordan was circulated by the Associated Press on May 25.) COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Railroad owner Norfolk Southern would pay a family of five that was evacuated for nearly two weeks during one of the nation's deadliest chemical spills at least...
Work in Progress
(The AFL-CIO issued the following article on May 23.) GW INSTRUCTORS VOTE SEIU—Some 1,200 adjunct and part-time faculty members at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., won representation with SEIU Local 500 after challenged ballots from an October 2004...
Teamsters picket L.A. Coke plants
(The following article by Nancy Cleeland and Erica Williams was posted on the Los Angeles Times website on May 24.) Teamster drivers, packers and warehouse workers walked picket lines at all seven Coca- Cola Enterprises Inc. bottling plants in the L.A. area Monday in...
American lauded for work as London train chief
(Knight Ridder Newspapers circulated the following article by Ken Dilanian on May 24.) LONDON -- If American Tim O'Toole wasn't sure quite what he was getting into when he was hired to manage London's beleaguered subway system, he got a quick taste on the day his...
Metra train delivers on boy’s dream
(The following article by Virginia Groark was posted on the Chicago Tribune website on May 24.) CHICAGO -- When Oliver "Ollie" Tibbles was 4 years old, he announced to his mother that he wanted to be a train someday. "I said, `Don't you mean you are going to be a...
Sumitomo Corporation of America and Nippon Sharyo, Ltd awarded contract for 61 bi-level passenger cars for VRE
(Sumitomo Corporation of America issued the following news release on May 23.) WAHSINGTON -- Sumitomo Corporation of America in conjunction with its car builder partner Nippon Sharyo, Ltd. were awarded on May 20, 2005 the contract to supply 11 bi-level passenger rail...
FRA selects ENSCO to build next generation track inspection vehicles
(Ensco issued the following new release on May 23.) SPRINGFIELD, VA. -- ENSCO, Inc. (www.ensco.com), a diversified research, development and information technology company, announced today that it has been awarded a $9 million contract from the Federal Railroad...
BNSF to expand use of ‘Green Goat(R)’ switch engines
(BNSF Railway Company and RailPower Technologies Corp. issued the following news release on May 23.) FORT WORTH, Texas and LOS ANGELES -- BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) and RailPower Technologies Corp. (Toronto: P - News) have announced that BNSF will keep its "Green...
BNSF to replace Helena soils
(The following report appeared on the Billings Gazette website on May 24.) HELENA, Mont. -- Some residential properties near Burlington Northern Santa Fe's Helena rail yard have tested unusually high for lead in the soil, what a state official says is a public health...
Coal trains returning to normal pace after derailments
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on May 24.) BILL, Wyo. -- Coal train traffic was returning to normal Monday after snow and rain damaged a major rail route and caused a pair of derailments near Bill. A BNSF coal train derailed May 14 and a Union...
