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Testimony to detail problems with Acela
(The following article by Sara Kehaulani Goo was posted on the Washington Post website on May 11.) WASHINGTON -- The brake problem that sidelined Acela high-speed trains last month appears to be the result of fatigue in the metal components, according to preliminary...
Statement by AFL-CIO President John Sweeney on April Employment Report
(The AFL-CIO issued the following statement on May 9.) WASHINGTON -- Last month’s jobs gain is an encouraging sign for America’s working families, but we must be sure that the employment growth is not just another blip on our economic radar. There are many signs that...
Work in Progress
(The AFL-CIO issued the following on May 9.) JUSTICE GOES ISLANDWIDE—In San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 26, delivery drivers at Islandwide Express voted to join Teamsters Local 901. There are 150 workers in the bargaining unit, and Islandwide does more business than both...
D.C. transit system gets wrapped up in ads
(The Associated Press circulated the following article by Heather Greenfield on May 9.) NEW CARROLLTON, Md. -- Passengers boarding the first trains wrapped in advertising to roll along Washington's subway lines were seeing green Monday - and so was the money-strapped...
Railroad crossing hazards lurk in rural areas of Wisc.
(The following article by Larry Sandler was posted on the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel website on May 9.) MILWAUKEE, Wisc. -- Rural areas and small towns dominate the latest list of Wisconsin's most dangerous railroad crossings. That's not an accident, says the state's...
Opinion: New Jersey Transit line balances commuter, neighborhood needs
(The following editorial by Michael J. Panter and Robert L. Morgan was posted on the Asbury Park Press website on May 10.) ASBURY PARK, N.J. -- As a result of tremendous growth over the last two decades, increased public transportation has become a necessity for...
Opinion: Some rail over the rainbow
(The following editorial by Bob Caylor was posted on the Fort Wayne News Sentinel website on May 10.) FORT WAYNE, Ind. -- The prospects for high-speed rail and the possibility of one day riding trains from Fort Wayne to Chicago or to Cleveland running faster than 100...
BNSF refueling depot to reopen
(The Associated Press circulated the following article by Nicholas K. Geranios on May 10.) SPOKANE, Wash. -- An Idaho judge yesterday allowed a Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Co. locomotive fueling depot to reopen, even though the facility has leaked fuel into...
Local officials in Calif. make plea for Amtrak funding
(The following article by Elisabeth Sherwin was posted on the Davis Enterprise website on May 9.) WOODLAND, Calif. -- Supervisor Helen Thomson of Davis and her colleagues urged President Bush last week to get on board the Capitol Corridor rail service. "Over the past...
Opinion: Amtrak and the last spike
(The following editorial was posted on the Oregonian website on May 10.) PORTLAND, Ore. -- Today marks the anniversary of one of the great events in American transportation history -- the golden spike celebration at Promontory, Utah, and the opening of the...
