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BNSF shareholders elect directors
(Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation issued the following news release on April 20.) FORT WORTH, Texas -- Shareholders of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation elected 10 directors, including Matthew K. Rose, chairman, president and chief executive officer, at...
Union Pacific reports first quarter results
(Union Pacific issued the following news release on April 21.) OMAHA, Neb. -- Union Pacific Corporation today reported earnings of $.48 per diluted share, or net income of $128 million in the first quarter of 2005 compared to earnings of $.63 per diluted share, or net...
Canadian National’s profit rises 42 percent on acquisitions
(Bloomberg News distributed the following article by Rip Watson on April 20.) WASHINGTON -- -- Canadian National Railway Co., the North American railroad with the highest profit margins, said first-quarter earnings rose 42 percent, helped by acquisitions and rate...
CN’s first-quarter 2005 net income rises 42 percent
(Canadian National issued the following news release on April 20.) MONTREAL -- CN today reported its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2005. Highlights - Net income of $299 million, or $1.04 per diluted share, an increase of 42 per cent from...
Acela trains will not run until Summer, Amtrak says
(The following article by Matthew L. Wald was posted on the New York Times website on April 20.) WASHINGTON -- Amtrak said Wednesday that brake problems on its Acela Express trains would keep them out of service until sometime in the summer and that in the meantime,...
Amtrak’s Acela sidelined until Summer
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on April 20.) WASHINGTON -- Amtrak will not be able to run any of its high-speed trains until the summer because of delays in getting replacement parts to correct brake problems on Acela Express cars, railroad...
Graniteville man’s death blamed on chlorine train wreck
(The Associated Press circulated the following article by Jacob Jordan on April 20.) GRANITEVILLE, S.C. -- A 51-year-old man who inhaled chlorine almost four months ago during one of the nation's deadliest chemical spills has died, according to his family and their...
Appeals court halts D.C. ban
(The following article by Frank James was posted on the Chicago Tribune website on April 20.) WASHINGTON -- To drivers and pedestrians around the country, the pitch-black railroad tank cars that daily roll through cities to deliver chlorine, liquid propane and various...
UP faces probe on fatigue, employee management
(The following story by Patrick Driscoll appeared on the San Antonio Express-News website on April 19. Terry Briggs is Chairman of the BLET’s Texas State Legislative Board.) SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- Federal officials probing June's deadly train crash in South Bexar...
Wheel bearing causes train derailment
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on April 20.) MOUNT PLEASANT, Iowa -- Railroad officials say a bad wheel bearing on a rail car is apparently what caused a coal train to jump the tracks in Mount Pleasant earlier this week. Eleven cars on the BNSF...
