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SEPTA releases service interruption plan
(SEPTA issued the following news release on April 7.) PHILADELPHIA -- SEPTA has released a Service Interruption Plan to help transit customers cope with the effects of a possible transit strike next week. Negotiations between SEPTA and Local 234 of the Transport...
BNSF honors 50 shippers for safe transport of hazardous materials at eighth annual Product Stewardship Awards event
(BNSF issued the following news release on April 7.) FORT WORTH, Texas -- BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) today honored 50 shippers with BNSF's Annual Product Stewardship Award for the safe transportation of hazardous materials by rail during 2004. Three companies, BP...
Rail freight traffic up in March
(The AAR issued the following on April 7.) WASHINGTON -- U.S. railroads originated 1,729,924 carloads of freight in March 2005, up 2.5 percent (42,764 carloads) from March 2004, the Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported today. U.S. intermodal rail traffic,...
CSX Corporation to hold first-quarter earnings conference call
(CSX issued the following news release on April 7.) JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- CSX Corporation will hold its first-quarter 2005 earnings conference call on Thursday, April 28, 2005, at 11 a.m. ET. CSX expects to issue its earnings at approximately 9 a.m. the morning of the...
BNSF brush clearing angers residents
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on April 7.) PESHASTIN, Wash. -- Residents of this small central Washington town were bemoaning the loss of wildlife habitat and a popular trail along the Wenatchee River after a bulldozer cleared a wide swath of...
Wash. State transportation officials seek solution to bottlenecks on rails
(The following article by Brad Wong was posted on the Seattle Post-Intelligencer website on April 8.) SEATTLE -- Puget Sound-area port officials often boast that they can handle the goods arriving to meet an insatiable nationwide demand for inexpensive Asian imports....
UP to begin testing Eunice lake for chemicals
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on April 7.) EUNICE, La. -- Union Pacific Railroad Company officials say they will begin environmental testing this month at the city lake in Eunice, where some residents suspect a May 2000 train derailment left...
Public voices frustration over Idaho train depot
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on April 7.) COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho -- A public hearing on Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Co.'s contamination of the region's aquifer drew plenty of participants, but neither representatives from the railroad...
San Bernardino residents allowed home following train derailment
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on April 7.) SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. -- The hundreds of San Bernardino residents who evacuated following a train derailment have been allowed back home. A Union Pacific Railroad spokesman says the evacuation order...
CSX won’t discuss hazmat settlement
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on April 8.) WASHINGTON -- Freight railroad CSX is refusing to hold talks with District government officials over their new law banning hazardous shipments through the city. In court Thursday, CSX lawyers said a...
