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BNSF to modify fuel surcharges
(The following report by y Dan Piller appeared on the Fort Worth Star-Telegram website on March 30.) FORT WORTH, Texas -- Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway said that beginning Jan. 1, it will impose fuel surcharges based on mileage rather than as a percentage of...
14 UP freight cars derail near Lockhart
(The following story by Roger Croteau appeared on the San Antonio Express-News website on March 30.) SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- Fourteen cars from a Union Pacific freight train jumped the tracks near Lockhart in Caldwell County at 2:43 a.m. Tuesday, injuring three...
NS, CN plan could help La. chemical shippers
(The following report appeared on The Advocate website on March 29.) BATON ROUGE, La. -- Louisiana's chemical industry stands to benefit from two railroads' decision to provide a more direct route for traffic between the Gulf Coast and the Northeast, an industry...
Shutdown hangs over Amtrak
(The following story by Jennifer Brooks appeared on the Delaware News Journal website on March 30.) WILMINGTON, D.C. -- Few members of Congress have a more personal stake in Amtrak's future than the three lawmakers from Delaware who ride the train to work. "It's like...
Amtrak’s demise could hurt SEPTA
(The following story by Jennifer Brooks appeared on the Delaware News Journal website on March 30.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- There's more riding on the outcome of the Amtrak debate than just the question of whether the trains will run on time between Wilmington, Washington...
Pilots, Senators criticize air and rail security
(Reuters circulated the following story by Deborah Charles on March 10.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A pilot group gave the U.S. government failing grades on Thursday on measures from screening airport employees to defending planes from missiles, despite large amounts of...
Opinion: Uphill for Amtrak
(The following editorial appeared on the Boston Globe website on March 30.) BOSTON -- Free-market believers look at Amtrak and see a subsidy-devouring rail system just waiting to be handed over to small, entrepreneurial transportation companies that would run trains...
Shareholders back KCS-TFM deal
(The following story by Randolph Heaster appeared on The Kansas City Star website on March 30.) KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Kansas City Southern shareholders overwhelmingly approved measures allowing it to acquire controlling interest of Mexico's biggest railroad in a deal...
KCS shareholders OK acquisition of TFM
(The Associated Press circulated the following story on March 29.) KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Railroad company Kansas City Southern Industries Inc. said Tuesday its shareholders have approved its acquisition of Mexican rail line Transportacion Ferroviaria Mexicana, or TFM....
Work in Progress
(The AFL-CIO circulated the following on March 28.) NEW JAX CITY VOICE—Some 534 city employees in Jacksonville, Fla., won a voice at work after voting to join the Communications Workers of America Local 3106. The workers are librarians, social workers, engineers and...
