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CSX track lease to Watco starts Friday
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on March 22.) GRAFTON, WVa. -- A Kansas-based transportation holding company will begin operating 117 miles of leased CSX Transportation track between Grafton and Cowen, plus five short branch lines, on Friday....
2005 IWC registration forms now available
CLEVELAND -- Members planning to attend the upcoming International Western Convention in July can now register with forms available on the BLET website. The 65th annual IWC will be held in Calgary, Alberta, from July 3-8 at the Fairmont Palliser Hotel. It will...
Va. rail official has up-close view of Amtrak political show
(The following story by Chip Jones appeared on the Richmond Times-Dispatch website on March 21.) RICHMOND, Va. -- The annual circus over funding Amtrak opened in Washington last week, and one of Virginia's transportation officials had a front-row seat. Karen Rae,...
Congress skeptical of Amtrak cutbacks
(Hearst Newspapers circulated the following article by Timothy Spence on March 19.) WASHINGTON -- Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta told Congress on Friday that continued federal subsidies to Amtrak "cannot be justified" and urged lawmakers to back the Bush...
M.T.A. lags in spending to combat terrorism
(The following article by Sewell Chan was posted on the New York Times website on March 19.) NEW YORK -- Two years after the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said it would spend $591 million to fortify its transit network against a possible terrorist attack,...
UP, Houston agree on re-routing
(The following story by Mike Snyder and Samantha Levine appeared on the Houston Chronicle website on March 19.) HOUSTON -- Hope emerged on two fronts Friday for Houston residents fed up with the noise, inconvenience and danger posed by the freight trains that rumble...
UP to move lines from Texas urban areas
(The following article by Walt Bogdanich was posted on the New York Times website on March 19.) NEW YORK -- After a string of serious railroad accidents in southern Texas, Gov. Rick Perry said yesterday that he had signed an agreement with the nation's largest...
A toxic cargo turned into a mystery
(The Associated Press circulated the following article by Leon D'Souza on March 20.) SALT LAKE CITY -- When a brew of acids leaked from the corroded sides of a railroad tank car recently, forcing the evacuation of 6,000 people, emergency workers say they faced the...
High tech meets old tech
(The following article by Christopher Dinsmore was posted on the Virginian-Pilot website on March 21.) NORFOLK, Va. -- The railroad industry is developing such systems for its locomotives in six places around the country. Known as positive train control, the systems...
Federal Railroad Administration changes effective date of interim final rule on use of train horns
(The FRA issued the following news release on March 18.) WASHINGTON -- The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) announced today that it has changed the effective date of its Interim Final Rule (IFR) on the Use of Locomotive Horns at Highway-Rail Crossings to June 24,...
