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Environmentalist accuse BNSF of dragging feet on study release
(The Associated Press circulated the following story on January 3.) HAUSER, Idaho -- North Idaho environmentalists are accusing the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe railroad of delaying the release of information about water and soil contamination from a leak at its...
Rail advocates call for more funding in Virginia
(The following article by Lisa Rein was posted on the Washington Post website on January 2.) WASHINGTON -- As the General Assembly prepares to take up Gov. Mark R. Warner's plan to boost transportation spending in Virginia, rail advocates are pushing for a bigger...
KCS fills executive posts
(The following article by Randolph Heaster was posted on the Kansas City Star website on January 4.) KANSAS CITY -- Kansas City Southern has appointed Arthur L. Shoener to the positions of executive vice president and chief operating officer of the company. Shoener...
Union Pacific making tracks
(The following report by Patrick Driscoll appeared on the San Antonio Express-News website on January 31.) SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- Union Pacific, whose safety image was clobbered by a series of serious train accidents this year in San Antonio, plans to spend $54 million...
Faulty Amtrak train may be behind ’04 crash
(The following article by Sharon Terlep was posted on the Lansing State Journal website on January 2.) LANSING, Mich. -- Federal regulators are investigating whether Amtrak trains have faults that contributed to a crash that killed a Charlotte woman and her daughter...
Regulators striving to make trains more visible at railroad crossings
(The following article by David Patch was posted on the Toledo Blade website on January 4.) TOLEDO, Ohio -- Every time Laura Gomoll crosses a railroad track, she is reminded of her stepson Jeremiah's death four years ago. Over the next 10 years, the trains themselves...
Final rule on reflectorization of rail freight rolling stock
(The Federal Railroad Administration issued the following news release on January 3.) WASHINGTON -- Reflective materials will be installed on the sides of locomotives and freight rail cars as a safety measure to make trains more visible to motorists at railroad...
New rule may lessen train-car crashes
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on January 3.) WASHINGTON -- A new federal safety rule aimed at decreasing motorist collisions with trains at gate crossings requires that all freight locomotive and rail cars install reflective materials to make...
LIRR union OKs possible strike
(The following story by Joie Tyrrell appeared on the Daily News website on December 31.) NEW YORK -- Unhappy with the prospect of non-union labor moving trains within a Queens yard, the Long Island Rail Road's Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen has voted...
Rail freight traffic up during Christmas week
(The Association of American Railroads posted the following news release on its website on December 30.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Freight traffic on U.S. railroads was up sharply during the week ended December 25 in comparison with the corresponding week last year, the...
