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Heat means slower rail trips
(The Associated Press circulated the following story on July 21.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Rail commuters will have a slow ride home from D.C. tonight. Freight operator CSX has heat related speed restrictions in effect, meaning commuter trains using those tracks have to go...
CN profit estimates raised
(The following story by Angela Barnes appeared on the Globe and Mail website on July 22.) MONTREAL -- Analysts have been adjusting their profit estimates, and in some cases their price targets, on Canadian National Railway Co. after the transportation firm beat...
MBTA hears concerns over rail expansion
(The following story by Charlie Breitrose appeared on the Metro West Daily News website on July 22.) FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- Residents gave Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority officials an earful of concerns over the impact of proposed changes to train service...
UP to sell 240-acre rail yard in Sacramento
(Millennia Sacramento and Union Pacific issued the following news release on July 22.) SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Union Pacific Railroad Company and Millennia Sacramento, III, LLC today announced that they have signed an agreement for the sale and purchase of the 240-acre...
Railroad tank car offers training for disaster
(The following story by Lauren Taylor appeared on the Northeast Booster website on July 21.) TOWSON, Md. -- Each day, trains carrying hazardous materials barrel through the county, their path often near thousands of workers and homes. A derailment or explosion could...
CP files claim against coal partnership
(Bloomberg circulated the following story on July 21.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd., the country's second-biggest railroad, said it filed a claim for C$14.18 million ($10.72 million) against Elk Valley Coal Partnership, the second-largest...
NS to sponsor Jamestown’s 400th anniversary celebration
(The Associated Press Writer circulated the following story by Bob Lewis on July 21.) RICHMOND, Va. -- Norfolk Southern became the first major corporate sponsor Wednesday of the nation's 400th anniversary celebration of the founding of America's first permanent...
Wife of man who died on commuter train sues MBTA for wrongful death
(The Associated Press circulated the following story on July 21.) WELLESLEY, Mass. -- The wife of a man who suffered heart attack on a commuter train and died after the conductor made two regular stops to pick up passengers plans sued the MBTA for wrongful death on...
CN pleads not guilty in train derailment that killed two
(Broadcast News circulated the following story on July 21. Art McKay was a member of the BLET.) PRINCE GEORGE -- CN Rail has asked court for a preliminary hearing be held into charges related to a fatal train derailment near McBride in May last year. The company is...
CAW given strike mandate by 2,500 Via Rail employees
(The Canadian Press circulated the following story on July 22.) MONTREAL -- Unionized Via Rail employees have given a strike mandate to the Canadian Auto Workers union by a majority of nearly 83 per cent, the union said on Wednesday. A CAW official said employees...
