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SWCM registration is now online
CLEVELAND -- Registration information for the upcoming 69th Southwestern Convention Meeting (SWCM) is now available on the BLET website. Registration forms for the convention and the golf tournament can be found at: https://www.ble-t.org/info/meetings/swcm/ Brother...
Work in Progress
(The AFL-CIO distributed the following on July 12.) New members reported in this week's WIP: 1,341 New members reported in WIP, year-to-date: 71,793 PRIDE OF ALOHA--The Seafarers and the Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association celebrated the July 4 christening of the...
New plant will help railroad
(The following story by Chip Jones appeared on the Times-Dispatch website on July 13.) RICHMOND, Va. -- MeadWestvaco Corp. broke ground last week on a $7 million wood-processing plant in Buckingham County, a project that's considered a major step forward for the...
CSX gave to Fla. anti-bullet train drive
(The Associated Press circulated the following story on July 13.) ORLANDO, Fla. -- A road builders' lobbying organization gave $330,000 of the $1.3 million collected for a petition drive aimed at derailing Florida's bullet train project, according to a campaign...
Union Pacific problems make passenger trains late
(The following story by Hasso Hering appeared on the Albany Democrat-Herald website on July 13.) ALBANY, Ore. -- Amtrak passenger trains serving Albany have been late most of the time. In June, the four daily trains in the Cascades service between Portland and Eugene...
Ex-CSX employee loses case
(The following story by Andrew Wolfson appeared on The Courier-Journal website on July 13.) LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A Jefferson Circuit Court jury has rejected the claims of a former CSX Transportation Inc. worker who said he suffered brain disease from his exposure to...
Jury rules for CSX in workers’ negligence suit
(The Associated Press circulated the following story on Juy 12.) LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A jury ruled in favor of CSX Transportation Inc. in a lawsuit brought by a former employee who claimed he suffered brain disease from exposure to toxic chemicals used by the railroad....
New York Times investigates railroad accidents
(The following story by Jane Flasch appeared on Rochester television station WORK’s website on July 12.) ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- The CSX train collision that killed John and Jean O'Connor on Winton Road in Henrietta last February has attracted national attention from those...
Economic recovery is congesting rail lines
(Bloomberg circulated the following story by Rip Watson on July 13.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Union Pacific Corp. and other U.S. railroads have more business than they can handle in a strengthening economy, causing delays that forced Midland-based Dow Chemical Co. to idle...
Snow declines to comment on CSX safety record
(CBS Marketwatch.com circulated the following story by Corbett B. Daly on July 12.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Treasury Secretary John Snow declined to comment on his safety record as the head of the railroad giant CSX after a newspaper article said a railroad accident that...
