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BLET member supports crossing gates
(The following story by Susan Cort Johnson appeared on the Lassen County News website on June 16. Scott G. Palmer is Legislative Representative of BLET Division 842 in Klamath Falls, Ore.) LASSEN COUNTY, Calif. -- The Lassen County Board of Supervisors gave District...
Train cars derail in Salt Lake City
(The following article was posted on Salt Lake City television station KUTV’s website on June 16.) SALT LAKE CITY -- There were some frightening moments in Salt Lake City Wednesday when some train cars came off the track while pulling into a rail yard. A little after...
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...
STB announces matters & cases to be addressed at June 22 voting conference
(The Surface Transportation Board issued the following news release on June 16.) WASHINGTON -- Surface Transportation Board Chairman Roger Nober today announced the matters and cases to be addressed at the STB's open voting conference to begin at 10:00 a.m. on...
Groups can pursue action against railroad
(The following story by Fred Leeson appeared on the Portland Oregonian website on June 16.) PORTLAND, Ore. -- A federal judge will allow two Southeast Portland neighborhood associations to seek enforcement of a 1956 court order regulating railroad operations in a...
Effort targets rail-crossing roulette
(The following story by Patrice Relerford appeared on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch website on June 15. D.R. Downs Jr. is a member of BLET Division 107 in St. Joseph, Mo.) Officer Al Jones sat beside a railroad engineer and stared through the windshield in disbelief as...
Rail development a hot topic
(The following article by Debra Gruszecki was posted on the Munster Times website on June 16.) MUNSTER, Ind. -- Ten years ago, when the topic of high-speed rail development in Indiana came up, some envisioned elevated platforms on which a train would operate. That...
Feds approve detailed engineering for Dulles rail
(The following article by Dominic Bonaiuto and Marcia McAllister was posted on the Reston Times website on June 15.) RESTON, Va. -- The decades-long effort to extend Metrorail into the Dulles corridor reached a critical milestone last week when federal transit...
Future bright as Amtrak begins sixth year
(The following story by Jennifer Sicking appeared on the Gainesville Register website on June 15.) GAINESVILLE, Texas -- Brittany Hise and Shelly Reynolds excitedly played a hand-slapping game as they waited with Hise's grandmother, Marilyn Robinson at the Santa Fe...
Amtrak and AT&T Wireless keep customers logged on from Boston to Baltimore
(Amtrak and AT&T Wireless issued the following news release on June 16.) REDMOND, Wash. and WASHINGTON -- Starting today, commuters will be able to stay connected to the Internet and office email at train stations along the Northeast Corridor. Following an agreement...
