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Metro-North budgets station renovations
(The following article by Caren Halbfinger was posted on the White Plains Journal News website on May 17.) WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- Metro-North Railroad is set to begin millions of dollars worth of improvement projects at stations on the Harlem, Hudson and New Haven...
More up-front funds for Fla. bullet train sought
(The Associated Press distributed the following article on May 18.) ORLANDO -- A stark warning that the voter-mandated state bullet train may never roll for lack of funding prompted the Florida High Speed Rail Authority to ask its contractor Monday for more money up...
Calif. budget crisis threatens to derail high-speed rail project
(The Associated Press distributed the following article on May 17.) SACRAMENTO -- California’s high-speed rail project seems to be stuck on a siding, held up by a shortage of money to complete an environmental review and by disagreement over when to ask voters to...
Bids being accepted for LIRR link to Grand Central
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on May 18.) NEW YORK -- The city has begun accepting bids from contractors to build a 1.1-mile tunnel that would connect the Long Island Railroad to Grand Central Station. The Metropolitan Transit Authority began...
Junction City man wins suit against railroad
(The following report appeared on the Wichita Eagle website on May 18.) WICHITA, Kan. -- A U.S. District Court jury in Wichita awarded more than $800,000 in damages today to a Junction City man who claimed he sustained frostbite and a foot injury while working for the...
Huge payout in lawsuit over 2002 crash
(The Associated Press circulated the following story on May 16.) SANTA ROSA, N.M. -- A lawsuit filed by the families of those killed and injured in a deadly pileup on Interstate 40 west of Santa Rosa two years ago has been settled. It represents a huge settlement for...
CN reaches tentative contract with TCRC dispatchers
(The Canadian Press circulated the following story on May 15.) MONTREAL -- Canadian National Railway has reached a tentative deal on a new contract with the union representing about 200 Canada-based train dispatchers. Canada's biggest railway said Friday it remains in...
BNSF wants STB to hear Burlington suit
(The following article by James Quirk Jr. was posted on the Iowa Hawkeye website on May 14.) BURLINGTON, Iowa -- The Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway filed its response this week in U.S. District Court to a lawsuit filed by city officials on March 4. City Attorney...
Shippers grill U.P. chairman
(The following story by Stacie Hamel appeared on the Omaha World-Herald website on May 18.) SAN FRANCISCO -- Dick Davidson faced a roomful of Union Pacific Railroad customers Monday, many with one question foremost in their minds: When will the nation's largest...
Tiny Nevada town split by proposed nuclear railroad
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Ken Ritter on May 16.) CALIENTE, Nev. -- Mayor Kevin Phillips echoes the city’s welcome sign — "Prepared For Your Business" — as he watches a four-locomotive freight train rumble past his hardware store on rails...
