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Future freight train traffic is frightening for town’s mayor
(The following story by Jamie Mock appeared on the Southwest Sun website on April 19.) STAFFORD, Texas -- Freight train traffic will continue to grow in Stafford, impacting quality of life, was the warning Stafford Mayor Leonard Scarcella gave to residents at the last...
Norfolk Southern reports record revenues, income from railway operations
(Norfolk Southern issued the following news release on April 21.) NORFOLK, Va. -- For the first quarter of 2004, Norfolk Southern Corporation reported record revenues of $1.7 billion, up eight percent compared with the same period last year, and record first quarter...
Iowa city fights for railroad jobs
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Patrick Condon on April 21.) BURLINGTON, Iowa -- Battered by layoffs over the past few years, this Mississippi River town of crumbling brick buildings and faded Victorian homes is striking back at the one that...
Workers tackle BNSF corn spill
(The following report appeared on the Daily Inter Lake website on April 21.) ESSEX, Mont. -- A train derailed near Essex on Tuesday, blocking rail traffic in both directions and scrambling crews to clean up spilled corn before it attracted grizzly bears. "There were...
Train derails near Glacier Park
(The following article by Michael Jamison was posted on the Missoulian website on April 21.) ESSEX, Mont. -- A westbound grain train derailed Tuesday on the southern border of Glacier National Park, spilling 29 cars of corn near Essex. According to Gus Melonas,...
Railroading by remote: Locomotives unmanned in local rail yard
(The following story by Herb Meeker appeared on the Journal Gazette website on April 20. Ed Way is Chairman of the BLET’s Illinois State Legislative Board.) MATTOON, Ill. -- A locomotive running down the tracks without an engineer in the cab used to be a runaway...
AFL-CIO statement of Bush Administration overtime pay rule
(AFL-CIO President John Sweeney issued the following statement on April 20.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Ignoring the protests of millions of American families and defying the wishes of Congress, the Bush Administration has pressed forward with new overtime regulations that...
Bush administration to revise OT plan
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Leigh Strope and David Espo on April 20.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- With an eye toward November's election, the Bush administration is retreating on its planned overhaul of the nation's overtime rules to allow more...
Ridge warns attacks possible
(The following story by Shannon McCaffrey appeared on the Philadelphia Inquirer website on April 20.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Worried that terrorists have been emboldened by the recent train bombings in Spain, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge warned yesterday of...
Couple sentenced in missing Link railroad art case
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on April 20.) POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. -- The ex-wife of renowned railroad photographer O. Winston Link has been sentenced to prison for having a stolen cache of her late husband's art. Conchita Link Hayes, 68, and her...
