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Feud with Amtrak hangs up Verizon
(The following story by Ben Silverman appeared on the New York Post website on April 6.) NEW YORK -- A billing dispute between Verizon Communications and Amtrak is threatening to derail the communications system at the Republican National Convention in New York this...
More jobs open up at U.P.
(The following story by Stacie Hamel appeared on the Omaha World-Herald website on April 2.) OMAHA -- More than 180 Union Pacific employees will stay put in St. Louis rather than move with their jobs to Omaha. That means openings here, with the majority in information...
UP asks UPS to use trucks instead of trains
(The following story by Stacie Hamel appeared on the Omaha World-Herald website on April 2.) OMAHA -- Union Pacific has asked one of its largest customers to move cargo onto trucks for four weeks to help reduce the railroad's congestion and service delays. United...
UP working out of shortages
(The following article by Brent Hunsberger was posted on the Oregonian website on April 6.) PORTLAND, Ore. -- Freshly cut two-by-fours are piling up in the shipping yards at Swanson Group Inc.'s Southern Oregon mills, an unwelcome reminder of the persistent toll that...
Plan would transport nuke waste by rail
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on April 5.) LAS VEGAS -- Radioactive waste bound for a planned national nuclear dump in Nevada would be transported by trains on a 319-mile rail line to be built across the state, the federal government announced...
SEPTA fetches bomb-sniffers
(The following article by Jim Nolan was posted on the Philadelphia Daily News website on April 6.) PHILADELPHIA -- SEPTA is expanding its use of man's best friend to sniff out man's worst enemy. Less than a month after terror attacks in a Madrid, Spain, rail station...
Scare empties Union Station
(The following story by David A. Fahrenthold appeared on the Washington Post website on April 6.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Union Station was evacuated for half an hour yesterday afternoon, and train service on Amtrak and Metro lines was briefly halted, while police...
BLET calls for Pa. train security alert
(The BLET’s Pennsylvania State Legislative Board circulated the following news release on April 5.) HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Ken Kertesz, Legislative Board Chairman of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) has asked for a security alert to the general...
NY bids to secure subways but ‘no guarantees’
(Reuters circulated the following story on April 5.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said on Monday the city was working hard to prevent an attack on its trains and buses but that the largest U.S. mass transit system was still vulnerable....
Train security must be ‘group effort’
(The following report by Fred Bayles appeared on the USA Today website on April 6.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Passengers saw something strange moments before a series of explosions killed 191 people on the Madrid rail system last month. But no one said anything until it was...
