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Opinion: Mishandling maglev
(The following editorial appeared on the Baltimore Sun website on March 22.) BALTIMORE -- The notion that soon there will be sleek, high-tech trains hurtling along at 300 miles per hour on a cushion of air, shuttling commuters between Baltimore and Washington, has...
Facing a lawsuit, SEPTA cancels deal to buy railcars
(The following story by Jere Downs and Nathan Gorenstein appeared on the Philadelphia Inquirer website on March 21.) PHILADELPHIA -- SEPTA abruptly canceled its quarter-billion-dollar purchase of new Regional Rail cars Friday in order to end a lawsuit that accused the...
Memphis offers BSNF $4.4 million in incentives
(The following story by Jane Roberts appeared on The Commercial Appeal website on March 20.) MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- The Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad was promised $4.4 million in tax breaks Friday to expand here instead of in Mississippi or Marion, Ark. In its...
CAW members chug back to work after CN strike ends
(The following story by Nicolas Van Praet appeared on The Montreal Gazette website on March 20.) MONTREAL -- A four-week strike that crippled container traffic at Canadian National Railway Co., triggered layoffs at crop producers and caused widespread uncertainty for...
Terrorists a danger on trains
(The following story by Elaine S. Povich appeared on Newsday’s web site on March 22.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- With images of the dead and bloodied in the Madrid railroad bombings still fresh, some Northeastern senators and members of Congress are warning that Pennsylvania...
Spain blast prompts demands for funds
(The following story by Spencer S. Hsu and Lyndsey Layton appeared on the Washington Post website on March 22.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Public transit officials in Washington and across the country said they plan to ask the Homeland Security Department today for increased...
Arbitration panel rules in favor of KCS in Grupo TFM deal
(Kansas City Southern issued the following news release on March 22.) KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Kansas City Southern (KCS) announced today that the panel of the AAA International Centre for Dispute Resolution hearing the dispute between KCS and Grupo TMM, S.A. (TMM) issued...
Homeland Security to announce rail security steps
(The following story by Mimi Hall appeared on the USA Today website on March 22.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge is expected to announce several new rail-security programs today to address a growing demand for security upgrades following the...
Amtrak lags in implementing security technologies
(The following story by Dan Verton appeared on the ComputerWorld website on March 19.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In the aftermath of the March 11 terrorist attacks that killed 201 train passengers in Madrid, some U.S. lawmakers and IT professionals are raising questions...
Bombardier shares continue descent
(The Canadian Press circulated the following story on March 18.) MONTREAL -- Shares of Bombardier Inc. fell by as much as 11 per cent today as the stock market digested the major shakeup of the company's European rail division announced the day before. In the sober...
