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NS annual report cites performance improvements
(Norfolk Southern issued the following news release on March 1.) NORFOLK, Va. -- Performance improvements achieved in 2003 are driving business growth and shareholder value, David R. Goode, chairman, president and chief executive officer, said in his letter to...
CAW consults members on offer
(Reuters circulated the following article by Robert Melnbardis on February 29.) MONTREAL -- A union representing 5,000 workers striking over pay at Canadian National Railway Co. is consulting its members on the company's latest contract offer, officials said on...
Engineers consider joining striking CN workers
(CBC Manitoba posted the following story on its website on February 27.) WINNIPEG -- More than 130 engineers with Canadian National Railway are threatening to join striking Canadian Auto Workers. CAW-represented maintenance workers have been walking the picket lines...
Canadian Pacific derailment in Minot, N.D., and sinking of passenger vessel in Florida Everglades to be considered at NTSB public meeting
(The NTSB circulated the following news release on February 27.) WASHINGTON -- The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a public Board meeting on Tuesday, March 9, 2004 at 9:30 a.m., in its Board Room and Conference Center, 429 L'Enfant Plaza, S.W.,...
BNSF considers staying in Memphis
(The following story by Jane Roberts appeared on The Commercial Appeal website on Febraury 27.) MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- After a lengthy site search in the tristate area, Burlington Northern-Santa Fe Railway Co. is now considering staying in Memphis and merging its rail yard...
We would rather not kill
(The Ames, Iowa, Tribune posted the following article by David Lahner on its website on February 27. Brother Lahner is the Legislative Representative of BLET Division 6 in Boone, Iowa.) It's a cool, sunny, day and we're rumbling eastward at 50 mph approaching Ames. We...
Update on NTSB investigation of February 21 freight train collision in New Mexico
(The NTSB circulated the following news release on February 27.) WASHINGTON -- The National Transportation Safety Board launched a Go Team to investigate the collision of two Union Pacific freight trains in Carrizozo, New Mexico at 7:54 a.m., MST, February 21, 2004....
Switching tracks
(The following story by Ted Jackovics appeared on the Tampa Tribune website on March 1.) TAMPA -- John Melovich and Danny Swails rely on 66 years of combined experience in switching freight cars around CSX's Yeoman rail yard. They also rely on technology like never...
Remotely run trains gain steam
(The following article by Jack Money was posted on the Daily Oklahoman website on February 15.) TULSA -- That train rumbling along just north of downtown might be remote-controlled. Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway is using remote-control technology to direct some...
Supermarkets, union reach tentative pact
(The following article by Charlie LeDuff and Steven Greenhouse was posted on the New York Times website on February 27.) LOS ANGELES -- Supermarket executives and union leaders involved in a four-and-a-half month-old labor dispute in Southern California reached a...
