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Two BLET members killed in New Mexico train wreck
(The following article by Louie Gilot was posted on the El Paso Times website on February 23. Anthony Rodella and Jeffrey Bohler were members of BLET Division 192 in El Paso, Texas.) CARRIZOZO, N.M. -- The deadly collision of two Union Pacific freight trains in...
AFL-CIO backs Kerry
(The Associated Press distributed the following article on February 20.) WASHINGTON -- Divided for much of the political season, organized labor got behind the candidacy of Democratic front-runner John Kerry on Thursday, with the president of the AFL-CIO proclaiming...
SEPTA to OK deal to build rail cars at old Navy Yard
(The following article by Erin Einhorn and Myung Oak Kim was posted on the Philadelphia Daily News website on February 20.) PHILADELPHIA -- Unless something big happens between now and next Thursday, the SEPTA board is poised to approve a contract that would create...
New hires climb aboard revitalized rail industry
(The following article by Lori Rotenberk was posted on the Boston Globe website on February 20.) CHICAGO -- Jeff Lee was working in sales for a Kansas City health club until he felt the romance of the rails calling to him, like whistles echoing along the tracks that...
Strike at CN won’t delay GO trains
(The following article by Neco Cockburn was posted on the Toronto Star website on February 20.) TORONTO -- A strike by 5,000 workers at CN Rail that began at 12:01 a.m. today will not disrupt GO Transit service in Toronto, the Canadian Auto Workers union says. CAW...
About 5,000 unionized CN Rail workers begin strike across Canada
(The Canadian Press circulated the following article on February 20.) MONTREAL -- The picket lines started to go up after midnight as the first of about 5,000 workers at CN Rail went on strike, hours after last-minute talks with the railway ended without an agreement....
Canadian rail workers go on strike
(The Associated Press distributed the following article on February 20.) TORONTO -- About 5,000 workers at CN Rail went on strike at midnight Thursday after last-minute talks with the railway ended without an agreement, union officials said. The Canadian Auto Workers...
Derailment causes evacuation, road closings
(The following article by Sulaiman Beg was posted on the White Plains Journal News website on February 20.) HAVERSTRAW, N.Y. -- A freight train derailment last night on the CSX tracks led to a partial evacuation of village residents and closed Route 9W and many...
Railroad bridge collapses in Texas
(Houston television station KPRC posted the following article on its website on February 20.) HOUSTON -- San Jacinto County officials struggled to keep a shifting freight train from falling into the Trinity River after the bridge it sat on collapsed late Thursday...
U.S. to keep key data on infrastructure secret
(The following article by John Mintz was posted on the Washington Post website on February 19.) WASHINGTON -- Starting tomorrow, chemical companies, railroads, electric utilities and other parts of the nation's critical infrastructure can begin submitting sensitive...
