BLET News
No Results Found
The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.
Daily Headlines
Maine rail-service advocate offers example for Virginia
(The following story by Chip Jones appeared on the Richmond Times-Dispatch website on November 24.) RICHMOND, Va. -- Before becoming a rail activist in Maine, Wayne Davis "was just a banker who never paid much attention" to state government or transportation. It took...
CP Rail forecast higher earnings, freight volumes
(Reuters distributed the following article on November 21.) TORONTO -- Canadian Pacific Railway said on Friday it expects basic earnings per share, before unusual items, to rise by 20 percent in 2004 from 2003 helped by a recovery in Canadian grain volumes and...
CPR to contribute $300 million to plan
(The Canadian Press circulated the following story on November 21.) TORONTO -- Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. is kicking an extra $300 million into its pension plan -- the latest Canadian company forced to deal with pension shortfalls caused by poor stock markets and...
Union Pacific loses lawsuit over racism
(The following story by Edgar Sanchez appeared on the Sacramento Bee website on November 22.) SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Union Pacific Railroad must pay $500,000 in damages to an African American laborer for racism he endured from white co-workers and bosses during his...
Railway still one tough player
(The following article by Scott Morris was posted on the Arlington Herald website on November 24.) ARLINGTON, Wash. -- Railroads have given way to other modes of transportation, but when it comes to land deals, they still wield a lot of power. For example, Arlington...
UP gets creative to fatten management paychecks
(The following story by Gretchen Morgenson appeared on the New York Times website on November 24.) NEW YORK -- Beauty is not all that lies in the eye of the beholder. Earnings can also be subjective, especially when executive compensation is at issue. Three years ago,...
N.J. PATH train from 9 – 11 returns to WTC
(The Associated Press distributed the following article on November 24.) NEW YORK -- A commuter rail line connecting Manhattan with New Jersey that was severed during the World Trade Center attacks has been re-established following an emotional train trip undertaken...
Again, trains put the world in Trade Center
(The following article by David W. Dunlap was posted on the New York Times website on November 24.) NEW YORK -- And yesterday, the people returned to ground zero. Not those who were impelled to work there or compelled to grieve there, but the many more who have been...
Derailed train carried hazardous materials
(The Associated Press circulated the following story on November 23.) CORDOVA, Ala. -- A train carrying hazardous materials suddenly derailed in the Cordova section of Walker County Saturday. More than a dozen cars derailed from a freight train at about 2 p.m....
Train cars derail in Ala.
(The following article by Joseph Bryant was posted on the Birmingham News website on November 24.) BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Some of the Burlington Northern Railroad cars hung from the bridge while others were thrown into the Black Warrior River below, littering the banks...
