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CSX to spend $47 million in Tenn.
(The Nashville City Paper posted the following article by Jeremy Heidt on its website on May 22.) NASHVILLE -- The No. 1 freight railroad in the east, CSX Transportation, will be spending $47 million on maintenance and upgrades in Tennessee during 2003, an increase of...
CSX plans to spend $28 million on rail work
(The Baltimore Sun posted the following article on its website on May 22.) HAGERSTOWN, Md. -- CSX Corp. will spend more than $28 million this year to maintain and improve its rail system in Maryland, the company said yesterday. About a quarter of that amount is...
CSX plans upgrade in Michigan
(The Detroit Free Press posted the following article on its website on May 22.) DETROIT -- CSX Transportation Inc. plans to upgrade its network in Michigan at a cost of $21 million, the Jacksonville, Fla., company said. The railroad company owns and maintains about...
For VRE riders, a fare price to pay
(The Washington Post published the following article by Lyndsey Layton on May 22.) WASHINGTON -- Virginia Railway Express officials held a public hearing this spring in Manassas on a plan to raise fares 4 percent, but no one came. "We just sat there for an hour and a...
Genetic discrimination ban advances
(The following article by the Associated Press appeared in the New York Times online on May 21.) WASHINGTON -- After years of talking about the issue, a Senate committee approved legislation Wednesday to bar employers and insurers from discriminating against people...
Mock derailment fools some Regina residents
(CBC News-Saskatchewan posted the following article on its website on May 22.) REGINA -- Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) staged a mock train crash behind Casino Regina on Tuesday. The staged derailment was aimed at training emergency medical services, the fire...
All aboard Amtrak’s latest fare sale
(MSNBC.com posted the following article by Pauline Frommer of Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel on May 22.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Poor, beleaguered Amtrak is doing everything it can to attract more riders. It's added MapQuest technology to its site, to help confused...
Amtrak seeks advertising agency
(AdWeek.com posted the following article by Alicia Griswold on its website on May 21.) ATLANTA -- Amtrak this week holds talks with four agencies competing for its $27 million account, according to sources. The contenders are Havas' Arnold in McLean, Va., Interpublic...
Amtrak is better late than empty
(The News-Journal posted the following article by Mike Elswick on its website on May 22.) LONGVIEW, Texas -- Despite on-time performance issues, an Amtrak official says passenger train travel on the Texas Eagle route running through Longview was up 39 percent in March...
CPR eyes BC Rail partnership
(The Globe and Mail posted the following article on its website on May 22.) OTTAWA -- Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. says it intends to file an expression of interest in BC Rail Ltd. within 10 days, proposing a public-private partnership between the Calgary company and...
