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Plan to ax rail raises ire
(The Herald News posted the following article by James Finlaw on its website on April 15.) FALL RIVER, Mass. -- If the administration of Gov. Mitt Romney intends to scrap plans to establish a commuter rail link between the city and Boston, as a published report...
A long-delayed train put on the track at last
(The Albany Times-Union posted the following article by Cathy Woodruff on its website on April 15.) ALBANY, N.Y. -- New York's first rebuilt Turboliner train made its inaugural round trip to New York City with paying passengers aboard on Monday, marking a milestone on...
Gunn says Downeaster will continue
(Maine television station WLBZ posted the following story on its website on April 14.) BANGOR, Maine -- Visiting Maine Friday, the president of Amtrak said despite the rail carrier's financial problems, it will honor its commitment to the Downeaster train service....
House panel comes to Nebraska for rail hearing
(The Grand Island Independent posted the following article on its website on April 15.) LINCOLN, Neb. -- Drivers in Nebraska spend an estimated 6,350 hours a day waiting for trains to go by. They are stopped at one of the state's 4,000 public and 2,700 private rail...
New AFL-CIO Executive PayWatch website exposes excessive CEO retirement plans
(The AFL-CIO issued the following news release on April 14.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The new AFL-CIO Executive PayWatch website (www.paywatch.org) unveils an egregious form of risk-free CEO pay utilized by many Fortune 1000 companies -- excessive executive pensions. At...
Massive rail expansion planned for Sacramento
(The Modesto Bee carried the following Associated Press article by Jim Wasserman on its website on April 13.) SACRAMENTO -- One hundred and forty years after businessmen drove the first spike of the Transcontinental Railroad here, California developers plan one of the...
TTD praises key vote helping laid off aviation workers
(The AFL-CIO’s Transportation Trades Department issued the following news release on April 11.) WASHINGTON, D.C. –- The following statement was issued by Sonny Hall, President of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO, in reaction to today’s votes by the...
Commuters on Downeasters swear by rail
(The Hampton Union posted the following article by Sue Morse on its website on April 14.) HAMPTON, N.H. -- I board the Downeaster in Dover on Tuesday with about a dozen other passengers to take the morning commuter train into Boston. What is an adventure and a...
POW liberated in Iraq is son of CSX conductor
(The Boston Globe posted the following article on its website on April 13.) Fittingly, there was a Hollywood ending yesterday to the prisoner of war saga of Ronald D. Young Jr., the Army helicopter pilot from Georgia with the movie-star looks and the John Wayne...
Suit claims derailment site not properly cleaned up
(The Observer-Dispatch posted the following article by Tim Blydenburgh on its website on April 14.) UTICA, N.Y. -- A Little Falls couple is suing CSX Transportation, claiming a freight train derailment last year left syringes, needles and pills scattered along their...
