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AFL-CIO transportation unions go to court to protect workers from overreaching TSA/FAA rules
(The TTD released the following press release on March 18.) WASHINGTON, DC -- The AFL-CIO Transportation Trades Department (TTD) today joined four airline unions in asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to review recent Bush Administration...
CN works to speed customs clearance process
(The Canadian National Railway issued the following press release on March 19.) TORONTO, Ontario -- CN and customs brokerage company Livingston International today announced the joint development of a new electronic link to increase the speed and accuracy of customs...
Security tightens across nation
(The following Associated Press story was posted on the New York Times website on March 19.) WASHINGTON -- From airports to cattle feedlots to nuclear plants, the government began tightening security Tuesday to fortify America against terror. The plan, called...
Extra security is ordered for Clinton railroad bridge
(The Quad City Times posted the following article by Kay Luna on its website on March 19.) CLINTON, Iowa -- Bridge foreman Jerry Naughton is used to seeing heightened security at the hulking swings-pan railroad bridge, owned by Union Pacific Railroad, over the...
Terrorist train bombing in Indian puts Pa. engineers on alert
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. -- Pennsylvania's Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (BLE) has issued a full alert warning this week to all its locomotive engineers operating trains on the state's 5,600 miles of track following a train bombing that killed 10 and wounded 70 in...
28 empty BNSF coal cars derail
(The Amarillo Globe-News posted the following article by Rick Storm on its website on March 19.) LELIA LAKE -- A Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway train derailment in Donley County on Tuesday morning caused minor injuries to one railroad employee, but three...
Rail workers to strike in Italy, Spain, France to protest EU liberalization
(The Associated Press distributed the following article on March 17.) ROME -- Train workers were set to walk off their jobs in Italy, Spain and France forseveral hours Tuesday to protest liberalization of the railway sector in theEuropean Union. In Italy, the walkout...
Experts call for focus on high speed rail to create “travelports” and redefine air travel
(The following is a press release distributed by the Midwest High Speed Rail Coalition on March 17.) CHICAGO -- On Saturday, March 15th, over 125 Midwestern residents gathered in Chicago to discuss possible solutions to the nation's crisis in intercity travel....
SEPTA’s defibrillators never used
(The Philadelphia Daily News posted the following article by Jim Nolan on its website on March 18.) PHILADELPHIA -- It's enough to give you a heart attack. Two years ago, SEPTA bought state-of-the-art, mobile cardiac defibrillators. And for more than a year now,...
CPR provides first-quarter earnings outlook
(The Canadian Pacific Railway issued the following statement on March 18.) CALGARY -- Canadian Pacific Railway today said diluted earnings per share in the first quarter of 2003, excluding foreign exchange gains and losses on long-term debt, are likely to be in the...
