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Railroad ordered to make more repairs to old bridge
(The Chicago Daily Herald posted the following article by Amy McLaughlin on its website on March 05.) CHICAGO -- Union Pacific Railroad Co. has been ordered by a state regulators to make more repairs to the old wooden railroad bridge over the Northwest Highway S-curve...
Lawsuit vs UP, UTU seeks birth control cover
(Forbes.com posted the following Reuters article by Chris Stetkiewicz on March 5.) SEATTLE -- Three women workers at Union Pacific Corp. Tuesday sued the largest U.S. railroad to try to force it to add contraception coverage to its health care plan. In a class action...
Next stop, $2 fare
(The New York Daily News published the following article by Pete Donohue.) NEW YORK -- Metropolitan Transportation Authority staffers have finalized much of the final fare- and toll-hike package that the MTA board is expected to approve tomorrow. The plan, obtained by...
Acting chief of LIRR named
(Newsday.com posted the following article by Joie Tyrrell on March 5.) NEW YORK -- The Long Island Rail Road's vice president of operations, Jim Dermody, has been named acting president of the railroad until a new head is named, the Metropolitan Transportation...
Officials fight LIRR merger
(The Suffolk Life Newspapers posted the following article by Larry Swasey on its website on March 5.) SUFFOLK, N.Y. -- Two town supervisors teamed up last week to say the Long Island Rail Road needs to be run from Long Island. Huntington Supervisor Frank Petrone and...
N.J. Transit projects wait in line for funding
(The following article by Tom Hester Jr. appeared in the Trenton Times on March4.) TRENTON, N.J. -- The state's plan to spend $2.58 billion in the coming fiscal year on transportation projects focuses mostly on repairing and improving existing service, again leaving...
Opinion: Amtrak’s “Gilligan train”
(The Richmond Times-Dispatch posted the following column by Chip Jones on its website on March 3.) RICHMOND, Va. -- Lois Cady recently learned the truth of that old adage, "There's no free lunch." Only for Cady, there was no free train ride. Cady was one of the...
Bombardier announces it will not meet previously announced financial targets
(Bombardier issued the following press release via Business Wire on March 4.) MONTREAL -- Bombardier Inc. announced today that on the basis of preliminary results compiled by the Corporation for the fiscal year ended Jan. 31, 2003, financial targets previously...
CSXT announces promotion of Ken Peifer
(CSXT issued the following press release.) JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- CSX Transportation today announced the promotion of Kenneth R. Peifer to senior vice president- Labor Relations for CSX Transportation (CSXT), responsible for the design and execution of the rail...
Regulators say Chico tracks safe for fast trains
(The Chico Enterprise Record posted the following article by Ariel Cohn on its website on March 4.) CHICO, Calif. -- An inspection by federal regulators has determined that Union Pacific's railroad tracks in Chico are safe enough to carry freight trains traveling 70...
