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Opinion: Bush administration, corporations want to cut pensions
(The Contra Costa Times posted the following editorial by syndicated columnist Molly Ivins on its website on February 27.) SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- You ain t no John Snow when it comes to pensions. Snow, our new treasury secretary, was chief executive of the railroad...
Metro track blamed in derailment
(The following article by Lyndsey Layton appeared in the Washington Post.) WASHINGTON -- The section of Blue Line track where a six-car train derailed last month was not designed for everyday use and violated Metro's standards because it lacked metal rail guards meant...
Railroad enlists rabbi’s help in removing kosher salad oil from tank car
(The Miami Herald posted the following Associated Press article on its website on February 27.) MINNEAPOLIS -- For Rabbi Asher Zeilingold, a request by Canadian Pacific Railway to help recover kosher canola oil from a derailed tank car was just another day at the...
MTA bigs miss bus to hearings
(The following article by Clemente Lisi appeared in the New York Post.) NEW YORK -- When straphangers speak, not all the MTA board members are there to listen. Three members of the 23-member body that will vote next week on whether to raise bus and subway fares to as...
Opinion: Railroad safety
(The Sacramento Bee posted the following editorial on its website on February 22.) SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The nation's railroads faced off against the state of California in federal court recently. The state contends, reasonably, that it should have the authority to...
BNSF Foundation awards grants to 130 Texas organizations in 2002
(BNSF distributed the following press release.) FORT WORTH, Texas -- The Burlington Northern Santa Fe Foundation awarded 130 grants totaling more than $1 million to non-profit organizations in the state of Texas in 2002. These grants support non-profit programs...
Amtrak struggles to survive
(The Poughkeepsie Journal posted the following article by Michael Valkys on its website on February 27.) POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. -- Mario Mino has been riding Amtrak for 10 years from the Rhinecliff station to Penn Station in Manhattan, where the Rhinebeck resident works....
Opinion: Amtrak’s future
(The New York Times posted the following editorial on its website on February 27.) NEW YORK -- After flirting last year with the idea of derailing the nation's passenger railroad, Washington seems to have come to its senses. Thanks largely to the perseverance of...
BNSF train derails near Belknap
(The Southern Illinoisan posted the following article by Mark Lambird on its website on February 26.) BELKNAP -- A Burlington Northern Santa Fe train derailed near the rural Johnson County town of Belknap Wednesday night. The derailment happened at about 9:30 p.m....
Railroad regulator Linda Morgan resigns
(The following article by Don Phillips was published in the Washington Post.) WASHINGTON -- Linda J. Morgan, the federal official who saw the railroad industry through a decade of turbulent mergers, said she will resign from the Surface Transportation Board on April...
