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Remote control in use at time of trainman’s death
(Syracuse.com posted the following article by Jim Read on its website on February 18.) SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- CSX accident investigators have returned to their Florida headquarters, where they will try to piece together the circumstances that led to the death of a company...
Feds sue ULLICO
(The following article by the Associated Press was published in the New York Times online edition on Feb. 13.) WASHINGTON -- Federal investigators are suing the president of a union-owned insurance company to seize subpoenaed documents he has refused to turn over,...
Both rail intermodal, carload freight up
(The Association of American Railroads posted the following report on its website on February 13.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Both intermodal and carload freight on U.S. railroads were up from last year during the week ended February 8, the Association of American Railroads...
Trooper rides the rails
(BLE Editor’s note: The Grand Forks Herald posted the following article by Jaime DeLage on its website on February 14. Tome E. Neihart is a member of BLE Division 695 in Minot, N.D. GRAND FORKS, N.D. -- Trooper-on-a-train Bill Klug boarded in Lakota, N.D., and had an...
CPR named finalist for prestigious prize in operations management
(The following press release was circulated by Canadian Pacific Railway.) CALGARY, -- Canadian Pacific Railway, in partnership with MultiModal Applied Systems, Inc., hasbeen named a finalist in the prestigious 2003 Franz Edelman Award for Management Science...
Railroads argue against state’s tough safety rules
(The following article by Paul Rogers was published in the San Jose Mercury News.) SAN JOSE, Calif. -- More than 11 years after a train derailed near Dunsmuir and dumped thousands of gallons of weed killer into the state's top fly-fishing river -- killing every fish,...
CN says it carries hazardous material safely
(The following article by Aeron Marcott-Plooy was published in the Marshfield (Wisc.) News-Herald) MARSHFIELD, Wisc. -- A train travels through Marshfield and Spencer at least once every 15 minutes. What's on them might surprise people. "Sometimes you can see what's...
U.S. farmers demand rail competition
(The following article by Adrian Ewins was published in the Saskatoon Western Producer.) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Canadian grain farmers aren't alone in looking to their federal government to do something about railway competition. Their counterparts south of the border...
Metro-North trains searched
(The following article by Jonathan Lucas and Hoa Nguyen was published in the Stamford Advocate.) STAMFORD -- Police conducted spot checks of commuter trains heading to New York City last night in response to the government's heightened terror alert. "We are conducting...
UP takes part in anti-terror program
(The Omaha World-Herald posted the following article by Grace Shim on its website on February 13.) OMAHA, Neb. -- Union Pacific Railroad said Wednesday that it is the first U.S. railroad to participate in the U.S. Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism. Union...
