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Republican picked to head NTSB
WASHINGTON -- The Associated Press reports that President George W. Bush said yesterday that he would elevate Republican John Hammerschmidt to vice chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, enabling him to take over when a Democrat's term expires this...
UP derailment spills hops
(The following report was issued by television station KPVI in Pocatello, Idaho, on January 15.) IDAHO FALLS -- The Union Pacific railroad is cleaning up tons of barley at this hour, after one of its trains de-railed in Idaho Falls. The train was headed to the...
IC&E derailment dumps grain
(The following story by Jessica Miller was published in the January 15 issue of the Waterloo/Cedar Falls Courier.) LAWLER, Iowa -- A train derailed this morning in Chickasaw County, spilling grain along the Iowa Chicago & Eastern railroad tracks west of town. The...
Train cars derail
PLAINVIEW, Tex. -- According to the Amarillo Globe-News, an eight-car derailment occurred on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad tracks here at about 4 p.m. Monday, according to Joseph Faust, BNSF regional director of public affairs in Fort Worth. The 44-car...
UP makes initial job cuts in cost-cutting campaign
(The following Associated Press article was published in the January 14 issue of the Grand Island Independent.) OMAHA -- Union Pacific Railroad has started to eliminate jobs as part of an aggressive cost-cutting initiative. Some of the first cuts were made Monday as...
Iowa workers dejected and angry
(The following story by Criss Roberts was published in the January 14 issue of The Hawk Eye.) BURLINGTON, Iowa -- All of the railroad's workers had a premonition job cuts were coming, but at 2:30 p.m. Monday, employees of the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway...
Derailed dreams — Once again, hard times
(The following story by Chris Moon was published in the January 15 issue of the Topeka Capital-Journal.) CARBONDALE, Kan. -- Losing his job at the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway shops won't be the end of the world for Anthony DaPrato. "We've seen our hard...
Chemical drums spill under CSX train
(The following report was issued by television station WJXT in Jacksonville, Fla., on January 15.) JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Fire-Rescue personnel were called to the CSX tracks in northwest Jacksonville just after 6 a.m. when nine 55-gallon drums fell out and were crushed...
Longshore workers finish voting on contract
(The following Associated Press article was published on January 14 in the online issue of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.) LOS ANGELES -- Members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union completed voting yesterday on a contract covering West Coast ports,...
FRA announces online availability of GradeDec.Net Benefit-Cost Analysis Tool
WASHINGTON -- The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) today announced the online availability of GradeDec.Net, an Internet application and database designed to aid benefit-cost analyses of highway-rail grade crossing infrastructure investments. The application,...
