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Chair: Safety board could be leaderless
WASHINGTON -- According to the Associated Press, the board that investigates major transportation accidents, including the crash of a commuter plane in North Carolina last week, will have nobody in charge as early as next week unless President Bush designates someone...
U.P. job cuts become reality
(The following article by Grace Shim was published in the January 14 online edition of the Omaha World-Herald.) OMAHA -- The president of Union Pacific Railroad warned employees in a recent e-mail that aggressive cost-cutting and job cuts were coming in the first...
BNSF jobs cut in Iowa, Kansas
(The following article by Chris Moon was published in the January 13 online issue of the Capital Journal.) TOPEKA, Kan. -- Sorrow was felt in the Heartland on Monday when Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway abolished hundreds of jobs at the railroad's maintenance...
Train engineers union is angered by decision to let rivals run remotes
(The following story by Virginia Baldwin Gilbert was published in the January 13 online issue of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.) ST. LOUIS -- Leaders of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers say they're outraged at an arbitrator's decision to award locomotive...
CSXT announces Smartway transport partnership with Environmental Protection Agency
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- CSX Transportation (CSXT) announced Friday that it has agreed to become a Charter Partner with the United States Environmental Protection Agency's Smartway Transport program. The Smartway Transport program is a voluntary partnership between the...
Anti-war train drivers refuse to move arms freight
(The following article by Kevin Maguire was published in the January 9 issue of London s The Guardian newspaper.) LONDON -- Train drivers yesterday refused to move a freight train carrying ammunition believed to be destined for British forces being deployed in the...
Train wrecks snowmobile; driver charged
(The following story was published in the January 13 issue of the Central Maine Daily Sentinel.) READFIELD, Maine -- A Massachusetts man escaped injury Sunday when a train demolished his snowmobile. The Warden Service summonsed Scott Raptelis, 32, of Northampton,...
Federal regulators OK N.C. light rail
(The following Associated Press story was published in the January 11 issue of the Charlotte Observer.) CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The federal government has given the Triangle Transit Authority the go-ahead to acquire land for a 35-mile, $724 million commuter rail system...
Signal snafus plague Metro-North line
(The following story by Judy Rife was published in the January 13 issue of the Middletown Times Herald-Record.) MIDDLETOWN, N.Y. -- Metro-North Railroad's on-time performance plummeted on the Port Jervis line in November and December as a result of recurring signal...
Amtrak to offer riders massages
(The following Associated Press article was published on the ABC.com website on January 13.) OAKLAND, Calif. -- Amtrak riders headed toward Sacramento will be offered a new relaxing amenity on board the train dollar-a-minute neck and shoulder massages. Starting on...
