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East side LIRR tab rises $1 billion
(The following story by Joie Tyrrell was published in the January 8 issue of Newsday.) NEW YORK -- The projected cost of the East Side Access project that would connect the Long Island Rail Road to Grand Central Terminal has jumped by almost a billion dollars. The...
Railroad builds up steam for Toyota bid
(The following story by David Hendricks was published in the January 9 issue of the San Antonio Express-News.) SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- Fort Worth-based Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad is boosting San Antonio's hopes of landing a Toyota Motor Corp. truck assembly...
Amtrak to put two new trainsets into service
(The following story by Eric Durr was published in The Business Review/Albany on January 8.) ALBANY, N.Y. -- Amtrak President David Gunn promised to put two Turboliner trainsets that have been rebuilt by the state at SuperSteel Schenectady into service within 90 days,...
Johnnie Cochran works on Amite train derailment suit
(The following Associated Press article was published in the January 9 issue of the New Orleans Times-Picayune.) AMITE, La. -- Lawyer Johnnie Cochran, best known for working on the defense team that won O.J. Simpson's acquittal on a murder charge, said the way people...
BNSF monitored underground spill since at least ’95
(The following story was published in the January 8 issue of the McCook Daily Gazette.) McCOOK, Neb. -- Discussion of the diesel spill near the city’s 4 million gallon water tank has brought some old news back to the front page of the McCook Daily Gazette. While at...
Rail system is growing but still a minor player
LOS ANGELES -- On a late October day in 1992, the first of Metrolink's double-decker commuter trains eased out of Moorpark in Ventura County, heading to downtown Los Angeles in the predawn darkness with 400 people aboard, according to an article in the Los Angeles...
Airlines aim to make strikes more difficult industry lobbies to revise labor law
WASHINGTON -- Airlines, which lost more than $9 billion last year, are asking Congress to rescue the industry by rewriting the federal law that governs airline labor relations to make it harder for unions to strike, according to officials representing major carriers....
Via workers disciplined for refusing to board train
(The following Canadian Press article was published in the January 9 issue of the Globe and Mail.) WINNIPEG -- A union spokesman says Via Rail employees who refused to work on a train that may have been contaminated with Norwalk virus are being disciplined. The train...
Via Rail passengers still getting sick
(CBC News-Winnipeg published the following story on January 8.) WINNIPEG -- A union official says an outbreak of illness aboard a VIA Rail train may have started in the smoking section. "That's where everybody smokes on the train, so everybody congregates there," says...
Norwalk virus fear stalls VIA Rail train
(The following Canadian Press article was published in the January 7 issue of the Edmonton Journal.) EDMONTON -- A VIA Rail passenger train en route to Toronto was stalled in Winnipeg for hours Tuesday when workers refused to board, fearing they may have been exposed...
