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CSX eliminates more than 100 jobs
(The following story by Bob Withers was published in the January 4 issue of the Herald-Dispatch.) HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- CSX Transportation has furloughed 106 train service employees at various points along its C&O Division in the past four weeks, a railroad...
Chinese railroad boom aims to spread prosperity
(Associated Press reporter Joe McDonald wrote the following story, which was published in 1-3-03 online issue of the Toronto Star newspaper.) BEIJING -- They're laying track to Tibet, creating the region's first railway. In Shanghai, they've constructed the world's...
Trans-Siberian Railroad now electrified
(The following Associated Press article was published in the 1-3-03 online issue of the Austin American Statesman.) MOSCOW --Russian officials celebrated the full electrification Wednesday of the legendary Trans-Siberian railroad line, the world's longest track. ``The...
Indian train crash kills at least 8
HYDERABAD, India -- The Associated Press reports that a passenger train slammed into a freight train in southern India late Thursday night, killing at least eight people and injuring 25 others, railroad officials said Friday. A railroad spokesman in Hyderabad, capital...
AFL-CIO AND PACE International Union announce boycott against Graphic Packaging Corp., Coors beer to be targeted
KALAMAZOO, Mich. -- Decrying the "brutal demands" to force workers to work as many as seven days per week and 16 hours per day at the Graphic Packaging Corporation (GPC) plant in Kalamazoo, MI and the "anti-worker, union-busting practices of the Coors Family," PACE...
State to investigate Rothschild rail crossing
(The following story, written by Keith Uhlig, appeared in the 1-2-02 online issue of the Wausau Daily Herald.) ROTHSCHILD, Wisc. -- State and village officials are scrutinizing a railroad crossing that has been the site of two recent truck-train crashes in the span of...
Ill. Gov.-elect will ride train to inauguration
(The following Associated Press article was published in the 1-2-03 online issue of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.) CHICAGO - Illinois Gov.-elect Rod Blagojevich plans to add a whistle-stop train ride to his inauguration festivities. Blagojevich will make the 200-mile...
Intermodal sets record for 2002
(The following press release was posted on the Association of American Railroads' website on 12-27-02.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Intermodal traffic on U.S. railroads set an annual record during 2002, for the sixth time in the last seven years, the Association of American...
CN to acquire high-capacity freight cars
(The following appeared in the 1-2-02 online issue of the Fon du Lac Reporter newspaper.) FON DU LAC, Wisc. -- The Canadian National Railroad has announced that it will acquire 550 high-capacity freight cars next year for its service-sensitive forest products...
Calif. maglev seeks to bolster local support
(The following story was published in the 1-1-03 issue of the Victorville, Calif., Daily Press.) VICTORVILLE - In an effort to boost local confidence in the magnetic levitation train talked about - and delayed - for decades, Maglev officials said this week that the...
