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Rail service finally returns to Morton
MORTON, Wash. -- After a 22-year absence, rail service has returned to Morton, which lies 60 miles south of Tacoma, the Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce reported. In a test run, Tacoma Rail picked up a freight car of lumber at the Tubafor Mill, hauled it to Tacoma...
MBTA seeks permit from Army Corps of Engineers
HINGHAM, Mass. -- The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) is seeking a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' permit to place fill material within a total of 7.81 acres of wetlands and waterways for the construction of the Greenbush Old Colony Railroad Commuter...
N.D. may seek rail rate regulations
MINOT, N.D. -- The North Dakota Public Service Commission is looking at asking the federal Surface Transportation Board to regulate rail rates in the state, according to a report from television station KXMC in Minot. Governor Hoeven's proposed budget contains...
Feds probe worker’s death at railyard
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration has seized safety records from the Sunnyside-based construction company whose employee was killed last week as he worked on Staten Island Railway property, the Staten Island Advance...
Maglev award up for grabs for two cities
McKEESPORT, Pa. -- For magnetic levitation advocates in Pittsburgh and Baltimore-Washington, D.C., the contest for a $950 million federal contract looks like a game of "20 Questions," the McKeesport Daily News reported. "Is the Bush Administration committed to an idea...
NJ Transit tunnel study for MOM line released
SOUTH BRUNSWICK -- After almost two years, a study on building a $77 million tunnel under the Northeast Corridor Line has been released by NJ Transit, the North Brunswick Sentinel reported. The study, completed in August 2001 by J.E. Sverdrup and Parsons Brinkerhoff,...
Amtrak’s Ethan Allen stalls
RUTLAND, Vt. -- Seventy-six passengers on a Rutland train bound for New York City spent more than four hours shivering after the engine broke down Thursday outside Whitehall, N.Y., the Rutland Herald reported. “They were stuck there for hours without heat,” said...
Snow may face questions on Virginia Utility role
RICHMOND, Va. -- An extraordinary corporate civil war was under way, the Chicago Tribune reported. The chief executive of the Virginia Electric & Power utility was locked in a battle in 1994 with Thomas Capps, CEO of his parent company, Dominion Resources Inc. Some...
CN re-aligns U.S. divisions
CHICAGO -- Canadian National Railway today announced a re-alignment of its organizational structure in the United States to reflect more closely the geographical and operational balance of the company resulting from the acquisition of the Wisconsin Central...
More railroad workers take retirement
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Last January's liberalizing of retirement benefits for the nation's railroaders doubled the number of retirees this year, but neither labor or industry officials are voicing any concern, the Florida Times-Union reported. The increase is the first...
