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To move ahead, each side’s negotiators had to loosen grip on the past in MTA negotiations
NEW YORK -- As negotiators approached the limits of exhaustion early Monday morning, the city's transit contract talks came down to a question of the value of the past, the New York Times reports. In the end, in fact, the concessions on both sides may have had as much...
MTA: Contract gains won’t finance higher wages
NEW YORK -- In announcing the deal that averted a transit workers' strike, leaders of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said they had won productivity gains to help pay for the 6 percent wage increase in a new three-year contract, according to the New York...
Three UP cars derail
BENICIA, Calif. -- Three Union Pacific Railroad cars from the Valero refinery derailed near Teal Drive, according to a Benicia Fire Department report. The Benicia News reports that the cars derailed upright and were not damaged, Union Pacific regional public relations...
Texas derailment ties up traffic
ARLINGTON, Texas -- A Union Pacific locomotive veered into two railcars traveling on parallel tracks Tuesday, triggering a derailment that left one of the railcars hanging precariously over a busy freeway and tying up traffic for miles, the Dallas Morning News...
Disney makes high-speed rail ultimatum
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- It should be a perfect match, according to the St. Petersburg Times. The state plans a bullet train that needs riders and money. Walt Disney World ferries 2.2-million visitors a year to and from Orlando International Airport. Disney is willing...
Under the bridge, a man of means by no means
ROSEVILLE, Calif. -- In the West, the roads eventually lead to the tracks and the tracks eventually lead to a bridge. And under this bridge lives one Carl F. Polson, according to the New York Times. Roseville has the biggest railroad yard west of the Mississippi...
Rail-car division unit wins GO order
MONTREAL -- Bombardier Transportation has received a $55 million order to build 20 two-level commuter-train cars for the Toronto area, the Canadian Press reported. The order from the Greater Toronto Transit Authority, which runs the GO Transit service that brings...
Railroad project’s success means more money
EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio -- Business is increasing so quickly for the railroad owned by the county Port Authority that an additional $200,000 is being loaned to keep up with repairs, the Morning Journal News reported. The port authority on Friday agreed to loan $200,000...
Railroad coalition hires Chicago lawyer
LEWISTOWN, Mont. -- Lewistown's railroad coalition has hired Chicago attorney Thomas McFarland to negotiate with the Burlington Northern-Santa Fe Railway on its plans to abandon the Lewistown tracks, the News-Argus reported. The coalition, led by the Fergus County...
BNSF expands its guaranteed on-time carload service
FORT WORTH, Texas -- The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company (BNSF) today announced it has expanded its guaranteed on-time carload rail service to seven lanes, including three additional lanes from the Pacific Northwest to Arizona and northern/southern...
