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TWU outlines plan to avoid fare hikes
NEW YORK -- The Transport Workers Union on Tuesday outlined a proposal that it said could prevent the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's proposed subway and bus fare hike, Newsday reported. The 34,000-member union said improving bus service and using in-house...
DM&E construction to begin in 2003
HURON -- Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad president and CEO Kevin Schieffer says "we're getting closer to construction of the railroad expansion project that will have a major impact on the Huron community," the Huron Plainsman reported. Schieffer, in a...
NS board ends stock discount purchase plan
ROANOKE -- Norfolk Southern Corp.'s board of directors has ended the company's shareholder rights plan that allowed shareholders the right to buy a certain number of new shares at a 50 percent discount price, the Roanoke Times reported. NS spokeswoman Susan Bland said...
Burlington bracing for fight to save railroad jobs
BURLINGTON, Iowa -- After more than a century of service in Burlington, a closed-door meeting with Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad became a sales pitch to save jobs -- 380 careers are on the line as the company studies consolidation possibilities in Topeka,...
Iowa begins wooing of BNSF
BURLINGTON, Iowa -- Burlington Mayor Tim Scott said the community had "one opportunity to make a good first impression" on Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad officials, the Hawk Eye reported. Local, state and federal officials believe they were successful in that...
UP cuts 17 more Pocatello jobs
POCATELLO, Idaho -- Union Pacific Railroad announced Monday it will eliminate 17 positions at the locomotive shop in its Pocatello yard, the latest in a series of cutbacks that began in the mid-1990s, the Idaho State Journal reported. UP spokesman John Bromley said 15...
NS lays off 81 Roanoke workers
ROANOKE, Va. -- A call from the boss interrupted Karl Taylor's vacation at his home Monday. Taylor, a truck driver and laborer in Norfolk Southern Railway Co.'s locomotive shop, learned he will be laid off, effective Dec. 1, the Roanoke Times reported. The call came...
Alert engineer saves man’s life in Chicago
CHICAGO -- A Mount Prospect man was arrested after he refused to move from the path of a packed Metra train Tuesday evening, police said. The Daily Herald reports that Luke A. Moretti, 48, of 601 E. Prospect Ave., Apt. 1L, was charged with one count criminal trespass...
Man goes on trial for Amtrak bomb threat
GLASSPORT, Pa. -- A man will go to trial for allegedly making a bomb threat aboard a Chicago-bound Amtrak train, stranding passengers just south of Pittsburgh for more than two hours, according to an Associated Press reported. Raymond Lamont Smith, 28, of Greenville,...
T rail choice seen as early as next week
BOSTON -- The MBTA could name a new commuter rail operator as soon as next week while a key state committee begins to explore whether the T should eventually run the service itself, the Boston Globe reported. T General Manager Michael Mulhern told the Joint...
