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Boston consortium favored on rail pact
BOSTON -- Boston-based consortium that includes a former MBTA general manager has emerged as the front-runner to operate the T's commuter rail service, agency officials and rail specialists say, in a move that could establish it as an eventual private-sector...
Ottawa commuter rail service gives Halifax hope
HALIFAX -- Mayor Peter Kelly is back from Ottawa, optimistic that Halifax may one day have its own commuter rail service, the Halifax Daily News reported. While attending a mayors’ conference in the capital city last week, Kelly took the opportunity to check out the...
For union, transit workers’ deaths make contract talks with MTA more difficult
NEW YORK -- According to the New York Times, the transit workers' union warned that the deaths of two subway workers in on-the-job accidents would make it harder to reach agreement in contract negotiations because many workers want sweeping changes in safety...
BNSF works to keep contaminant out of drinking water
HAVRE, Mont. -- Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway intends to launch a project to prevent a contaminant found last summer in groundwater from reaching drinking water in the unincorporated community of North Havre, the Associated Press reported. The contaminant,...
Amtrak regional rail line emerging model of success
SEATTLE -- Here in the busy north-south corridor west of the Cascade Mountains, Amtrak is having what it considers to be a reliability problem: six breakdowns among the trains that run between Eugene, Ore., and Vancouver, B.C., reports the Washington Post. To put it...
CP Rail says changes will prevent big job cuts
CALGARY -- Canadian Pacific Railway says it will avoid large-scale job cuts, like those announced November 26 by rival Canadian National, due to gradual staff reductions over the past two years and a more diversified business strategy, the Canadian Press reports....
Recent NS derailment highlights potential for danger
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- As recently as Sept. 19, there was a minor derailment at Norfolk Southern's K-Yard of two cars carrying the toxic chemical 1,3-butadiene, according to records from the Metropolitan Sewer District, which administers the Louisville-Jefferson County...
NS rail yard stores toxic chemicals next to school
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Just behind Kennedy Montessori Elementary School in western Louisville sits a seemingly unsecured rail yard where tanker cars of toxic chemicals are stored on their way in and out of the Rubbertown industrial complex, the Louisville Courier-Journal...
UP derailment ‘a mess’
STOCKTON, Calif. -- A train derailment broke the Sunday morning quiet of a north Stockton neighborhood as rail cars rumbled off their tracks and screeched to a halt, dumping thousands of gallons of paraffin wax aside Union Pacific tracks just north of Hammer Lane, the...
Remote control operator killed in Bethlehem Steel accident
BURNS HARBOR, Ind. -- A 47-year-old Hobart man was killed Friday morning in an apparent industrial accident at Bethlehem Steel, The (Muncie, Ind.) Times reported. Randal E. Moehl, a 29-year employee of the company, was pronounced dead at the scene after his body was...
