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Topeka mayor optimistic about BNSF
TOPEKA, Kan. -- Mayor Butch Felker still has hope of retaining the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad locomotive shops in Topeka, the Topeka Capital-Journal reported. He made that assessment at his weekly news conference Tuesday after spending the morning touring...
N.S. government has plan that may keep Cape Breton railway running
SYDNEY, N.S. -- The Nova Scotia government said Tuesday it has a plan that could keep a Cape Breton railway running, the Canadian Press reported. The government said it has the right to buy the line at a low price -- the net salvage value -- and it will offer that...
Province ponders rail line purchase
HALIFAX -- The Hamm government is considering buying the rail line from Point Tupper to Sydney in order to flip it to a private operator, the Halifax Daily News reports. Economic Development Minister Cecil Clarke told the legislature yesterday the province has the...
Designs unveiled for transit hub at Ground Zero
BOSTON -- Demonstrating the speed with which planning at the World Trade Center site is taking place, Port Authority officials showed early designs for a permanent transportation hub at the site today, incorporating many elements of the temporary PATH station that is...
Lawsuits, bad financial markets holding up start of DM&E project
HURON, S.D. -- A series of lawsuits and a troubled financial market is delaying the start of the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad's $2 billion improvement and expansion project, said Kevin Schieffer, DM&E president and CEO in an interview with the Huron...
Some laid-off Amtrak employees to be called back
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Congress' approval of short-term financial help for Amtrak is expected to allow the rail carrier to call back most of the more than 200 workers laid off in February at a maintenance center in Indianapolis, the Associated Press reported. Of the 228...
BLE Vice-General Chairman Reynolds earns CN President’s Awards
(BLE Editor's Note: John Reynolds is BLE Vice-General Chairman for the Wisconsin Central in Green Bay, Wisc.) MONTREAL, QUEBEC -- Canadian National - North America's Railroad - recently named eight northeastern Wisconsin residents as winners of its CN President's...
BLE General Chairman Bochman earns CN President’s Award
MONTREAL -- Canadian National -- North America's Railroad -- recently named Berlin, Wis. resident Brad Koenig and Fond du Lac, Wis. residents Jeff Bochman, Jeff Brazeau, and Ed Terbell as winners of its CN President's Awards for Excellence for 2002. In this year's...
BLE member J.W. Wickersham earns CN President’s Award
(BLE Editor's Note: J.W. Wickersham is a member of BLE Division 188 in Superior, Wisc.) MONTREAL, QUEBEC--Canadian National - North America's Railroad - recently named 19 northwestern Wisconsin residents (from Alma Center, Arpin, Ashland, Gilman, Hurley, Kennan,...
Greenup asks CSX to ban remote controls
GREENUP, Ky. -- The Greenup County Fiscal Court adopted a resolution Tuesday asking CSX Transportation to stop operating its recently assigned remote-controlled locomotives, the Huntington (W.Va.) Herald-Dispatch reported. "Railroad equipment is known to present...
