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Election loss leaves Va. rail operators scrambling
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The people who operate rail systems in Northern Virginia and support additional public transportation were looking for Plan B yesterday, after voters soundly rejected a proposal to raise the sales tax and pour millions into transit projects, the...
Nova Scotia to explore ‘private-sector solution’ to Cape Breton abandonment
HALIFAX, N.S. -- Premier John Hamm said he still hopes to find a “private-sector solution” after the Utility and Review Board authorized the abandonment of industrial Cape Breton’s only rail link. But opposition MLAs blasted the government’s economic record on the...
Norfolk Southern’s environmental liability $30 million at Sept. 30
WASHINGTON -- Norfolk Southern Corp. has recorded $30 million for environmental exposure liabilities at Sept. 30, according to a document filed Tuesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission, reported Dow Jones Newswires. Of that amount, $8 million has been...
Coal industry sees slight improvement
NEW YORK -- Despite environmental concerns and encroaching alternatives, burning coal produces more than half the power generated in the United States -- an auspicious fact for companies that mine and transport coal, especially with electricity demand likely to rise...
Railroad man wins long battle to gain workers’ comp
LETHBRIDGE, Alberta -- A trainman with CP Rail has won a seven-year battle to get benefits from Alberta's Workers' Compensation Board for post-traumatic stress after watching two men burn to death in a train-truck collision, the Canadian Press reported. Barry Ericksen...
Railroads lure back produce business
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Suddenly, railroads again are viable competitors in the perishables business, the Portland Business Tribune reported. It wasn’t very long ago that Bud-Rich Potato Inc. of Hermiston shipped its fresh potatoes by rail "only if there was no other...
Teen sentenced in train derailment
SHUBENACADIE, Nova Scotia -- According to the Associated Press, a 15-year-old boy was sentenced to six months in youth jail Wednesday for causing a train to derail in eastern Canada, seriously injuring several people. The boy, who cannot be identified under Canadian...
US high court hears appeal on asbestos damages
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court returned to the asbestos litigation crisis on Wednesday, questioning whether workers can recover damages from an employer for fear of developing asbestos-related cancer, reports Reuters. The justices heard arguments by Carter...
Fire kills 12 on train in France
NANCY, France -- According to the Associated Press, a fire broke out in a sleeper car on overnight express train Wednesday, filling the car with smoke and killing 12 passengers, officials said. Five Americans were among the dead, the U.S. Embassy said. At least eight...
For night-shift railroaders, yards come to life after dark
AMARILLO, Texas -- As restless children across Amarillo lie stuck in their beds in the dark, locomotives shrieking in the distance and train cars bumping in railyards capture some of those young imaginations and tempt them into dreamful sleep with the thought that...
