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Teamster aircraft mechanics ratify contract with UPS
WASHINGTON -- Teamster aircraft mechanics at United Parcel Service (UPS) ratified a strong, five-year contract. The contract was ratified with 65 percent of the members voting in favor of the contract. Vote turnout was as high as 90 percent of the 1,200 mechanics took...
New York Regional Rail contract expected to boost revenue by 10%
NEW YORK -- New York Regional Rail Corp. (NYRR) announced today that its rail subsidiary, New York Cross Harbor (NYCH) has been awarded a long-term transportation agreement by a major food producer for the shipment of rice. Under this agreement, rice shipments will be...
Deal revives delayed plan for train hub
NEW YORK -- Gov. George E. Pataki has struck an agreement with the United States Postal Service to buy the James A. Farley Building on Eighth Avenue to turn the two-block-long building into a new glass-covered Pennsylvania Station, according to the New York Times. The...
City officials warn motorists of new railroad bridge
PHILADELPHIA -- On Monday morning, Schuylkill Expressway commuters doing the bumper grind through the construction zone at King of Prussia will find a startling change of scenery: a 484-foot-long, 42-foot-tall behemoth of a railroad bridge that hadn't been there...
BNSF to offer guaranteed on-time carload service
FORT WORTH, Texas -- The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company (BNSF) on October 7 began offering the industry's first full-money-back guarantee for carload rail service, the railroad said in a press release. Shippers will have the option to purchase, for a...
Va. residents team up to get CSX to repair crossings
FRANKLIN, Va. -- Six bone-jarring, axle-jolting railroad crossings have spurred residents into a letter-writing campaign seeking relief, the Virginian Pilot reported. CSX and Norfolk Southern tracks lace this city of 8,300. Wary residents slow to a crawl as they...
Investigators look for cause of CSX derailment in Miss.
WAVELAND, Miss. -- Investigators with the Federal Railroad Administration said Monday it could take weeks or even months before they determine what caused a CSX train to derail on Sunday, the (Biloxi, Miss.) Sun Herald reported. Railroad repair crews worked through...
U.S. railways start buying CANAC’s remote-control units
MONTREAL -- It's been a good year for Frank Trotter, the Montreal Gazette reported. At the helm of CANAC Inc., a railway-services company, for the last five years as president and chief executive officer, Trotter has seen the company grow by 35 per cent in the last...
Bill aims to limit remote-control locomotives
TOLEDO, Ohio -- A state senator from Youngstown, who is a CSX train engineer, has introduced a bill that would prohibit operation of remotely controlled locomotives over public road crossings, the Toledo Blade reported. State Sen. Bob Hagan (D., Youngstown) said...
Transportation labor condemns Bush actions in Longshore talks
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The following statement was issued today by Sonny Hall, President of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO, in the wake of President Bush improperly intervening in the ongoing collective bargaining situation on the West Coast docks. "I am...
