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Harrisburg, Pa. regional rail gets $985,860
HARRISBURG, Pa. -- After nine years of studies, the effort to revive regional commuter-rail service now depends largely on whether there's local money to run the trains, the Patriot-News reports. Yesterday, Capitol Area Transit announced that a federal agency has...
Opinion: On MBTA trains, conductors pass the buck
BOSTON -- Amtrak's past fiscal foibles were bad enough. Then came the cracked yaw dampers on the Acela Express, which knocked out the money-making, high-speed service for a month. It's still not all the way back, according to an editorial in the Boston Globe. Given...
Opinion: Put high-speed rail discussion in Texas on fast track
FORT WORTH, Texas -- Regular-speed passenger rail may be losing ground in Texas just as serious discussion of high-speed rail is being revived, according to an editorial in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Congress this week considered eliminating money-losing Amtrak...
CPR blazes a paper trail from Maine to Mexico City
EAST MILLINOCKET, Maine -- By rail, it's 3,500 miles, three international border crossings, five railroads and a cool 20 days from a paper mill in the mountains of Maine to a printing plant in the Valley of Mexico, the Canadian Pacific Railway reported in a press...
Opinion: Keep the trains running
NEW YORK -- It is time for Congress and the Bush administration to stop playing games with Amtrak's future, according to an editorial in the New York Times. They must either provide national passenger rail service with adequate resources, or acknowledge their failure...
Operator killed as train to Kennedy Airport derails in test run
NEW YORK -- A futuristic three-car elevated train, the precursor of a $1.9 billion automated light-rail system that is expected to carry millions of air travelers a year to and from Kennedy International Airport, derailed on a curve during a test run to the terminals...
Bombardier wins $143 million UK order
MONTREAL -- Bombardier Transportation has been awarded a contract by HSBC Rail, a UK based rolling stock leasing company, for the refurbishment of 302 passenger coaches for use British train operator Great North Eastern Railway (GNER). The total value of the contract...
Bombardier slashes work force
OTTAWA -- Faced with an "unpredictable economic environment," transportation giant Bombardier Inc. said Friday it will slash its aerospace work force by 6 per cent and cut assets under management at its financing arm by $5-billion, the Globe and Mail reported. The...
Canadian union workers better paid
OTTAWA -- Unionized workers earned about eight per cent more than their non-union counterparts in 1999, Statistics Canada reported Thursday. The statistics agency found the gap between the two groups has been shrinking. In 1986, union workers earned 20 per cent more...
Amtrak trial expands range of interactive video
HARRISBURG, Pa. -- It's not exactly high-speed mobile Internet access, but a Pennsylvania company is about to conduct tests of a system that will give Amtrak rail passengers something that emulates interactive television in their seats, according to a report from...
