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Push for changes at Amtrak is seen in shaping budget
WASHINGTON -- Amtrak's problem-plagued summer has reignited debate over the railroad, leading critics of the rail system to say it will enhance their efforts to hold down spending on Amtrak unless significant changes are made in how it operates, according to the New...
Steel bar blamed for train derailment
HAYWARD, Calif. -- Amtrak's Pacific Coast Starlight struck a 160-pound steel drawbar on the tracks Wednesday night before it derailed, according to Union Pacific Railroad spokesman John Bromley, reports the Oakland Tribune. The 40-inch-long bar, which joins rail cars...
Transport worker ID in works
BOSTON -- The U.S. Transportation Security Administration is developing a mandatory identification card for every trucker, dock worker, airport employee, and mass transit operator in the nation with access to secure corners of the country's transportation network, the...
Union protests remote operation in Warren, Ohio
WARREN, Ohio -- Some railroad workers say they are concerned about trains' running with no one at the switch, according to the Youngstown Vindicator. Within the last several weeks, CSX Transportation Inc. began moving trains in a yard at the WCI steel plant on Pine...
Amtrak lease appears far from station costs
ALBANY, N.Y. -- The Capital District Transportation Authority and Amtrak continued efforts Monday to hammer out final details of a lease for a new Rensselaer station as it remained unclear how CDTA plans to cover the building's operating costs, reports the Albany...
Penn Township complaints bring Maglev route revision
PITTSBURGH -- Planners have revised the route of a proposed high-speed magnetic levitation train through Westmoreland County to allay criticism from residents of Penn Township, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports. The recommended alignment, completed about two weeks...
Opinion: Amtrak’s future includes high speed
INDIANAPOLIS -- Our position is: Congress will have to address the Amtrak mess when it returns after Labor Day. Amtrak's trains are running late again, but better late than not at all, according to an editorial in the Indianapolis Star. Rail travel in the nation's...
KCS board declares quarterly preferred dividend
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The Kansas City Southern (KCS) Board of Directors on August 20 declared a regular quarterly dividend of 25 cents per share on the outstanding KCS preferred stock. This dividend is payable on October 1, 2002, to preferred stockholders of record at...
Change in speed limit examined in Amtrak derailment
BALTIMORE -- An Amtrak train was going more than twice as fast as it should have been when it derailed last month because a speed restriction had been prematurely lifted, a federal report said. According to a wire service, more than 100 people were injured when the...
Speed limit mistakenly lifted before derailment
BALTIMORE -- According to the Baltimore Sun, a rail supervisor mistakenly lifted a 25 mph speed limit on a stretch of track in Kensington days before an Amtrak train, traveling at 60 mph, derailed last month in the same area, according to a report released yesterday...
