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Flight attendants hold rally; CHAOS could hit before Labor Day
MILWAUKEE, Wisc. -- Midwest Express flight attendants, in conjunction with the Milwaukee County Labor Council, will be holding a rally to show support for the flight attendants' struggle to secure a first contract with the airline. The rally will be held at 5311 S....
UK rail workers call three strikes in August
LONDON -- According to a wire service, train workers said Monday they will stage three 48-hour strikes against a northern rail network next month in a dispute over pay. Members of the Rail Maritime and Transport union at First North Western will walk out Aug. 5-6,...
Automatic train protection system achieves safety certification
PITTSBURGH, Pa. -- Union Switch & Signal Inc. (US&S) has been notified that the automatic train protection (ATP) system components it is providing to the Copenhagen Metro in Denmark have been certified as meeting the safety standards of the Comite Europeen de...
Subway lines disrupted 9/11 are to resume in September
NEW YORK -- Four subway lines serving lower Manhattan will go back into service in September, a year after they were blocked by tons of rubble from the World Trade Center -- and two months earlier than expected, a wire service reported. "This is the good news story...
Opinion: BNSF must keep helping Rathdrum
SPOKANE, Wash. -- Rathdrum's request to Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway is reasonable: If your nearby refueling depot is going to attract more trains, please sink or elevate your tracks so you won't destroy our downtown, according to an editorial in the...
New funds for Amtrak may help Indianapolis yard
INDIANAPOLIS -- Beech Grove rail workers who were laid off in February received good news this week as Congress moved to give Amtrak financial relief, reports the Indianapolis Star. The Senate Appropriations Committee approved $1.2 billion in spending on the passenger...
Minot cleanup may take 3 years, official says
MINOT, N.D. -- It could take more than three years for the Canadian Pacific Railway to remove all of the ammonia-laden groundwater in the area of a Jan. 18 derailment, Minot's public works director said. A wire service reported that the railroad is removing about 15...
Wreck leaves Amtrak in a bind
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- When Amtrak's Auto Train derailed in Florida on April 18, a top Amtrak official said the corporation was "one wreck away" from losing so many passenger cars that it could not keep all its long-distance trains running, the Washington Post reported....
Passengers recount train escape
KENSINGTON, Md. -- A wire service reports that one minute, 59-year-old Elnora Fortson was reading a poem on an Amtrak train bound for Washington. The next, she was lying on the floor of a tilted rail car with another woman on top of her. Fortson, like dozens of other...
Amtrak train wreck injures 97
KENSINGTON, Md. -- A double-decker Amtrak train hurtling toward the end of a 19-hour journey from Chicago derailed in this Washington suburb under a blistering sun today, leaving 97 passengers injured, 6 of them seriously, according to the New York Times. The 13-car...
