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Reno officials to decide fate of train trench project
RENO -- The Reno City Council is set to decide today whether the controversial $264 million train trench project lives or dies, the Reno Gazette-Journal reports. In what is expected to be a marathon meeting, the council can: decide to award a $170.7 million...
Metra’s Electric seen as a model line running again
CHICAGO -- Even though it took four days for trains on Metra's Electric line to resume a normal schedule Monday after a derailment knocked out power last week, railroad experts said Chicago's only electric commuter line represents what rail travel should be in the...
Opinion: Rails are better than concrete
NEW YORK -- If Ronald Reagan had gotten his way, Amtrak would have been liquidated in the early 1990s, according to an editorial in New York's Newsday. It was a bad idea then and it's a worse idea now. Recent events - including the suspension of all air travel in the...
DOT proposes another loan to Amtrak
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Bush administration has proposed lending Amtrak up to $170 million to keep the national passenger railroad running through September, Transportation Department officials said on July 12. A wire service reports that the loan would be the second...
Work begins to clear Wisc. derailment
ALLENTON, Wis. -- A crane was brought in to help clear nearly three dozen freight cars that derailed, some of them catching fire, a wire service reported. A 107-car Canadian National Railway train carrying hazardous materials derailed Monday, sending 34 cars off the...
Train derails in Wisc.
ALLENTON, Wis. -- According to a wire service, a freight train derailed Monday and at least three cars carrying lumber, waxes and plastics caught fire, officials said. One of the 34 cars that derailed was carrying potash, a moderately hazardous chemical, said Allenton...
Remote control controversy at KCS
SHREVEPORT, La. -- Technology is causing controversy for a local railroad, according to Shreveport television station KSLA. Kansas City Southern has begun installing a remote control system at its yard. On July 11, dozens of engineers protested the move, saying it...
Fatigued pilots kept airborne, union says
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The union representing America West Airline's 1,800 pilots says the carrier's scheduling policies are forcing exhausted pilots to fly, a wire service reported. The Air Line Pilots Association said a policy where pilots aren't paid if fatigue keeps...
Hoffa: UPS must act to stem loss of business
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- With contract talks in an "intense and critical phase," Teamsters Union President James Hoffa said on Friday it was up to United Parcel Service to stem its business losses from shippers worried about a strike, a wire service reported. "The company...
Action Alert: Tell Verizon to provide Justice for Janitors
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Eight janitors who clean Verizon's Silver Spring, Maryland building were fired recently. Their offense -- uniting coworkers to win better wages and benefits. Verizon should insist that Service Solutions treat janitors fairly and allow them to join...
