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CSX names Thordahl Resident Vice President
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Jeffrey Niels Thordahl has been named CSX resident vice president-state relations for South Carolina, announced Arnie Havens, senior vice president-government affairs. Thordahl succeeds Daniel S. Green, who recently was named president of South...
Opinion: Putting rail back on track
NEW YORK -- In a sense, Amtrak's most adamant critics are right, according to an editorial in the New York Times. The United States cannot afford to continue like this, cutting its national railroad a check for one hundred million dollars here, a quarter-billion...
Railroads lag on track safety, report says
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- According to the Baton Rouge Advocate, the massive train derailment in Eunice, La., two years ago prompted the National Transportation Safety Board to recommend that track inspectors revise their schedules and pay more attention to routes carrying...
CSX office relocation not likely to raise profile
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- If CSX Transportation's parent company relocates its headquarters to Jacksonville as railroad industry analysts have predicted, the move would be largely uneventful, city and industry observers said. Parent CSX Corp. Inc. is already well-invested...
Amtrak bailout loan proposed
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Bush administration has proposed a federal loan package of up to $170 million to keep Amtrak running through September, Transportation Department officials said on Friday. A wire service reports that the loan plan is the second stage of a...
Freight traffic up during holiday week on U.S. railroads
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. freight railroads reported increased freight traffic during the week ended July 6, comparison with the comparable week last year, the Association of American Railroads (AAR) said on July 11. Carload freight totaled 280,842 cars, up 4.2 percent...
Transportation fatalities increased in 2001
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Transportation fatalities in the United States last year increased 0.6 percent over the total for 2000, according to preliminary figures released by the National Transportation Safety Board on July 12. For the year 2001, preliminary figures show...
Bullet train plans shoot through variables
LAKELAND, Fla. -- Proposed routes for an Orlando-to-Miami bullet train varied widely as the Florida High Speed Rail Authority heard proposals Thursday, a wire service reported. In central Florida, two potential alignments parallel Florida's Turnpike while another runs...
Playin’ on the Railroad
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Flashing lights, pulsating sounds and eye-catching videos are not what you would expect of an almost 50-year-old museum, the Washington Post reports. Yet they are part of the new orientation center at the B&O Railroad Museum, a small part of its...
UPS earnings fall as labor talks weigh
ATLANTA -- United Parcel Service Inc., the world's No. 1 package delivery company, on Friday said second-quarter earnings fell as domestic package volume was hurt by economic uncertainty and its unsettled labor situation, according to a wire service. UPS, which...
