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CN doesn’t have to open its lines
OTTAWA -- A federal regulator has sharply criticized Canadian National Railway Co. but stopped short of the ultimate sanction against the company -- allowing someone else to use its tracks, the National Post reports. In a potentially precedent-setting ruling released...
NJ Transit building new station
LITTLE FALLS, N.J. -- NJ Transit is building a new rail station at Montclair State University to provide students and commuters direct service to New York on the Boonton Line, a wire service reported. The $26 million project is due for completion in spring 2004. The...
UPS ‘close’ to Teamsters contract, CEO says
CHICAGO -- United Parcel Service Inc. Chief Executive Michael Eskew said on Tuesday the world's biggest package carrier is "getting close" to a contract with the Teamsters union representing 230,000 workers, a wire service reported. "I'm confident we're going to get...
Tellier cashes in more than $6 million in CN stock
OTTAWA -- Paul Tellier, president and chief executive officer of Canadian National Railway Co., made more than $6 million selling CN stock in May. According to the latest insider trading reports filed with the Ontario Securities Commission, Mr. Tellier exercised...
Railroads raise freight rates
OMAHA -- The Union Pacific Corporation and the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation, the largest railroads in the nation, have raised some rates as much as 13 percent as shipments increase because of the strengthening economy, a wire service reports. Prices will...
BLE, CN agree to labor pact
OTTAWA -- Canadian National Railway Co. and its locomotive engineers in the United States have reached a ground-breaking deal that eliminates all the old work rules in exchange for job security and guaranteed time off for employees, the Globe and Mail reported. In...
NJ senators confident Hudson rail tunnel will be built
TRENTON, N.J. -- New Jersey's two U.S senators remain confident that a second rail tunnel will be built beneath the Hudson River for New Jersey Transit and Amtrak trains, a wire service reports. The project, which has languished on the drawing board for several years,...
Hiring jumps at largest railroads
ATLANTA -- Steeped in his father's serial gripes about the hardships of working on the railroad, Robert McRee had no intention of following in his footsteps, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. "I fought it for a long time," said McRee, 30. After high school, he...
A grand Century, but a birthday more modest
NEW YORK -- Back in the 20th century, it was the train the New York Central rolled out the red carpet for. It streaked from Grand Central Terminal to Chicago in a mere 16 hours. It had maids and maîtres d'hôtel to see that everything was right with its V.I.P. crowd:...
Arrest made in wallet theft of man killed in train wreck
CLARENDON, Texas -- A Hereford man who worked for a company cleaning up after last week's head-on train crash was arrested on June 5 and charged with stealing the wallet of the locomotive engineer who was killed in the wreck, the Amarillo Globe-News reports. Donley...
