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CN seeks to boost sales, service
MONTREAL -- After several tumultuous years of cost cuts and consolidation, Canadian National Railway Co. now hopes to buoy sales with better service, CN president and chief executive officer Paul Tellier said in a Globe and Mail news article. "The railroad sector has...
FEC expecting commuters
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The economy has slowed Florida East Coast Railway, but the St. Augustine-based company is right on track to have commuter trains on its line, the Florida Times-Union reports. Starting next year or in 2004, Amtrak is expected to use part of...
Following train crash, British government calls for change in rail management
LONDON -- The government called for a fundamental change Monday in the way Britain's railway lines are maintained after an interim report blamed a recent deadly train derailment on a faulty track-switching mechanism, a wire service reports. Since the high-speed train...
Teamsters at U.P.S. agree to plan for a strike
WASHINGTON -- The International Brotherhood of Teamsters announced yesterday that its members had voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike against the United Parcel Service if no new contract was reached by Aug. 1, according to the New York Times. The union said 93...
A rail model for urban congestion?
LOS ANGELES -- Running through a traffic-clogged area on this city's south side is a brand-new $2.4 billion public works project that was completed on time, on budget, with only a moderate amount of federal money, with almost no public opposition and with a huge...
DM&E: State law threatens expansion project
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- The Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad's expansion could derail because of a state law on eminent domain, the company's president testified at a court hearing, a wire service reported. Kevin Schieffer said he can't start looking for investors,...
Train runs over foot of railroad worker
COSHOCTON, Ohio -- An employee of Ohio Central Railroad Inc. was transported by MedFlight to the Ohio State University Medical Center after his foot was run over by a train car, the Coshocton Tribune reports. Matt S. Lingo, 33, of West Lafayette, had just finished...
British crash may not be accident
LONDON -- A train crash that killed seven people this month may have been caused by a saboteur who loosened several nuts in a track-switching mechanism, a rail maintenance contractor said in comments reported Saturday. The Times of London and the Daily Express quoted...
Suit over remote-control train devices
DENVER -- The Union Pacific Corporatoin's rail unit has been sued by the locomotive engineers union, which claimed "a serious safety threat" from use of remote-control equipment to move trains in freight yards, a wire service reported. The Brotherhood of Locomotive...
Few answers found in Auto Train probe
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The federal agency investigating last month's Amtrak derailment in Crescent City said yesterday it is studying three possible causes of the accident that killed four people, the Florida Times-Union reports. The National Transportation Safety...
