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Neighbors deride the rails
SALT LAKE CITY -- This is the scene Union Pacific wants America to see: a three-engine freight train snaking silently through Utah's empty redrock country, according to the Salt Lake Tribune. "Thirty-three thousand miles of timber and steel. From Portland to New...
Tiny Canadian railway demanding access to CN lines
WINNIPEG, Manitoba -- According to a wire service, a landmark hearing began on Monday to decide if a maverick Prairie railway can force Canadian National Railway Co., Canada's largest rail company, to open its lines to competition. "Getting to this public hearing has...
Railways cut greenhouse gases
OTTAWA -- Canada's railways say their emissions of greenhouse gases last year were 3.5 per cent lower than they were in 1990, even though they carried almost 30 per cent more traffic, the Globe and Mail reports. The Railway Association of Canada, association...
FRA steps up safety watch of Amtrak
WASHINGTON -- U.S. regulators have stepped up safety oversight of Amtrak because of the deteriorating financial condition of the nation's only city-to-city passenger rail service, a wire service reports. The Federal Railroad Administration, which oversees rail safety,...
Man gets relief for lack of relief
BERLIN -- A German man desperate to relieve himself for two hours on a packed but toiletless train won $270 compensation for what a court called his torture, a wire service reported. A Frankfurt court ordered Deutsche Bahn (Germany Railways) to pay the man, who walked...
CPR charges for West Coast Express are fair
VANCOUVER, B.C. -- Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) said in a press release its charges for the West Coast Express are fair and market related and reflect the cost of operating passenger commuter service during peak hours on its busiest freight line in North America. In...
Amtrak picks new president
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- David L. Gunn, who headed Washington's Metro system until 1994 when his combative style ran afoul of regional politics, was named president of Amtrak, the Washington Post reported. Gunn, whose appointment becomes effective May 15, will replace...
Transportation Labor honors Workers Memorial Day
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The following statement was issued by Sonny Hall, president of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD), commemorating the April 28 Workers Memorial Day, honoring those who have lost their lives at work and renewing the fight for greater...
Lawsuits from Auto Train derailment to linger
JACKSONVILLE -- The long legal process already has started with a class-action lawsuit filed in federal court in Jacksonville, and another is planned on behalf of passengers in last week's Amtrak derailment in Crescent City that killed four, the Florida Times-Union...
Bombardier breaks off contract talks with IAM
MONTREAL -- Bombardier Inc, the world's third largest civil plane maker, said on Friday it had broken off contract talks with the union representing 7,500 striking Montreal-based aerospace workers because of unacceptable union wage demands, a wire service reports....
