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Amtrak’s Beech Grove rail yard to lay off 228
INDIANAPOLIS -- Amtrak will lay off 228 employees today from its Beech Grove maintenance facility -- the biggest layoff there in the past decade, reports the Indianapolis Star. After a week of anticipation, workers were to find out this morning exactly who among them...
Amtrak plan glance
WASHINGTON -- Highlights of the proposal the Amtrak Reform Council sent to Congress on Thursday from a wire service: --Amtrak and the National Railroad Passenger Corp., currently the same entity, would be split, and the corporation would oversee a transition of train...
Amtrak should be split three ways, panel says
WASHINGTON -- According to a wire service, an advisory panel recommended an Amtrak restructuring proposal on Thursday that would break the cash-poor railroad into three parts and eventually allow the government to open its routes to private competition. The proposal...
Advisory panel tells Congress that Amtrak should be split
WASHINGTON -- A panel created by Congress in 1997 to advise on the future of Amtrak said today that the railroad should be broken up and that the job of running trains should be opened to competition, reports the New York Times. But most of its members quickly added...
Dog walker halts rail suicide attempt
OAKLEY, Calif. -- Believing his mother was dead, a 36-year-old man lay on the railroad tracks Wednesday, ready to die, according to the Contra Costa Times. But a woman walking her dog saw the Oakley man put his head on the tracks so she flagged down the oncoming...
Opinion: America’s best hope for modern passenger rail system rests with Congress
The following is a statement by Eugene K. Skoropowski, Managing Director of the Capitol Corridor Joint Powers Authority: OAKLAND, Calif. -- The new session of Congress is presented with perhaps the best opportunity to finally make intercity rail passenger service a...
Suit vs. railroads over bridge buried in quagmire
CORINTH, Miss. -- A lawsuit filed by Alcorn County, Miss., against four railroad companies in an attempt to get them to make repairs on five bridges in District 2 is "buried in quagmire," said Bob Krohn of Corinth, who along with a prominent Washington, D.C., law...
CN to hold annual shareholders’ meeting in Halifax
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia -- Canadian National said today its annual meeting of shareholders will be held in Halifax on April 16, 2002, at the World Trade and Convention Centre, 1800 Argyle Street. The meeting will start at 10.30 a.m. (Atlantic Time). CN President and...
Maglev to study revised routes
PITTSBURGH -- Maglev Inc. officials are recommending that two revised routes through Westmoreland County be studied further as the possible path for the high-speed train, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports. One of the "recommended alignments" runs near an...
Union Pacific seeks a payoff from its ties to the Olympics
OMAHA -- Union Pacific Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Dick Davidson stood before 1,200 employees and their families at the Durham Western Heritage Museum in Omaha, the Omaha World-Herald reports. It was Jan. 10 -- a proud occasion for the company and its...
