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North Dakota governor, BNSF to discuss rate issue
CHICAGO -- A battle is heating up in North Dakota over the rates that the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway charges to haul wheat, the state's top crop, reports a wire service. North Dakota Gov. John Hoeven is scheduled to meet with BNSF executives on Thursday to...
Amtrak and D.C. police team up for drug busts
NEW YORK -- Cooperation between Amtrak and District police has helped keep more than a half million dollars in drugs off the streets of New York City. The two agencies worked together twice in 24 hours to pull off major drug busts at Union Station, reports WJLA. Two...
CSXT announces support for regional airport project
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- CSX Transportation Inc. (CSXT) on Wednesday announced its support for the proposed regional airport for southwestern West Virginia, according to a company press release. “In this fast-moving economy, businesses expect to have efficient, reliable...
Grupo Mexico confident of railroad merger approval
MEXICO CITY -- Mexican copper giant Grupo Mexico said on January 30 it was confident the government will approve the merger of its railroad properties with those of industrial and retail conglomerate Grupo Carso, despite complaints by a competitor that the combination...
‘Billions needed’ to run Railtrack
LONDON -- The administrator to Railtrack PLC says the troubled company will need significantly more government money than the £3.5bn it has already borrowed, according to BBC News. The government loan was paid to Ernst & Young [E&Y] to cover the period to 31 March,...
Teamsters to begin contract negotiations with UPS
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is preparing to open negotiations with United Parcel Service (UPS) on the largest single employer collective bargaining agreement in the United States, the union announced in a press release....
ALPA critical of Philly security screening
PHILADELPHIA -- The US Airways unit of the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) has determined that US Airways is allowing security operations at Philadelphia International Airport to conduct inconsistent and arbitrary security screening procedures, which challenge and...
Minot cleanup effort continues
MINOT, N.D. -- A Canadian Pacific Railway official said that the railroad is kicking up its cleanup efforts several notches at the site west of Minot where a CP train derailed Jan. 18, the Minot Daily News reports. Darcie Park, a public relations officer with the...
NTSB to set cause of rail-truck crash
BOURBONNAIS, Ill. -- According to the Chicago Tribune, the probable cause of the fatal accident involving an Amtrak train and a steel-hauling truck near Bourbonnais three years ago will be determined at a public hearing Feb. 5 in Washington, officials at the National...
Michigan tests high-speed rail
CHICAGO -- For the first time in more than a generation, trains in the Midwest are whisking passengers along at 90 m.p.h., and Amtrak officials say the experiment on a 45-mile stretch in Michigan could become the model for a high-speed rail system throughout the...
