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One killed, one hurt in collision of train, ATV
BALTIMORE -- One person was killed and another was seriously injured on December 8 when an Amtrak passenger train and an all-terrain vehicle collided on railroad tracks cutting through a residential neighborhood in Baltimore County's Rosedale neighborhood, the...
Crash site reportedly popular for ATVs
BALTIMORE -- Thomas Crowley Jr. knew that his son liked to go four-wheeling along the railroad tracks in Chesaco Park but never worried too much about it. After all, Crowley said, he used to do the same thing when he was a kid, 20 years ago, the Baltimore Sun reports....
Canadian National grain train derails in Manitoba
WINNIPEG, Manitoba -- Crews in southern Manitoba were working on December 7 to repair a section of railway after a late-night freight-train derailment, a wire service reports. “Between the detours that we have available and the relatively short time that it will take...
Amtrak Acela to reach one million passenger mark
WASHINGTON -- Amtrak's high-speed train service between Washington and Boston is expected to pass the million-passenger mark sometime this month after a year of operation, reports a wire service. Acela Express -- billed as America's first high-speed train, capable of...
Rail efforts seen key to traffic relief
EXETER, N.H. -- Thirty-five years after regular passenger trains disappeared from southern New Hampshire, they are slated to rumble into town again this week, the Boston Globe reports. This Friday, the Amtrak ''Downeaster'' will make its inaugural 114-mile run from...
Ballots mailed to flight attendants for largest union election in airline history
WASHINGTON -- Today, the National Mediation Board will mail ballots to Delta Air Lines flight attendants for the largest union election in airline history. The Delta vote is also the largest private-sector union election in more than 30 years, with nearly 20,000...
Bill helps railroad retirees
LINCOLN, Neb. -- Right down to the wire, Scott Rezek and his sheet metal workers union members were making the phones ring in the offices of Nebraska's U.S. senators, the Lincoln Journal Star reports. Rezec, his union colleagues and about a million other railroaders...
Senate OKs partial privatization of rail pensions
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Senate voted overwhelmingly yesterday to allow the $15.3 billion railroad retirement system to invest in the stock market for the first time, clearing the way for final approval of the legislation despite controversy over its potential cost to...
Senate votes 90-9 to pass railroad retirement bill
WASHINGTON -- Thousands of American railroaders will receive improved retirement benefits under legislation approved Wednesday by the Senate, the Omaha World-Herald reports. On a 90-9 vote, senators approved a railroad retirement bill to allow rail companies and labor...
Senate vote a victory for rail workers, families
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The following statement was issued on December 5 by Sonny Hall, President of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO, after the United States Senate voted 90-9 to approve the Railroad Retirement and Survivors’ Improvement Act of 2001. "This...
