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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...
Senate approves bill to invest rail funds
WASHINGTON -- The Senate today passed a measure under which a $15 billion railroad retirement fund would be invested in stocks and bonds for the first time. Critics said the measure would increase the federal deficit and unduly put tax dollars at risk, according to...
Probe of train collision fails to turn up cause
DAVISBURG, Mich. -- It's been nearly three weeks and investigators admit they still don't know what caused a head-on collision of two Canadian National Railroad freight trains Nov. 15, which killed two workers and injured two others, reports the Detriot News. "It...
Locomotive engineer relives horror
WATERFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- Allen Yash's family believe the Fenton man is lucky to be alive after surviving a horrific head-on train crash. But the 52-year-old railroad veteran has encountered tragedy before -- on the same track -- during his 32-year career. Yash,...
Amtrak’s survival much in doubt
LOS ANGELES -- Aboard a swift-moving Amtrak train, Los Angeles lawyer Robert Krasney whipped out a leather briefcase, scanned his morning paperwork and gazed at a stretch of freeway in Orange County, the Los Angeles Times reports. "See that?" he said, pointing to the...
Opinion: Romance with the rails takes on a star-crossed look
LOS ANGELES -- Over the course of this evening, a dozen trains will be pulling out of Union Station. So it says on the "Departures" board, posted at the head of the deep catacomb of concourses. But let's not mince words: Of those dozen, 10 are merely train wannabes,...
U.S. Cyber Chief to map infrastructure for security
WASHINGTON -- According to a wire service, the U.S. government plans to develop a model of the nation's railroads, gas pipelines, telecommunications networks and other “critical infrastructures” to better understand how they affect each other, the nation's top...
Feds want more data on n-waste rail spur
SALT LAKE CITY -- According to the Salt Lake Tribune, Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt and the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance often find themselves at odds over wildlands, but their shared opposition to storing nuclear-plant waste in Utah has put them on the same side of the...
UP among best
OMAHA -- Union Pacific Railroad ranked 18th out of 75 Fortune 200 companies in Money magazine's best company benefits survey, the Omaha World-Herald reports. The companies were ranked on several factors, including the generosity of nonunion benefit plans for mid- to...
City, CSX reach tentative deal on crossing closure
JACKSONVILLE -- An improperly closed railroad crossing that irked northwest Jacksonville neighbors for 3 1/2 years will remain barricaded -- for now -- under a deal by CSX Transportation and City Hall, the Florida Times-Union reports. "What's that going to do for us?"...
