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Energy, cloning fights sidetracked
WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans yesterday abruptly dropped a bid to force immediate action on President Bush's energy proposals and anti-cloning legislation, choosing to postpone a showdown rather than invite defeat in the opening skirmish, the Washington Post...
Joliet backs study of Metra extension
CHICAGO -- Joliet has agreed to support a feasibility study intended to entice Metra to extend commuter train service westward into LaSalle County, according to the Chicago Tribune. CSX Railway has 59 miles of track between Joliet and LaSalle-Peru in LaSalle County....
Neighbors help forge rules for Caltrain yard in S.J.
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- San Jose's historic tree-lined Lenzen Avenue area is preparing for a new and unwanted neighbor: a 24-acre maintenance yard that will handle almost two-thirds of the Bay Area's commuter trains, the San Jose Mercury News reports. But residents...
Bank of America weighs bid for Railtrack
LONDON -- Bank of America Corp. is considering a bid for the failed British rail network operator Railtrack Plc, the Observer newspaper said, quoting unnamed senior sources at the bank, a wire service reports. The North Carolina-based bank is interested in buying all...
ARC continues Amtrak bashing
WASHINGTON -- Figures released by the Amtrak Reform Council (ARC) contradict Amtrak's projections that train ridership blossomed in the days and weeks after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a wire service reports. Nationwide ridership was actually lower each day in the...
BNSF should pay taxes, tribes reply to court
POPLAR, Mont. -- The Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribal Nation has filed a reply brief in its appeal of a district court decision denying the tribe authority to tax Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad. The brief was filed in the federal Court of Appeals for the...
Union Pacific completes acquisition of Motor Cargo
NEW YORK -- According to a wire service, Union Pacific Corp., the No. 1 railway operator in the United States, said on Friday that it has acquired a majority stake in transport company Motor Cargo Industries Inc. Union Pacific paid roughly $80 million for a 98.3...
CPR Holiday Train to launch cross-country goodwill voyage
CALGARY, AB -- Canadian Pacific Railway's Canadian Holiday Train begins its spectacular 5,000-km, 15-day journey in Montreal on Friday December 7, taking the battle against hunger to dozens of communities across the country. The 1,200-ft. freight train, decorated in...
U.S. Senate juggles, energy, cloning, railroads
WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans tried to force a debate on controversial energy legislation and a ban on human cloning onto the legislative agenda Thursday by attaching both proposals to a measure to reform railway pensions, reports a wire service. "Three big issues...
Opinion: Liquidating Amtrak doesn’t make sense
SEATTLE -- Amtrak, which will not meet a Dec. 2 deadline for covering its operating costs without government help, now has 90 days to draw up a liquidation plan, according to an editorial in the Seattle Times by Mauris L. Emeka, a Seattle-based Amtrak train attendant...
