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Amtrak dining cars as profit centers
(Source: Railway Age opinion column by J. Bruce Richardson, November 29, 2019. Mr. Richardson is Executive Vice President, Passenger Services for Corridor Rail Development Corporation of Chicago.) NEW YORK — One of the great hurrahs of Amtrak dining cars came in the...
Hiawatha ridership numbers grow despite lack of speedy service improvements
(Source: Radio Station WUWM, November 28, 2019) MILWAUKEE, Wisc. — Amtrak is projecting a new record for ridership on its Hiawatha trains between Milwaukee and Chicago. Looking ahead, some modest changes to the service are expected in the next few years, but it isn't...
Bluff collapse north of San Diego disrupts passenger rail service
(Source: San Diego Union-Tribune, December 1, 2019) SAN DIEGO — Passenger rail service on the main line between Los Angeles and San Diego faced interruptions Saturday after a section of the Del Mar bluffs collapsed within a few feet of tracks following heavy rains...
China plans new coal plants, trims support for clean energy
(Source: Associated Press, December 2, 2019) WASHINGTON, D.C. — As world leaders gather in Spain to discuss how to slow the warming of the planet, a spotlight falls on China — the top emitter of greenhouse gases. As China’s economy slows to the lowest level in a...
Warren, Sanders criticize Amtrak’s arbitration policy for passengers
(Source: Politico, November 27, 2019) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Fourteen Senate Democrats, including four presidential candidates, criticized Amtrak's new arbitration policy for passengers in a letter to the CEO of the federally subsidized railroad. Full story: Politico
Union Pacific suing the city of Palestine, Texas, to nullify 150-year-old jobs contract
(Source: Palestine Herald-Press, November 29, 2019) PALESTIN, Texas — Union Pacific Railroad is suing the city of Palestine to scrap a 150-year-old contract that now guarantees the employment of dozens of local residents. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday, alleges the...
No way Conservatives will admit they look foolish for calls to legislate CN strikers back to work
(Source: www.rabble.ca, November 27, 2019) OTTAWA — Now that a tentative agreement in the national strike by 3,200 CN yard workers and train crew members has been reached in collective bargaining as God and the Canada Industrial Relations Board both intended, you'd...
How the CN strike played on the freight market
(Source: Freight Waves, December 1, 2019) TORONTO — The end of the Canadian National strike couldn’t have come soon enough for Canada. Further disruption to the flow of goods – especially canola and wheat exports — could have been devastating to an economy whose...
“It’s the equivalent of being drunk:” Fatigue baked into Canadian rail worker scheduling, experts say
(Source: Toronto Star, December 1, 2019) CALGARY — Fatigue was one of the major factors behind a recent weeklong strike by 3,200 CN workers represented by the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference. According to fatigue experts and past research, railway crews awake for...
STB: U.S. Class I employment decline continued in October
(Source: Progressive Railroading, November 27, 2019) Class Is as of mid-October employed 134,582 people, down 1.67 percent from mid-September's level and down 9.51 percent from October 2018's count, according to Surface Transportation Board (STB) data. All but one of...
