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Brookfield, Blackstone are among bidders for Genesee & Wyoming
(Source: Bloomberg, May 23, 2019) NEW YORK — Affiliates of Brookfield Asset Management Inc., Blackstone Group LP, Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners and EQT Partners are vying to acquire railroad operator Genesee & Wyoming Inc., according to people familiar with the...
U.S. court orders STB to respond to fuel surcharge petition
(Source: S&P Global Platts, May 23, 2019) HOUSTON — A U.S. court has ordered the federal Surface Transportation Board (STB) to respond to a petition filed by the Western Coal Traffic League regarding its safe harbor provisions, a decision that would have significant...
Editorial: Many to be held accountable for Amtrak’s DuPont tragedy
(Source: Tacoma News Tribune, May 25, 2019) TACOMA, Wash. — Call it a crash, or call it a catastrophe. But don’t call the December 2017 Amtrak train derailment near DuPont, which killed three people and injured dozens more, an accident. Full story:...
FRA drops proposed two-person train crew rule
(Source: Duluth News Tribune, May 25, 2019) ST. PAUL, Minn. — Federal rail authorities have decided that railroad car explosions such as the 2013 ones in North Dakota and Quebec do not prove that requiring two people to be aboard oil-carrying trains would make...
FRA ignores written comments in withdrawing proposed safety rule requiring two-person train crews
(Source: DC Velocity, May 24, 2019) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Federal transportation regulators said Thursday that U.S. railroads will not have to meet minimum requirements for the size of train crew staffs, known as "crew redundancy," in a ruling that aligned with rail...
FRA’s decision on crew size undermines rail safety
(Source: AFL-CIO press release, May 25, 2019) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Larry Willis, president of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD), issues this statement in response to the Federal Railroad Administration’s decision not to regulate crew size and to...
Remembering the Chinese railroad workers that built the Transcontinental Railroad and Stanford’s fortune
(Source: Stanford Daily, May 23, 2019) STANFORD, Calif. — In 1969, at the “Golden Spike” centennial celebration of the First Transcontinental Railroad’s completion, the Chinese community nationwide had high hopes that the ceremony would provide an opportunity for the...
Four of six trains to be removed from Amtrak Cascades service after NTSB recommendation
(Source: Television station KIRO 7, May 22, 2019) SEATTLE — The State of Washington will soon remove the type of older train from Amtrak Cascades service that crashed in 2017, killing three people. Of the six Amtrak Cascades trains that run between Eugene, Oregon, and...
Amtrak answers questions but leaves the future of Kansas passenger rail in question
(Source: Radio station KCUR 98.3, May 22, 2019) KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Passenger trains will keep rolling through rural communities in Kansas, for now. But Amtrak still hasn’t committed to operating the long-distance routes that connect small towns to larger cities...
Oregon’s two Senators demand answers from UP on layoffs
(Source: My Columbia Basin, May 22, 2019) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Oregon’s two U.S. senators are demanding Union Pacific Railroad answer questions about the layoffs of nearly 200 people in Hermiston and the damage those job cuts would do to worker safety, transportation...
