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NTSB announces leadership changes
(Source: Progressive Railroading, March 1, 2019) The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) yesterday announced several key leadership appointments, including the selection of Sharon Bryson as managing director. Full story: Progressive Railroading
Editorial: Clear up the confusion about high-speed rail, Gov. Newsom
(Source: Editorial in the San Francisco Chronicle, March 1, 2019) SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — The state’s nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office has a message for Gov. Gavin Newsom: Figure out what you’re doing with high-speed rail, and fast. Full story: San Francisco...
California rail authority calls Trump plan to end high-speed rail funding “rash and unlawful”
(Source: Los Angeles Times, March 4, 2019) LOS ANGELES — The California rail authority delivered a sharp rebuttal Monday to the Trump administration, saying its threat to cancel and rescind $3.5 billion in grants for the state bullet train project is “rash and...
Editorial: Trains must have 2-person crews
(Source: Editorial in the North Platte Telegraph, March 3, 2019) NORTH PLATTE, Neb. — Really, a two-person crew mandate shouldn’t be necessary. Common sense, not to mention common humanity, says it’s inviting senseless tragedy — inside the engine, outside it or both —...
Opinion analysis: Supreme Court rules railroad’s payments to injured workers for lost wages are taxable
(Source: Supreme Court of the United States Blog, March 4, 2019) WASHINGTON, D.C. — A laid-off railroad worker goes head to head with the world’s fourth-largest publicly traded corporation over a $3,765 payment that — the worker says — is owed to him because the...
UE strike against Wabtec continues in Erie, Pa.
(Source: Erie News Now, March 4, 2019) ERIE, Pa. — Striking UE Local 506 and Local 618 employees are taking turns walking the picket lines, then warming up with a meal in the union hall. Over and over on the picket line they chant, "Who are we? UE. What do we want? A...
STB: Class I workforce down a bit in January
(Source: Progressive Railroading, March 4, 2019) U.S. Class Is employed 146,556 employees in mid-January, down 0.72 percent compared with December 2018's level, but up 1.54 percent compared with January 2018's count, according to Surface Transportation Board (STB)...
New Amtrak sign in place at 30th Street Station
(Source: Television station WPVI, February 27, 2019) PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — The new Amtrak schedule sign is in place at 30th Street Station, but it isn't working quite yet. Engineers tested it out and determined that it still needs some adjustments. Full story:...
W.Va.’s New River Train trips will not run this year, official says
(Source: Herald-Dispatch, February 28, 2019) HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — While there was still some hope that the New River Train might run in 2019, that hope appears to be gone. Chris Lockwood, the general manager of the Collis P. Huntington Railroad Historical Society Inc.,...
Passengers bonded on Amtrak train that was stuck in Oregon snowstorm
(Source: Associated Press, February 27, 2019) SALEM, Ore. — An Amtrak train with almost 200 people aboard hit downed trees during a blizzard and got stranded in the Oregon mountains for a day and a half, but passengers and crew banded together during the ordeal that...
