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Senate directing Amtrak to inspect frequent delays on Chicago-Carbondale route
(Source: Television station KVFS, July 25, 2018) CARBONDALE, Ill. — According to Illinois Senator Dick Durbin, the Amtrak route from Chicago-Champaign-Carbondale is one of the worst in the country as far as having trains arrive on time. On July 25, an amendment passed...
Teamsters speak out at Joint Select Committee pension hearing
(Source: International Brotherhood of Teamsters press release, July 25, 2018) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Teamsters joined lawmakers at a hearing of the Joint Select Committee on Solvency of Multiemployer Pension Plans to make their voices heard on the need to protect...
Widowed by a train accident, woman asks railroad ‘Why are you waiting’ on PTC?
(Source: NBC Dallas-Fort Worth, July 25, 2018) DALLAS — When Claudia Souser talks about the "journey," she doesn't mean that day on Sept. 12, 2008, when her husband Doyle boarded Train 111 of the Metrolink commuter line in Los Angeles. Full story: www.nbcdfw.com
CN tops profit estimates in Q2 2018 on higher freight volumes
(Source: Reuters, July 24, 2018) MONTREAL — Canadian National Railway Co. on Tuesday reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit and raised its forecast for full-year adjusted earnings as the railroad moved higher volumes of commodities including grains and...
After a strong quarter, NS management is asked: Why aren’t you more like CSX?
(Source: Freight Waves, July 25, 2018) NEW YORK — The strong earnings report issued last week by CSX is reverberating through the quarterly release of class I railroad earnings, which is now at an end. Last week, CSX reported an operating ratio of 58.6%. Wednesday, in...
BLET urges caution on rail shipments of spent nuclear fuel
(Source: Hobbs News-Sun, July 20, 2018. Brother Scott Palmer, Chairman of the BLET’s Oregon State Legislative Board, is also Assistant Coordinator of the BLET Safety Task Force.) HOBBS, N.M. — When it’s about radioactivity or nuclear power, it’s going to be...
Permitting problems put brakes on key U.S.-Canadian transportation projects
(Source: Spokesman-Review, July 24, 2018) SPOKANE, Wash. — Degraded infrastructure, unsteady political support for financing transportation projects and regulatory differences between American states and Canadian provinces dominated discussion Monday during the...
Operation Lifesaver awards $205,525 for rail safety public awareness campaigns in 16 states
(Source: Operation Lifesaver press release, July 24, 2018) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Operation Lifesaver, Inc. (OLI), in partnership with the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), announced that $205,525 in grants have been awarded to 16 state Operation Lifesaver programs....
CN will have more capacity on trains to deliver crude in late 2018: CEO
(Source: Reuters, July 25, 2018) MONTREAL — Canadian National Railway Co. will have more overall capacity on its trains in the back half of 2018, and it expects to take on more shipments of crude by rail, Chief Executive Jean-Jacques Ruest said on Tuesday. Full story:...
T&I Chair Shuster introduces draft of infrastructure plan
(Source: Progressive Railroading, July 24, 2018) House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) has introduced a draft of an infrastructure plan that would be funded in part by an increase fuel taxes. Full story: Progressive...
