January 12, 2009 | CN, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(The following story by Guy Tridgell appeared on the Southtown Star website on January 11.) CHICAGO — Two sets of railroad tracks meet at East End Avenue and 23rd Street in Chicago Heights in an area known for aging homes and vacant brick warehouses. It is an area...
January 12, 2009 | CN, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(The following editorial appeared on the Daily Herald website on January 12.) CHICAGO — We hope Metra Executive Director Phil Pagano is correct. He told transportation writer Marni Pyke in Sunday’s Daily Herald that the STAR line – the suburb-to-suburb...
January 12, 2009 | CN, Headlines
(The following story by Laura Michaels appeared on the New Lenox Patriot website on January 12.) NEW LENOX, Ill. — New Lenox officials are determined to continue their fight against Canadian National Railway’s purchase of the EJ&E Railroad, Village...
January 9, 2009 | Canada, CN, Headlines
(The following story by Patrick White appeared on the Globe and Mail website on January 9.) WINNIPEG — Situated in an industrial area 20 minutes east of downtown Winnipeg and populated by burly men in steel-toes and hard hats, Canadian National Railway’s...
January 9, 2009 | CN, Headlines
(The following story by Andre Salles appeared on the St. Charles Sun website on January 9.) CHICAGO — On Christmas Eve, the federal Surface Transportation Board approved the $300 million sale of the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railroad to Canadian National Railway...
January 8, 2009 | CN, Headlines
(The following column by Bill Mego appeared on the Naperville Sun website on January 8.) CHICAGO — Would you say that, because a community is used to flooding, no more flood controls are needed? Well, that’s the kind of logic the Surface Transportation Board...
January 7, 2009 | CN, Headlines
(The following appeared on the Daily Herald website on January 7.) CHICAGO — Barrington’s request to federal regulators to delay a merger between CN and the EJ&E railroads is just too long, lawyers for the railway say. CN Tuesday asked the U.S. Surface...
January 7, 2009 | CN, Headlines
(The following story by Guy Tridgell appeared on the Southtown Star website on January 7.) CHICAGO — The legal opposition to the Canadian National Railway’s plans for the EJ&E Railroad continues to grow. Will County has filed paperwork with the federal...
January 6, 2009 | CN, Headlines
(The following story by Michael Gilbert appeared on the New Lenox Patriot website on January 6.) NEW LENOX, Ill. — New Lenox will appeal the U.S. Surface Transportation Board’s decision to approve the sale of the EJ&E Railroad to Canadian National Railway,...
January 6, 2009 | CN, Headlines
(The following story by Eric Peterson and Marni Pyke appeared on the Chicago Daily Herald website on January 6.) CHICAGO — The village of Barrington filed two court actions Monday in an attempt to stop the Canadian National-EJ&E railroad deal. Barrington filed a...
