September 5, 2003 | Headlines, Remote Control
(The Tullahoma News published the following story by Brian Justice on its website on September 4.) TULLAHOMA, Tenn. — Although CSX Transportation Inc. says remote control trains are safe, safety advocates would beg to differ. Some trains in Tennessee are being...
September 2, 2003 | Headlines, Remote Control
(The following article by Bonna de la Cruz appeared on the Tennessean website on September 2.) NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Some trains in Tennessee are being run by remote control in rail yards and sometimes cross neighboring roads, which is a growing concern for...
August 27, 2003 | CSX, Headlines, Remote Control
(The Erwin Record published the following story by Doug Janz on August 26.) ERWIN, Tenn. — A resolution passed earlier this year by the Unicoi County Commission has led CSX Transportation to refuse public parking on its property for this fall’s Unicoi...
August 21, 2003 | Headlines, Remote Control
(The Deseret Morning News published the following story by Alan Edwards on its website on August 20.) SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — Progress is chipping away one more piece of railroad Americana. First, they take away the puffing and steaming of steam locomotives,...
August 20, 2003 | Headlines, Remote Control
(The Associated Press circulated the following story on August 19.) NORTH PLATTE — A switch failure caused two Union Pacific locomotives to derail inside the nation’s largest rail yard. It happened Monday night when a switch failed to divert one of the...
August 19, 2003 | Headlines, Remote Control
(The following article by Cathy McKitrick was posted on the Ogden Standard-Examiner website on August 19. Chris Gallagher is local chairman of BLE Division 374 in Ogden, Utah.) OGDEN, Utah — To date, officials in 24 cities and 10 counties across America have...
August 19, 2003 | Headlines, Remote Control
(The Bismarck Tribune published the following story by Angie Buckley on its website on August 19.) BISMARCK, N.D. — At the request of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, the Mandan City Commission will consider a resolution forbidding railroads from...
August 7, 2003 | Headlines, Remote Control
(Trimble issued the following news release on August 7.) SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Trimble today that it has been chosen as the primary Global Positioning System (GPS) timing supplier for Cattron-Theimeg, Inc.’s next generation ACCUSPEED(TM) locomotive radio...
August 1, 2003 | Headlines, Remote Control
(LaborNotes.org published the following story by Ron Hume in the August 2003 issue of its online magazine.) DETROIT, Mich. — In 2001, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), the government agency charged with overseeing safety on the nation’s railroads,...
July 30, 2003 | Headlines, KCS, Remote Control
(The following article by Penny Brown Roberts appeared in the Baton Rouge Advocate on July 30.) BATON ROUGE, La. — A Kansas City Southern Railway switchman run over by a remote-controlled locomotive in March and dragged down the tracks is suing the company for...
