January 16, 2003 | Headlines, Remote Control
(The following story by Leeann Kossey was published on the website of Amarillo television station KAMR on January 15.) AMARILLO, Texas — Is your safety at risk? Some locomotive engineers are worried about our safety after Burlington Northern Santa Fe started...
January 14, 2003 | Headlines, Remote Control
(The following story by Virginia Baldwin Gilbert was published in the January 13 online issue of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.) ST. LOUIS — Leaders of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers say they’re outraged at an arbitrator’s decision to award...
January 13, 2003 | Headlines, Remote Control
(The following story by Tom Cherveny was published in the January 13 issue of the West Central Tribune.) WILLMAR, Minn. — Locomotives will be rolling through the rail yard and across three roadways in Willmar without engineers at their controls in the cabins....
January 13, 2003 | Headlines, Remote Control
(The following story by Virginia Baldwin Gilbert appeared in the January 10 issue of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.) ST. LOUIS — Members of the United Transportation Union have the right to operate remote-controlled locomotives in U.S. rail yards, an arbitrator...
January 10, 2003 | Headlines, Remote Control
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Remote-controlled freight trains, a controversial new technology already banned in some cities and blamed for several deaths, made their debut in Bakersfield Thursday amid warnings from local railroad engineers, reports the Bakersfield...
January 7, 2003 | BNSF, Headlines, Remote Control
(The following story by Greg Rohloff was published in the January 7 online edition of the Amarillo Globe-News.) AMARILLO, Texas — Burlington Northern Santa Fe began training classes Monday as a first step toward the introduction of remote-control locomotives in...
January 2, 2003 | Headlines, Remote Control
MARYSVILLE, Mich. — Most people’s idea of a remote-control train likely is a miniature set run by an excited boy pushing rail- car speeds to the limit, the Times Herald reported. In some ways, that image has come true. Rail cars can be operated via remote...
January 2, 2003 | Headlines, Remote Control
ST. LOUIS — Two unions and the nation’s six largest rail carriers are wrangling over new technology in switching yards, reports the St. Louis Post Dispatch. The unions aren’t protesting the introduction of the technology. They’re squabbling...
December 20, 2002 | News, Remote Control
CLEVELAND, December 20 — The City Council of Marysville, Mich., unanimously adopted a resolution calling for improved federal safety regulations to govern the operation of remote control locomotives. The December 2 resolution asks the Federal Railroad...
December 19, 2002 | Headlines, Remote Control
SAN ANTONIO — Railroad engineers gathered Wednesday to warn the public about hazards they say will result from converting to remote-control switching operations, scheduled to begin locally next year, according to the San Antonio Express-News. Union Pacific...
