May 17, 2002 | News, Remote Control
CLEVELAND, May 17 — A hearing was held on May 15, 2002 before U. S. District Judge Gottshall on BLE’s Motion to Enforce or Amend the Injunction issued on January 16, 2002 in the Class I Railroads’ action on remote control. At that time, the District...
May 17, 2002 | Headlines, Remote Control, UP
OMAHA — A labor union representing train engineers filed a lawsuit Wednesday to stop the Union Pacific Railroad Co. of Omaha from using remote-controlled locomotives without trained and certified engineers, reports the Omaha World-Herald. The suit was filed by...
May 13, 2002 | News, Remote Control
CLEVELAND, May 13 — BNSF Northlines/MRL General Chairman Dennis Pierce is circulating information that clarifies his committee’s position on the issue of remote control technology and rebuts misleading statements by the UTU. The packet of information that...
April 25, 2002 | News, Remote Control
CLEVELAND, April 25 — In a strongly worded letter to Burlington Northern Santa Fe Chairman Matthew K. Rose, the BNSF-BLE General Chairmen rebutted statements made by Rose regarding the implementation of remote control pilot projects on that railroad. In an...
March 25, 2002 | News, Remote Control
CLEVELAND, March 25 — On Friday, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers filed suit in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against Secretary of Transportation Norman Y. Mineta and Federal Railroad Administrator Allan Rutter over the issue of remote...
March 12, 2002 | Accident, Headlines, Remote Control
MICHIGAN, Ind. — A runaway train plowed through NIPSCO’s Michigan City Generating Station Thursday morning, hitting another locomotive before the second locomotive’s engineer narrowly jumped to safety, according to the Michigan City News Dispatch. The unmanned...
March 11, 2002 | News, Remote Control
CLEVELAND, March 11, 2002 — The Federal Railroad Administration has produced basic guidelines that apply Title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 240 to the operation of remote control locomotives. “The safe handling of remote control locomotives is very...
March 8, 2002 | CSX, Headlines, Remote Control
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Local engineers think CSX Transportation officials are headed down the wrong track by not using locomotive engineers to expand the use of remote controlled locomotives, according to the Montgomery Advertiser. That’s the message the Brotherhood...
January 16, 2002 | News, Remote Control
CLEVELAND, January 16 — A U.S. District judge this morning issued a preliminary injunction preventing the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers from striking over the issue of remote control locomotives. A copy of the injunction is available here as a PDF file....
