October 10, 2013 | Headlines, Short Line
(Source: Bangor Daily News, October 9, 2013) AUGUSTA, Maine — A state rail safety review Gov. Paul LePage ordered in response to a Canadian rail disaster that killed 47 people in July found no significant safety flaws in Maine’s 1,150-mile rail system, officials said...
October 4, 2013 | CSX, Headlines, Short Line
(Source: Courier-Journal, October 3, 2013) COLUMBUS, Ind. — The Louisville & Indiana Railroad, which owns a rail line that cuts through southern Indiana, is planning a $90 million project to replace an aging bridge and make improvements over more than 100 miles...
September 26, 2013 | CP, Headlines, Short Line
(Source: Associated Press, September 25, 2013) PIERRE, S.D. — The U.S. Secretary of Agriculture is backing South Dakota in the state’s effort to make sure the owner of the old Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad has fulfilled its promises to upgrade the line...
September 9, 2013 | Headlines, Short Line, Whistleblower
(Source: U.S. Department of Labor press release, September 3, 2013) BOSTON, Mass. — The U.S. Department of Labor has ordered Pan Am Railways Inc. to pay $50,000 in compensatory and punitive damages, as well as take corrective action, on behalf of an injured worker....
September 6, 2013 | Canada, Headlines, Short Line
(Source: Associated Press, September 5, 2013) PORTLAND, Maine — The process of selling the bankrupt railroad whose runaway train killed 47 people in Quebec is underway and the company’s trustee hopes to complete the deal by year’s end. Montreal, Maine...
August 8, 2013 | Headlines, Short Line
(Source: Montreal Gazette, August 7, 2013) MONTREAL — MONTREAL — To a town that experienced a shocking event a month ago, Montreal, Maine & Atlantic’s filing for protection from their creditors was anything but. Nicolas Carette, a spokesperson for Lac-Mégantic,...
August 8, 2013 | Headlines, Short Line
(Source: Montreal Gazette, August 7, 2013) MONTREAL — MONTREAL — In precarious shape financially even before the Lac-Mégantic crisis, the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic railway filed for creditor protection in both Canada and the U.S. on Wednesday, just over a month...
August 7, 2013 | Headlines, Short Line, War on Workers
(Source: Portland Press Herald, August 7, 2013) PORTLAND, Maine — A bill submitted by Maine’s U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud that would prohibit railroads from using one-man train crews will face a fight from the industry, which says it is an unnecessary measure aimed...
August 6, 2013 | Canada, Headlines, Short Line
(Source: Montreal Gazette, August 6, 2013) LAC-MÉGANTIC — Rail traffic may begin running through Lac-Mégantic again this week, but the Montreal, Maine and Atlantic railway has decided it will stop hauling oil after one of its trains derailed and exploded here last...
June 7, 2013 | Headlines, Short Line
(Source: The Day, May 31, 2013) NEW LONDON — The state will invest more than $8 million to improve and modernize its freight rail system through grants to four rail companies. The commercial rail lines that will receive the funding are New England Central Railroad,...
