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Obama administration rejects Walker’s request for rail funding
(The following appeared on the Appleton Post Crescent website on June 6, 2011.) APPLETON, Wisc. — Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s plans for upgrading passenger rail service between Milwaukee and Chicago have been derailed in Washington. Democratic President Barack...
DOT encourages American production of steel rails for streetcars
(The U.S. Department of Transportation issued the following on June 6, 2011.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Transportation today hosted a roundtable discussion in Washington with transportation, manufacturing and steel industry leaders to discuss a plan...
Ridership up on Amtrak’s Heartland Flyer route
(The following appeared on the NBC Dallas-Fort Worth television station website on June 6, 2011.) FORT WORTH, Texas — Amtrak's Heartland Flyer route is seeing more people riding the rails then ever before. The service between Oklahoma City and Fort Worth started in...
New York group endorses CSX plan for higher rail speed
(The following appeared on the Albany Times-Union website on June 7, 2011.) ALBANY, N.Y. — The state's major passenger rail advocacy group, in an effort to get tens of millions of dollars worth of stalled rail projects rolling across upstate, has endorsed CSX...
Editorial: Case for high-speed rail grows only stronger
(The following editorial appeared on the Sacramento Bee website on June 7, 2011.) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The last time many Californians thought about high-speed rail was in the voting booth. On that day, Nov. 4, 2008, more than 6 million of us voted to tell the state...
Massachusetts governor lauds CSX’s Worcester project
(The following appeared on the Worcester Telegram & Gazette website on June 6, 2011.) WORCESTER, Mass — Ground was broken this morning on the $100 million expansion of the CSX freight yard between Shrewsbury and Franklin streets, culminating what had been a long and...
Norfolk Southern breaks ground on McCalla hub
(The following appeared on the Birmingham News website on June 6, 2011.) McCALLA, Ala. — Norfolk Southern officials broke ground this morning on the railroad company's $97.5 million hub being built on 316 acres in McCalla. Wick Moorman, chief executive of Norfolk...
Union Pacific wins soy customer survey
(Union Pacific issued the following press release on June 2, 2011.) ANKENY, Iowa — Union Pacific was selected as the top performing railroad by leading U.S. agricultural shippers in the second annual Soy Transportation Coalition (STC) Rail Customer Satisfaction Index....
AAR names Knight chief lobbyist
(The following appeared on The Journal of Commerce website on June 3, 2011.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Association of American Railroads will have a new person serving as its top lobbyist, as Laurie Knight will take the post of senior vice president of government affairs...
New mediator to join the NMB
(The National Mediation Board issued the following on June 3, 2011.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Mediation Board (NMB) is pleased to announce that Andy Nordgren has accepted a position as a Mediator for the agency. In this capacity, he will mediate Airline and...
NS, CSX to break ground on intermodal projects
(The following appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on June 3, 2011.) On Monday, Norfolk Southern Corp. plans to hold a groundbreaking ceremony for a $97.5 million intermodal terminal in McCalla, Ala. Slated to open in 2012, the 316-acre Birmingham...
Virginia commuters waiting for the promise of high-speed rail
(The following appeared on the Washington Post website on June 4, 2011.) RICHMOND, Va. — At 6 each morning, Tom Herbert, a software engineer from Richmond, boards the No. 86 train at the Staples Mill station and begins his 2-hour-35-minute commute to Northern...
Texas shale work benefits railroads
(The following appeared on the Houston Chronicle website on June 4, 2011.) HOUSTON, Texas — Wherever oil and natural gas comes out of the ground, plenty of people make money, from the landowners and investors to the drilling equipment companies and crew workers. So do...
Omaha Amtrak passengers bused to Lincoln due to floods
The following appeared on the Lincoln Journal Star website on June 3, 2011.) LINCOLN, Neb. — Flooding preparations have affected Amtrak's operations out of Omaha, but most Lincoln passengers won't be affected. Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway has closed its line...
North Dakota flooding suspends Amtrak until Tuesday
(The following appeared on The Oregonian website on June 4, 2011.) PORTLAND, Ore. — Amtrak service between the Pacific Northwest and St. Paul, Minn. will remain suspended at least through Tuesday due to flooding in North Dakota. Amtrak suspended that portion of Empire...
Rhode Island police investigate theft of railroad tracks
(The following appeared on the Boston Globe website on June 6, 2011.) NEWPORT, R.I.—State police say someone has stolen about 32-feet of railroad track from the Newport Secondary Line in Portsmouth. State police Capt. Raymond Studley tells the Newport Daily News that...
DOT’s stimulus spending hits $28.4 billion
(The following appeared on The Journal of Commerce website on June 3, 2011.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Department of Transportation’s payouts to states for work done under the 2009 economic stimulus law went above $28.4 billion as of May 20, the government reported, a...
2011 BNSF Special begins journey for employees, families
(BNSF issued the following press release on May 31, 2011.) FORT WORTH, Texas — BNSF Railway will begin operating the 2011 BNSF Special in Emporia, Kan., Friday, June 3, 2011, beginning a three-week, 7,000-mile journey through portions of Kansas, Texas, New Mexico and...
Rail tie manufacturing firm enjoys rail resurgence
(The following appeared on the Montreal Gazette website on June 3, 2011.) MONTREAL — Stella-Jones Inc. is riding the resurgence in North American rail traffic to healthy spikes in revenue and profits. The St. Laurent-based manufacturer of railway ties and utility...
Metro North to bill driver of car struck by train
(The following appeared on the Hartford Courant website on June 1, 2011.) HARTFORD, Conn. — The driver of a car that was hit by a Metro-North train on Sunday will be billed for damages to the train, a spokeswoman for the commuter railroad said. "The train was where it...
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