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New England Central derailment damages train in Amherst
(The following appeared on the Mass Live website on May 31, 2011.) AMHERST, Mass. — The derailment of six to eight freight train cars presents no threat to public safety, but it could take days to clear the scene and repair damage to the rail lines, an Amherst town...
ACLU warns Maryland transit system not to ban public from taking pictures of trains
(The following appeared on the USA Today website on June 1, 2011.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The ACLU of Maryland is threatening legal action against the Maryland Transit Administration for allegedly ordering an Oregon man and a second photographer not to take pictures of...
Sentencing set in Amtrak sabotage case
(The Associated Press circulated the following on June 1, 2011.) BUFFALO, N.Y. — A western New York woman faces sentencing for admitting she lied to investigators after someone tried to derail a passenger train traveling through the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation last...
U.S. Rep. Hastings: Rejecting high-speed rail money was big mistake for Florida
(The following column by U.S. Rep Alcee L. Hastings appeared on the South Florida Sun-Sentinel website on June 1, 2011. Rep. Hastings serves as senior member of the House Rules Committee, ranking Democratic member of the U.S. Helsinki Commission, and Democratic...
Central Nebraskans tackle cleanup
(The following appeared on the Grand Island Independent website on June 1, 2011.) GRAND ISLAND, Neb. — Central Nebraskans continued to clean up Tuesday after a strong line of thunderstorms swept through late on Memorial Day, producing winds as high as 90 mph and...
Wind, water effect Amtrak travel in N.D.
(The following appeared on the Daily Inter Lake website on June 1, 2011.) KALISPELL, Mont. — Northern railroad travel on Amtrak has been delayed indefinitely Dakota. Amtrak spokesman Marc Magliari said Tuesday that high winds on Devil’s Lake in North Dakota caused the...
DOT eyes scaling back Positive Train Control due to cost
(The following appeared on The Journal of Commerce website on June 1, 2011.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Department of Transportation is working on changes in rail regulations that could save the industry more than $1 billion over the next two decades. Transportation...
New applicants for RRB benefits must choose electronic payments starting May 1; Paper checks will also be phased out for existing recipients
(The U.S. Railroad Retirement Board issued the following on April 10, 2011.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Beginning May 1, new applicants for federal benefits, including those paid by the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board (RRB), are required to receive them as electronic payments....
NS officials say stinky pile was train, not feces
(The following appeared on The Star Press website on May 27, 2011.) MUNCIE, Ind. — A communications official with Norfolk Southern said on Thursday that one of its trains left a putrid pile of grain -- and not human waste -- laying in the middle of its tracks on the...
NJ Transit expands quiet car service to Hoboken
(The following appeared at www.nj.com on May 30, 2011.) HOBOKEN, N.J. — Starting Wednesday, NJ Transit rush-hour commuters to and from Hoboken can enjoy the popular Quiet Commute program by riding in train cars free of cell phones and loud talking. It is the final...
Flooding to hit CP Rail’s quarterly earnings
(The following appeared on the Financial Post website on May 27, 2011.) OTTAWA — Severe flooding is expected to once again jam up Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd.’s earnings in the second quarter. CP’s management has indicated that the negative impact from flooding along...
Massive train bottleneck leads to a rare form of cooperation
(The following story from Stateline.org appeared on the Bellingham Herald website on May 29, 2011.) CHICAGO — It is an all-too-common experience. An Amtrak passenger train traveling from Michigan, just eight miles from its final stop at Chicago's downtown Union...
MBTA ridership up in April
(The Associated Press circulated the following on May 31, 2011.) BOSTON — MBTA officials say ridership on the system’s buses, subway lines and commuter rail lines climbed last month to its highest level since September 2008. General Manager Richard Davey says an...
Once again, Georgia misses out on high-speed rail funding
(The following appeared on the Miami Herald website on May 27, 2011.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Chalk it up to mixed signals or funding roadblocks, but for a multitude of reasons Georgia's high-speed rail plans just keep getting derailed. Georgia was snubbed by the Obama...
Opinion: GOP rejects high-speed rail, voters reject GOP
(The following column appeared on the Gas 2.0 website on May 27, 2011.) How are the GOP governors who rejected high-speed rail projects doing? Buyer’s remorse has set in spectacularly swiftly – from Wisconsin to Florida, their approval ratings have a trajectory like...
Editorial: Accelerating Amtrak
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Amtrak, the quasi-government-run passenger-rail system, was born on May 1, 1971. Since then, ridership on the Northeast Corridor has about doubled. And it could double again, in our humble opinion, once the plan to provide 220-mile-an-hour train...
No high-speed rail creates gridlock challenge for Florida
(The following appeared on the Tampa Tribune website on May 31, 2011.) TAMPA, Fla. — When Gov. Rick Scott rejected $2.4 billion in federal funds to build the Tampa-Orlando high-speed rail leg in February, he told the U.S. Transportation secretary other projects were...
California’s high-speed rail draws Spaniards’ attention
(The following appeared on the San Francisco Chronicle website on May 31, 2011.) SAN FRANCISCO — Despite the hammering California's high-speed rail project has taken lately, outside players appear to be as interested in it as ever. Spanish trade officials and...
Development follows New England high-speed rail
(The Associated Press circulated the following on May 28, 2011.) WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn. — Surrounded by broken asphalt and sprouting weeds, the boarded-up, 150-year-old train station is still a thing of beauty to Steven N. Wawruck Jr. For more than three years, Windsor...
One Teamster member dead following Joplin tornado; 40 once-missing members accounted for
(The International Brotherhood of Teamsters issued the following on May 27, 2011.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Five days after an F5 tornado destroyed the town of Joplin, Missouri, 40 once-missing members from Local 823 in Joplin have been accounted for. The news is a ray of...
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