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Amtrak’s Boston-NYC service restored after bomb threat near station
(The following appeared on the New York Post website on May 11, 2011.) NEW LONDON, Conn. — Amtrak restored its full Boston-to-New York train service Tuesday following a bomb threat near the New London station in Connecticut. The trains had earlier been delayed for...
NJ Transit to unveil dual-mode locomotive
(The following appeared at Northjersey.com on May 11, 2011.) BERGEN, N.J. — NJ Transit today plans to unveil its first locomotive powered by an engine that can operate on both diesel and electric lines. The dual-mode locomotive NJ Transit will unveil today is just one...
Amtrak ridership surges in April, posts 18 consecutive months of year-over-year growth
(Amtrak issued the following on May 10, 2011.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amtrak ridership surged in April to be the best April on record and extends the national passenger railroad’s streak to 18 consecutive months of year-over-year ridership growth. Ridership for April 2011...
Plot detailed in bin Laden trove renews concerns about rail sector’s vulnerability
(The following appeared on the Wall Street Journal website on May 11, 2011.) PITTSBURGH — Long before papers found at Osama bin Laden's Pakistani hideout revealed a plot to attack U.S. railroads, security experts warned that the nation's 140,000 miles of track...
Transcontinental railroad is completed, May 10, 1869
(The following appeared at www.politico.com on May 10, 2011.) On this day in 1869, workers for the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads drove a golden spike into the rails at Promontory Summit, Utah. The event marked completion of the first transcontinental...
California, Illinois, Amtrak are among recipients of high-speed rail funds
(The following appeared on the Los Angeles Times website on May 9, 2011.) LOS ANGELES — California, Illinois and 13 other states, along with Amtrak, will share $2 billion in federal grants aimed at developing high-speed rail service, money that had been rejected by...
Idled railcars reach two-year low
(The following appeared on the Journal of Commerce website on May 9, 2011.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — North American railcars owners reduced their number of idled or stored units by 7,421 in April to 276,228, the lowest since cars in storage peaked at more than 500,000 in...
Maryland Amtrak passengers to see speed, reliability upgrades
(The following appeared on the Baltimore Sun website on May 9, 2011.) BALTIMORE, Md. — Amtrak passengers in Maryland and other Eastern states emerged as some of the biggest beneficiaries of Florida's decision to turn down more than $2 billion in federal high-speed...
New York’s Rensselaer station to see improvements from high-speed rail funds
(The following appeared on the Albany Times-Union website on May 10, 2011.) ALBANY, N.Y. — The last of the federal funds appropriated for high-speed rail was distributed Monday, and New York state came away with $354.4 million of the more than $2 billion available....
Some of rail money Fla. rejected will go to Northeast instead
(The following appeared on the Boston Globe website on May 10, 2011.) BOSTON — Awarding $2 billion in high-speed rail grants spurned by Florida, the federal government yesterday redirected a big chunk of that money toward the Northeast, including $21 million to...
Philly to New York trains to become nation’s fastest
(The following appeared on the Philadelphia Inquirer website on May 9, 2011.) PHILADELPHIA — Amtrak was awarded $450 million on Monday for major improvements that will make Philadelphia-to-New-York trains the fastest in the country. The money was part of $2 billion...
Rail security upgrades are on the way for Amtrak
(The following appeared on the Asbury Park Press website on May 10, 2011.) NEW YORK — Amtrak passengers will not have to submit to airport-style security checks, said its president Joseph Boardman, but security upgrades are on the way for the intercity rail network....
BNSF profit up 20 percent in 2011 first quarter
(The following appeared on the Journal of Commerce website on May 9, 2011.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — BNSF Railway posted a $607 million profit for the first quarter, up 20 percent from the same period in 2010 and reflecting a mix of higher freight traffic, fuel fees and...
UP spends $1.13 million for Neb. land; keeps mum on use
GIBBON, Neb. — Union Pacific Railroad has spent about $1.13 million on 119.26 acres east of Gibbon since December, but U.P. officials aren’t talking about their plans for the area. “We are always evaluating the capacity on the railroad and the ability to move trains...
NJ tracks repaired before today’s commute, but issues remain in NYC
(The Associated Press issued the following on May 9, 2011.) HOBOKEN, N.J. — Workers repaired damage caused when a commuter train crashed, but the derailment of an empty Amtrak train in a tunnel was causing headaches for other commuters into New York City. Travelers...
Companies resist paying freight for Berkshire’s acquisition of BNSF
(The following appeared on the Lincoln Journal Star website on May 7, 2011.) LINCOLN, Neb. — Lincoln Electric System's chief financial officer, Laura made the pilgrimage to Omaha bearing a question for Warren Buffett at his company's annual gathering last weekend. It...
Railroads work closely with feds as terror threats develop
(The following appeared on the Omaha World-Herald website on May 7, 2011.) OMAHA, Neb. — Representatives of the country's two largest railroads, Union Pacific Railway in Omaha and BNSF Railway Co., said they've worked closely with federal security officials since the...
Bay Area railroad security keeps close watch
(The following appeared on the San Francisco Chronicle website on May 8, 2011.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Homeland Security officials warned that Osama bin Laden may have been eyeing a terrorist attack on an American commuter railroad, but officials who run Bay Area trains...
Schumer calls for ‘do not ride’ list for Amtrak
(Reuters circulated the following on May 7, 2011.) NEW YORK — A senator on Sunday called for a "no-ride list" for Amtrak trains after intelligence gleaned from the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound pointed to potential attacks on the nation's train system. Sen....
Rail tunnel security breaches cause scare in NYC
(The following appeared on the New York Post website on May 9, 2011.) NEW YORK — Two terrifying rail security breaches occurred within hours of each other in the city yesterday -- including one at the World Trade Center, where a man slipped into the PATH tunnel and...
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