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CSX worker found in Jackson River in Covington, Va.
CSX and Covington Police are investigating, after a train worker was found in the Jackson River in Covington, Va., on Tuesday evening (February 8). Covington City Police Chief J.B. Broughman says the Covington Rescue Squad received a call for an injured person in the...
Federal plan may boost Quad Cities passenger rail
Passenger rail supporters hope the Obama administration's plan to boost funding over the next six years for high-speed and intercity rail projects will create an opportunity to fill an existing funding gap for the Quad-Cities' Amtrak link. Vice President Joe Biden...
Amtrak proposes $13.5 billion New Jersey rail tunnel project
Amtrak is proposing a $13.5 billion project that will include building two commuter rail tunnels from New Jersey to New York by 2020, replacing a $9.7 billion project that New Jersey's governor killed. The so-called Gateway project would allow New Jersey Transit and...
U.S. to inject $53 billion into passenger rail
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced an ambitious $53 billion program to build new high-speed rail networks and make existing ones faster over the next six years. Biden, who estimated he has ridden Amtrak between Washington and his home in Wilmington,...
Vice President Biden announces six year plan to build national high-speed rail network
(The White House issued the following on February 8, 2011.) PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Vice President Joe Biden today announced a comprehensive plan that will help the nation reach President Obama’s goal of giving 80 percent of Americans access to high-speed rail within 25...
Giving new life to Laramie’s rail history
Union Pacific steam engine 535 snaked its way through Laramie for the first time in over 50 years on Monday. Crews loaded the 75-ton engine onto a flatbed trailer at LaBonte Park and took it to Railroad Heritage Park at First and Garfield streets. Photographs and the...
Plans for fast Twin Cities-Chicago train hit speed bump
Prospects for a high-speed train between the Twin Cities and Chicago in the foreseeable future have disappeared, the casualty of funding shortfalls and political priorities. The refusal of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican, to accept federal money to build a...
NS prepares to rebuild track at site of Ohio ethanol derailment
Norfolk Southern expected to rebuild its track Tuesday after clearing the last wreckage from a site where 26 cars in an ethanol train derailed and burned in northeast Hancock County west of Arcadia, Ohio. An investigation continues into why the train, en route from...
Genesee & Wyoming Q4 rises on strong freight revenue
Genesee & Wyoming Inc., which owns and operates short-line and regional railroads, reported higher quarterly profit, helped by a rise in freight revenue. Genesee & Wyoming operates railroads in the United States, Canada, Australia and the Netherlands, and transports...
Labor Secretary Solis cites environmental jobs training in visit to Detroit
U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis on Monday commended a local branch of the Laborers' International Union of North America here for training workers to get green jobs, part of an Obama administration effort to increase infrastructure spending. LIUNA Local 1191 in...
Teamsters, TWU applaud PBS Frontline report on airline maintenance
(The International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the Transport Workers Union issued the following press release on February 7, 2011.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The International Brotherhood of Teamsters Airline Division and Transport Workers Union (TWU) commended PBS...
BNSF announces $3.5 billion capital commitment program
(BNSF issued the following on February 7, 2011.) FORT WORTH, Texas — BNSF on Feb. 7 announced a planned 2011 capital commitment program of $3.5 billion. The largest component of the capital plan is spending $2 billion on BNSF's core network and related assets. BNSF...
FRA awards grant to address Post Traumatic Stress Disorders in train crews
(The Federal Railroad Administration issued the following on February 4, 2011.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has awarded a $50,000 grant to the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation (NFFF) to design a program that will mitigate the...
KCS achieves record high run time performance on Meridian Speedway
(Kansas City Southern issued the following press release on February 4, 2011.) KANSAS CITY, Mo. — In 2006, KCS and NS closed on a joint venture to increase capacity and improve service on KCS’ Meridian Speedway between Meridian, Miss. and Shreveport, La. This rail...
CN, CP push for a ‘pipeline on rails’
Canada’s two major railroad companies have begun making regular shipments of oil, in a move that changes how Canadian crude moves to market – and opens the door to new destinations for energy exports, including Asia. Although pipelines continue to carry the...
N.J. governor sticking with decision to scrap tunnel
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is standing by his decision to kill the nation's biggest public works project, a train tunnel connecting New Jersey to New York City, he announced Wednesday (February 7). Christie has argued that his cash-strapped state can't afford to...
Amtrak, NJ senators propose new Hudson rail tunnel
NEWARK, N.J. — Amtrak and New Jersey's two U.S. senators think they have a way to add a rail link to New York City that will spread the cost around and prove more popular, among commuters and politicians alike, than the project Gov. Chris Christie killed last year....
Victims of deadly LA crash confront Veolia execs
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. — A woman showed photos of her late partner. A girl described losing her dad at 13. A mother presented X-rays detailing the metal rods doctors put in to fix her son's injured spine. One by one, victims of a Southern California commuter train crash...
Topeka exhibit focuses on Lincoln, railroads
If Lincoln hadn’t signed the Pacific Railroad Act in 1862, there wouldn’t have been a Transcontinental Railroad and Topekans wouldn’t have the chance to see the current exhibit at The Great Overland Station. “The Railsplitter and the Railroads: Lincoln, the Union and...
STB reschedules railroad competition hearing for June
(The Surface Transportation Board issued the following on February 4, 2011.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Surface Transportation Board announced today that it has rescheduled to June 22, 2011 the public hearing on the current state of competition in the railroad industry....
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