Rail Industry News

(The following story by James Mayer appeared on The Oregonian website on August 25, 2010.) PORTLAND, Ore. — The Port of Coos Bay received a $7.8 million state grant today for rehabilitation of the Coos Bay rail line. The Connect Oregon grant was announced in Reedsport...

(The Associated Press circulated the following on August 25, 2010.) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers have approved a bill requiring companies seeking high-speed rail contracts with the state to disclose any role they played during the Holocaust. The state...

(The Canadian Press circulated the following story by Terri Theodore on August 25, 2010.) VANCOUVER, B.C. — There are thousands of rail cars loaded with dangerous goods travelling North America carrying with them the potential for catastrophe because of a faulty part,...

(The following story by Joe Duggan appeared on the Lincoln Journal Star website on August 25, 2010.) COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa — Rock, sway, clack puts him to sleep like it's a railroader's lullaby. Later on, the young man watches trees zip past as the conductor keeps time...

(The following story by Jessica Rush appeared on the Frisco Enterprise website on August 25, 2010.) PLANO, Texas — In the next couple months, a rare diesel locomotive from the Smithsonian Institute will become a permanent piece in the Museum of the American Railroad...

(The following appeared on the Reno Gazette-Journal website on August 25, 2010.) RENO, Nevada — Two copper thieves will spend time in prison for stealing 750 pounds of copper wire meant for Union Pacific Railroad and Amtrak railroad tracks near Wendover. The U.S....

(The following story by Brian Amaral appeared on the Watertown Daily Times website on August 26, 2010.) OGDENSBURG, N.Y. — Confusion reigned at the Port of Ogdensburg Wednesday when a CSX official told a group of industry executives and officials that his company was...

(The following story by Debra Landis appeared on the State Journal-Register website on August 26, 2010.) GILLESPIE, Ill. — The Gillespie School District is suing the Union Pacific Railroad for damages stemming from 2009 mine subsidence that left Benld Elementary...

(The following appeared on the Rolla Daily News website on August 25, 2010.) JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Department of Natural Resources’ director Mark N. Templeton along with the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency today recognized the Mid-America Regional...

(The following appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on August 25, 2010.) Canadian Pacific plans to reorganize operations by October’s end to boost efficiency and improve customer service. The Class I will restructure 11 operations and engineering regions to...

(The following appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on August 25, 2010.) After a year in operation, the second Amtrak Cascades train from Washington state to Vancouver, B.C., has exceeded ridership expectations and recorded its best month in July at about...

(Norfolk Southern issued the following on August 25, 2010.) NORFOLK, Va. — Earlier this week lead state Pennsylvania, joined by Alabama, Virginia, Tennessee, Mississippi, and North Carolina, applied for federal money under the TIGER II Discretionary Grant program...

(The following appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on August 25, 2010.) On Monday, federal, state and local officials — including Rep. Earl Pomeroy (D-N.D.) — held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the North Dakota Port Services intermodal facility in Minot,...

(The following story by Mary Wisniewski appeared on the Chicago Sun-Times website on August 26, 2010.) CHICAGO — Five minutes before the 5:21 p.m. Metra train to Kenosha was set to depart Wednesday, every seat was filled. Disgruntled commuters stood in the aisles on...

(The following story by Mary Wisniewski appeared on the Chicago Sun-Times website on August 25, 2010.) CHICAGO — While delays are down on the Union Pacific North Line, some trains in the early morning and evening rush hour continue to have standing-room only...

(Reuters circulated the following on August 25, 2010.) Greenbrier Cos Inc (GBX.N) said it received about $130 million worth of new railcar and refurbishment orders and plans to add jobs at its plant, in a sign that the nascent recovery in the railcar market is on...

(The following story by David Tewes appeared on the Victoria Advocate website on August 26, 2010.) BLOOMINGTON, Texas — A task force looking for contraband on trains passing through the rail yard here may or may not have come up with something. "We found one container...

(Reuters circulated the following story by Christine Stebbins on August 25, 2010.) CHICAGO — U.S. grain handlers, already burdened with big wheat inventories, are bracing for a mammoth corn and soybean harvest that starts in a few weeks across America's heartland....

(The following story by Rich Connell appeared on the Los Angeles Times website on August 26, 2010.) LOS ANGELES — Metrolink and its former train operating contractor on Wednesday offered to pay $200 million to victims of the 2008 Chatsworth rail disaster that killed...

CLEVELAND, August 25 — The U.S. Railroad Retirement Board will hold free informational conferences throughout 2010 for elected officers of all railroad labor unions. The following is a list of informational conferences that have been scheduled thus far for 2010....