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RRB: Summary of annual financial report to Congress
(The U.S. Railroad Retirement Board issued the following on August 3, 2010.) CHICAGO — The Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) is required by law to submit annual reports to Congress on the financial condition of the railroad retirement system and the railroad...
Credit for military service under the Railroad Retirement Act
(The U.S. Railroad Retirement Board issued the following on July 23, 2010.) CHICAGO — Many railroad employees have at some time served in the Armed Forces of the United States. Under certain conditions, their military service may be credited as rail service under the...
Union Pacific upgrading Wisconsin track segment
(The following story by Joe Taschler appeared on the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel website on August 24, 2010.) MILWAUKEE, Wisc. — Union Pacific Railroad said Tuesday it will spend more than $9 million to improve the rail line from Milwaukee to near Lebanon in...
STB schedules oral argument for Arizona Electric Power/BNSF rate case
(The following appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on August 24, 2010.) The Surface Transportation Board (STB) has scheduled an oral argument on Sept. 28 in Washington, D.C., to hear arguments from Arizona Electric Power Cooperative Inc. and BNSF Railway...
NC DOT delays deadline on rail comments
(The following appeared on the News & Observer website on August 25, 2010.) CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The state Department of Transportation says it will extend to Sept. 10 the deadline for public comment on a proposal to run trains as fast as 110 mph on a new track from...
Coming soon: Iowa rail port, Nebraska grain shuttle
(The following appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on August 24, 2010.) On Aug. 20, Iowa Gov. Chet Culver and Union Pacific Railroad officials broke ground for the Lincolnway Rail Port in Clinton. The $10.8 million rail port — which obtained $2 million in...
Metra service improving after new schedule debut
(The following story by Mary Wisniewski appeared on the Chicago Sun-Times website on August 24, 2010.) CHICAGO — Metra commuters on the Union Pacific North Lines still faced some delays this morning, but Metra said it’s an improvement over Monday’s commute. “It’s...
Hopes rise for Niagara Falls transport center
(The following story by Richard E. Baldwin appeared on the Buffalo News website on August 24, 2010.) NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. — Public officials from all levels of government praised plans for a proposed intermodal transportation center during a ceremonial groundbreaking...
Virginia Railway Express can sell railcars and locomotives to the Army
(The following story by Jennifer Buske appeared on the Washington Post website on August 24, 2010.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Virginia Railway Express Operations Board has given commuter-rail officials the green light to sell rail cars and locomotives to the Army, which...
San Mateo residents, business owners wary of high-speed rail plans
(The following story by Mike Rosenberg appeared on the San Mateo County Times website on August 24, 2010.) SAN MATEO, Calif. — A growing number of San Mateo residents and businesses are agonizing about what will become of their properties and the city's downtown as...
Amtrak plans dog patrols on trains in Ore., Wash.
(The Associated Press circulated the following on August 24, 2010.) PORTLAND, Ore. — Dogs are going to be riding Amtrak between Portland and Seattle for the next couple of weeks. Amtrak officials say dog patrols will be conducted on trains and at the Seattle King...
UP has doubts about EPA agreement on Omaha records
(The Associated Press circulated the following on August 24, 2010.) OMAHA, Neb. — The Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to stop destroying records Union Pacific requested about lead contamination in Omaha, but the railroad worries the federal agency won't...
Some U.S. states balk at costs of high-speed rail projects
(Dow Jones Newswires circulated the following by Josh Mitchell on August 20, 2010.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Some states that participated in the Obama administration's plans for building high-speed rail networks are now balking at those projects, halting or scaling back...
New York, D.C. areas hit with passenger train delays
(The following story by Martha T. Moore appeared on the USA Today website on August 24, 2010.) NEW YORK — Commuter trains from Washington, D.C., to New York were halted in mid-rush-hour Tuesday morning by electrical problems on Amtrak's rail line, delaying tens of...
Train troubles again strand Northeast commuters
(The Associated Press circulated the following on August 24, 2010.) NEWARK, N.J. — In a snag all too familiar to commuters in a rail-dependent region, Amtrak and regional transit agencies halted trains throughout the Northeast for more than an hour at the height of...
Railroad Retirement Board 2010 informational conferences
CLEVELAND, August 24 — 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....
RRB: Summary of annual financial report to Congress
(The U.S. Railroad Retirement Board issued the following on August 3, 2010.) CHICAGO — The Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) is required by law to submit annual reports to Congress on the financial condition of the railroad retirement system and the railroad...
Credit for military service under the Railroad Retirement Act
(The U.S. Railroad Retirement Board issued the following on July 23, 2010.) CHICAGO — Many railroad employees have at some time served in the Armed Forces of the United States. Under certain conditions, their military service may be credited as rail service under the...
Officials hope train will stop in Lexington, N.C., by 2015
(The following story by Vikki Broughton Hodges appeared on The Dispatch website on August 23, 2010.) LEXINGTON, N.C. — In about five years from now, if the funding is approved, local residents could board a high-speed train to Charlotte or Raleigh and visitors could...
Rail supplier Wabtec completes Bach-Simpson buy
(The following story by John D. Boyd appeared on The Journal of Commerce website on August 23, 2010.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rail industry products supplier Wabtec completed its planned acquisition of electronic instrument maker Bach-Simpson from Global Railway Industries...
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