Rail Industry News
Railroad shares down at the close of August 10 trading
(The Associated Press circulated the following on August 10, 2010.) NEW YORK — Shares of some top railroads companies were down at the close of trading: CSX fell $.52 or 1.0 percent, to $53.35. Canadian National fell $.22 or .3 percent, to $64.03. Canadian Pacific...
Penn students create ambitious plan for rail service
(The following story by Paul Nussbaum appeared on the Philadelphia Inquirer website on August 11, 2010.) PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — A class of graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania has created a plan to rebuild the Northeast Corridor as a true high-speed rail...
Ga., Tenn. eye federal money for high-speed rail
(The Associated Press circulated the following on August 9, 2010.) ATLANTA — Georgia and Tennessee are applying for a $34 million federal grant to continue the development of a high-speed rail service from Atlanta to Nashville. Georgia Department of Transportation...
Texas eyes a piece of the high-speed-rail pie
(The following story by Gordon Dickson appeared on the Fort Worth Star-Telegram website on August 11, 2010.) IRVING, Texas — The clock is ticking for Texas to get a share of the more than $50 billion for high-speed rail that Congress is expected to approve for the...
LaHood sees bright future for high-speed trains in U.S.
(The following story by Paul Nussbaum appeared on the Philadelphia Inquirer website on August 11, 2010.) SUMMERDALE, Pa. — New high-speed trains will link 80 percent of Americans within 25 years, at a cost of about $500 billion, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray...
WMATA pledges to create board safety committee
(The following appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on August 10, 2010.) Yesterday, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority's (WMATA) board pledged to recreate a board safety committee and revise WMATA’s mission statement and board procedures to...
NTSB criticizes Metro board over fatal crash in 2009
(The following story by Derek Kravitz appeared on the Washington Post website on August 10, 2010.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Federal safety officials reviewing the fatal June 2009 Red Line crash criticized Metro's board of directors Monday, while its chairman fired back at...
Family seeks information on work-related death of BLET member
(The following story by Andrea Williams appeared at WTOK.com on August 11, 2010. Darrell Amerson was a member of BLET Division 230 in Meridian, Miss.) LAUDERDALE COUNTY, Miss. — 41-year-old Darrell Amerson was severely injured at his job for Norfolk Southern July 1....
Railroad Retirement Board 2010 informational conferences
CLEVELAND, August 10 — 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....
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...
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...
Obituary: Norfolk & Western president John P. Fishwick
(The following story by Laurence Hammack appeared on the Roanoke Times website on August 10, 2010.) ROANOKE, Va. — John P. Fishwick, who defined the railroad as much as the railroad defined Roanoke, died Monday at the age of 93. As president of the Norfolk & Western...
Opinion: Baltimore tunnel derailment points to unfinished business
(The following column by Michael Dresser appeared on The Baltimore Sun website on August 9, 2010.) BALTIMORE, Md. — Baltimore received a relatively gentle reminder last week of some unfinished business that it can ill afford to ignore. A CSX freight train derailed...
Amtrak continues work on Niantic bridge repairs
(The following story by Amy Renczkowski appeared on The Day website on August 10, 2010.) EAST LYME, Conn. — Amtrak said Monday that channel closures agreed to by local boaters and marine businesses are helping the Niantic River Bridge replacement project move forward...
Former NJ Transit conductor admits pocketing cash from ticket sales
(The following story by Mike Frassinelli appeared on The Star-Ledger website on August 6, 2010.) NEWARK — An assistant NJ Transit conductor who resold bundles of train tickets and pocketed the $3,500 in cash pleaded guilty today to theft by deception and official...
Freight-rail capacity expansion bill enters Senate
(The following appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on August 9, 2010.) Last week, Sens. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) and John Ensign (R-Nev.) introduced the Freight Rail Infrastructure Capacity Expansion Act of 2010 (S. 3749), which aims to encourage private...
Signals get crossed on Worcester rail link plans
(The following story by Eric Moskowitz appeared on the Boston Globe website on August 9, 2010.) BOSTON, Mass. — The commuter rail has been Lieutenant Governor Tim Murray’s signature issue since he took office as a Worcester city councilor more than a decade ago. He...
Mass. Governor urges passenger rail plan
(The following story by Steven H. Foskett Jr. appeared on the Telegram & Gazette website on August 10, 2010.) WORCESTER, Mass. — Lt. Gov. Timothy P. Murray last night reiterated his support for passenger rail service from Worcester through Cambridge to North Station...
Amtrak riders hit new high Lancaster, Pa.
(The following story by Tim Mekeel appeared on the Lancaster New Era website on August 9, 2010.) LANCASTER, Pa. — More trains plus faster trains continues to equal more riders at the Lancaster Amtrak station. Amtrak ridership here exceeded 500,000 for the first time...
Amtrak ridership on Chicago-St. Louis line is up 11 percent
(The Associated Press circulated the following on August 9, 2010.) CHICAGO — Amtrak says ridership on its rail line between Chicago and St. Louis is up 11 percent over the last fiscal year. Amtrak says that from October 2009 through July, more than a half-million...
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