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Metrolink names new chief executive

(The following story by Dan Weikel appeared on the Los Angeles Times website on April 3, 2010.) LOS ANGELES — Metrolink's board of directors on Friday hired a former railroad vice president with broad transportation experience to replace David R. Solow, the embattled...

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Beech Grove to get 108 Amtrak jobs

(The following appeared at wthr.com on April 2, 2010.) BEECH GROVE, Ind. — Federal stimulus money is helping Amtrak workers in Indiana. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood toured the Amtrak maintenance facility in Beech Grove Friday. Amtrak used $32 million from the...

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Amtrak service returning to normal in Northeast

(The Associated Press circulated the following on April 5, 2010.O PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Amtrak service to the Northeast is returning to normal. Amtrak officials say they have resumed near full Northeast Regional and Acela Express service for Monday. Service between New...

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Pedestrian deaths by train remain steady

(The following story by appeared on the USA Today website on April 5, 2010.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Anna Marie Stickel, 14, missed the school bus that morning. So she took a shortcut along some railroad tracks that made her trek to school about 10 minutes; going the long,...

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Benefits under Railroad Retirement and Social Security

(The U.S. Railroad Retirement Board issued the following on March 3, 2010.) CHICAGO — Employers and employees covered by the Railroad Retirement Act pay higher retirement taxes than those covered by the Social Security Act, so that railroad retirement benefits remain...

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CP announces new agreement for westbound coal

(Canadian Pacific Railway issued the following on April 1, 2010.) CALGARY — Canadian Pacific Railway Limited today announced it has reached a one-year agreement with Teck Coal Ltd. (Teck) for the transportation of metallurgical coal from their CP served mines in...

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UP locomotive honors Boy Scouts of America

(The following report appeared on the KTRK website on March 31, 2010.) HOUSTON — Local scouts cheered as a locomotive dedicated to the Boy Scouts of America rolled into Houston this morning. The Union Pacific railroad created the UP Number 2010 Boy Scouts of America...

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Cluster of CN derailments near Toronto raises worries

(The following story by Tess Kalinowski, Carola Vyhnak and Richard J. Brennan appeared on the Toronto Star website on April 1, 2010.) TORONTO — The CN train derailment outside the Pickering GO station Tuesday raises plenty of questions but answers are hard to come by....

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Amtrak suspends some trains in flooded Northeast

(The Associated Press issued the following on March 31, 2010.) PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Amtrak has suspended many trains on its busy Northeast lines because of flooding in the region. Amtrak said Wednesday that water on the tracks near Providence, R.I., forced it to stop...

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