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Rail cars carrying ammonia derail at Port of Tampa, injuring one
(The following story by Kim Wilmath and Jessica Vander Velde appeared on the St. Petersburg Times website on April 1, 2010.) TAMPA — Rail cars carrying anhydrous ammonia derailed Wednesday morning at the Port of Tampa. No ammonia leaked, authorities said, but one...
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...
Nation needs to ramp up transit funding, Rep. Nadler says
(The following appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on March 31, 2010.) Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) is trying to spearhead efforts to increase transit funding in the fiscal-year 2011 Transportation-HUD Appropriations bill. He recently joined 66 colleagues...
High-speed rail picks up speed in Illinois
(The following story by Cindy Wojdyla Cain appeared on the Joliet Herald News website on April 1, 2010.) JOLIET, Ill. — Illinois Secretary of Transportation Gary Hannig will meet with Union Pacific Railroad officials today in Omaha, Neb., to talk about using the...
Ports climbing out of shipping slump
(The following story by Kristopher Hanson appeared on the Long Beach Press-Telegram website on April 1, 2010.) LONG BEACH, Calif. — Maybe there was nowhere to go but up. After suffering through their worst two-year stretch in history, local ports have begun climbing...
DOT stimulus payouts hit $10 billion
(The following story by John D. Boyd appeared on the Journal of Commerce website on March 31, 2010.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Department of Transportation has paid out $10 billion to states for highway repairs and other transport project work completed under last year’s...
FRA to grant $115 million for rail construction
(The Federal Railroad Administration issued the following on March 31, 2010.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Funds Complement President Obama’s $8 Billion Down Payment to Enhance Passenger Rail in America The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) this week will begin accepting...
CTA says it has beefed up security
(The following appeared on the Chicago Tribune website on April 1, 2010.) CHICAGO — The CTA has heightened security on buses and trains in light of the subway attacks this week in Moscow that killed 39 people, officials said. CTA officials say more uniformed and...
Hundreds of cops flood Penn Station, Grand Central for terror drill
(The following story by Murray Weiss, Larry Celona and Katherine Romero appeared on the New York Post website on April 1, 2010.) NEW YORK — Call it a surge, Big Apple-style. Hundreds of cops flooded Penn Station, Grand Central and Herald Square yesterday in a...
4,200 workers furloughed, but UP CEO’s compensation was $11.2 million in 2009
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Josh Funk on March 31st, 2010.) OMAHA, Neb. — Union Pacific Corp. Chairman and CEO Jim Young’s compensation fell less than 5 percent last year because the railroad’s board felt he kept the company on track in a...
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...
Railroad Retirement Board 2010 informational conferences
CLEVELAND, March 12 — 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....
Famous UP locomotive to steam through Lawrence, Kan.
(The following story by Mark Fagan appeared on the Lawrence Journal-World website on March 30, 2010.) LAWRENCE, Kan. — The last steam locomotive built for Union Pacific Railroad will be chugging through the area Sunday. The 66-year-old No. 844 engine will be expected...
UP honoring the Boy Scouts with locomotive
(The following story by Matt Stephens appeared on The Courier website on March 30, 2010.) HOUSTON, Texas — In the nearly 150 years of the Union Pacific Railroad Corporation, the company has released only 10 commemorative locomotives. Among them, one train commemorates...
Midday passenger trains to ply route to Charlotte
(The following story by Bruce Siceloff appeared on the News & Observer website on March 31, 2010.) RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina's passenger train schedule will grow on June 5 with the launch of a third daily round-trip train between Raleigh and Charlotte, leaving...
CN offers online tool to calculate carbon emissions, rate at same time
(CN issued the following on March 29, 2010.) MONTREAL — In a rail industry first, CN customers can now calculate their carbon savings from switching shipments to rail from truck at the same time they secure a rate from the company's public pricing tools, Get Carload...
Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal trains to resume following CN derailment
(The following appeared at CBC.ca. on March 30, 2010.) MONTREAL — Via Rail passenger service in the Toronto-Ottawa and Toronto-Montreal corridors was expected to resume Wednesday morning after it was suspended Tuesday afternoon on account of a CN freight train...
NJ Transit may rethink budget cut proposals
(The following story by Winstina S. Hughes appeared on the New York Times website on March 30, 2010.) NEW YORK — New Jersey Transit announced today that they will rethink their budget-cutting proposals, including the 25 percent fare hike, after listening to the public...
Opinion: Will high speed rail be worth the wait for Nevadans?
(The following column by Richard N. Velotta appeared on the Las Vegas Sun website on March 31, 2010.) LAS VEGAS, Nevada — If Southern Nevadans are frustrated about what’s happening — or not happening — with high-speed rail in our part of the country, no wonder. We...
NAFTA trade soared in January
(The following story by Thomas L. Gallagher appeared on The Journal of Commerce website on March 30, 2010.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Trade using surface transportation between the United States and its North American Free Trade Agreement partners Canada and Mexico soared...
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