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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....
Commuter rail head selected to run MBTA
(The following story by Brian MacQuarrie appeared on the Boston Globe website on March 23, 2010.) BOSTON — In a move that state officials hope infuses the MBTA with new direction and increased efficiency, Governor Deval Patrick has recommended that the head of its...
Canadian Pacific to hold conference call to discuss the transition from Canadian GAAP to U.S. GAAP
(Canadian Pacific issued the following on March 22, 2010.) CALGARY — Canadian Pacific Railway Limited for informational purposes intends to file U.S. GAAP consolidated financial statements for 2009 on Wednesday, March 24, 2010. U.S. GAAP consolidated financial...
Famous UP steam locomotive No. 844 to stop in Oklahoma
(The following appeared on the Muskogee Phoenix website on March 23, 2010.) MUSKOGEE, Okla. — Union Pacific Railroad's historic steam locomotive, No. 844, will stop in Muskogee on April 8. A UP spokeswoman said the train will stop at the Martin Luther King crossing...
CSX to remove signs so buses can avoid stop for rails-to-nowhere
(The following story by Elizabeth Gibson appeared on the Columbus Dispatch website on March 23, 2010.) COLUMBUS, Ohio — Every time a COTA bus approaches the defunct railroad crossing on W. Goodale Street, the driver has to stop, open the door and check both ways to...
Winter Haven commissioners approve business park land use for CSX
(The following story by Merissa Green appeared on The Ledger website on March 22, 2010.) WINTER HAVEN, Fla. — City Commissioners in Winter Haven cleared the way Monday night for a business park center to be developed on 932 acres near the CSX Evansville Western...
Amtrak worker cuts bike lock, woman’s bike stolen
(The following report by Steve Large appeared at www.cbs13.com on March 23, 2010.) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — An Amtrak employee is now being disciplined after cutting the lock on a woman's bike and letting someone walk away with it. In Lorena Beightler's case, her bike was...
DOT awards $11.8 million in transportation-related training grants
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today announced $11.8 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) job training grants for 19 states, Guam and Puerto Rico. The grants, from the Federal Highway Administration’s “On the Job...
KCS, NS assess joint Meridian Speedway line
(The following appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on March 22, 2010.) Last week, senior executives from Kansas City Southern and Norfolk Southern Railway completed an annual inspection of their Meridian Speedway joint venture to assess improvements made...
Railroad shares up at the close of March 22 trading
(The Associated Press circulated the following on March 22, 2010.) NEW YORK — Shares of some top railroads companies were up at the close of trading: CSX rose $.29 or .6 percent, to $51.80. Canadian National rose $.39 or .7 percent, to $59.27. Canadian Pacific rose...
U.S. Class I workforce up from January’s count, down from 2009’s total
(The following appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on March 22, 2010.) After contracting a tad in January, the U.S. Class I workforce expanded a smidge in February. As of mid-February, the workforce stood at 146,308, up 0.5 percent from January’s level,...
Democrat ‘no’ votes on health bill anger unions
(The following story by Kevin Bogardus appeared at www.TheHill.com on March 23, 2010.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Unions are likely to rescind their backing of labor-friendly lawmakers who voted against the healthcare bill and may support challengers. Karen Ackerman, the...
Disability-claims inquiry concluding for LIRR
(The following story by David M. Halbfinger appeared on the New York Times website on March 23, 2010.) NEW YORK — The Long Island Rail Road will hire an independent examiner to review its safeguards against abuse of the railroad’s disability pension system, under an...
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....
Marcellus Shale sends short-line railroad booming
(The following story by Andrew Maykuth appeare don the Philadelphia Inquirer website on March 22, 2010.) WELLSBORO, Pa. — Nobody knew there was gold in the sand. When A.T. "Tom" Myles approached officials in this town three years ago about taking over the ailing...
Options bleak to shore up N.J. transportation fund
(The following story by Paul Nussbaum appeared on the Philadelphia Inquirer website on March 22, 2010.) PHILADELPHIA — As New Jersey looks for ways to pay for highways and transit after the state's Transportation Trust Fund runs dry, it can expect to find pain at...
Positive Train Control equipment to cost Metra $100 million
(The following story by Richard Wronski appeared on the Chicago Tribune website on March 22, 2010.) CHICAGO — Metra plans to spend $100 million to install a high-tech system that would keep trains from colliding or prevent a distracted engineer from speeding through a...
Court to rail worker: No urine test, no pay
(The following story by Paul Hammel appeared on the Omaha World-Herald website on March 19, 2010.) LINCOLN, Neb. — If you won't go, then you get no dough. That was the ruling this morning in the Nebraska Supreme Court over a Burlington Northern Sante Fe engineer who...
World’s high-speed train makers set sights on U.S.
(The following story by Chris Cooper of Bloomberg News appeared on the New York Times website on March 19,2010.) TOKYO — Walt Disney World in Florida may be the next stop for bullet-train makers in Japan and China. Central Japan Railway and China South Locomotive &...
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