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Commuters will feel the pinch of NJ Transit
(The following story by Judy Rife appeared on the Times Herald-Record website on March 10, 2010.) MIDDLETOWN, N.Y. — South of the border, the names and numbers are different, but the story is the same: growing deficit, lower ridership, higher costs, less state aid....
Public transit trips exceed 10 billion again in 2009, but fall short of 2008 record
(The following appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on March 9, 2010.) Despite high unemployment, low gas prices and a weak economy, trips taken on U.S. public transportation systems in 2009 surpassed 10 billion for the fourth-straight year, according to...
LaHood to airlines: Get onboard the high-speed train
(The following story by Scott McCartney appeared on the Wall Street Journal website on March 10, 2010.) NEW YORK — The airline industry was left fuming last year when some $8 billion on federal stimulus money was appropriated for high-speed rail while air-traffic...
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 man carves love for locomotives into wooden models
(The following story by Chris Dumond appeared on the Lynchburg News Advance website on March 8, 2010.) LYNCHBURG, Va. — The wood taketh away Fred Reburn from the railroad and the wood giveth him back to it. On Sept. 12, 1979, Reburn, a brakeman and conductor for...
Editorial: Fort Worth rail bottleneck endangers young lives
(The following editorial appeared on the Fort Worth Star-Telegram website on March 9, 2010.) FORT WORTH, Texas — Fort Worth missed out on a $60.9 million federal economic stimulus grant that was supposed to be combined with money from the BNSF and Union Pacific...
Fast train fares won’t be that high, Wisc. DOT official says
(The following story by Larry Sandler appeared on the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel website on March 8, 2010.) MILWAUKEE, Wisc. — High-speed rail critics are overstating the fare likely to be charged on a planned train line connecting Milwaukee and Madison, a top state...
CSX train derails in Philadelphia’s Center City
(The following story by James Osborne appeared on the Philadelphia Inquirer website on March 9, 2010.) PHILADELPHIA — A 115-car cargo train derailed in Center City last night, with five cars leaving the tracks near 23d and Race Streets. Battalion Fire Chief Mike Kane...
Atlanta firm offers to link commuter, high-speed rail
(The following story by Dan Tracy appeared on the Orlando Sentinel website on March 8, 2010.) ORLANDO, Fla. — A metro Atlanta company that's struggled in the past is offering to raise and spend $223 million to build a magnetically levitated train that would link two...
Editorial: Intermodal yard points to larger questions about Fayette’s future
(The following editorial appeared on The Memphis News website on March 9, 2010.) MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Piperton-Rossville area of Fayette County will change and the central question is how. But that’s not the only question to consider as Norfolk Southern works to...
While many support the proposed Fayette rail yard, it won’t come without a price
(The following story by Eric Smith appeared on The Daily News website on March 8, 2010.) MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The development of Norfolk Southern Corp.’s $112 million intermodal yard on a former cattle ranch in Fayette County has polarized the community for more than a...
NJ Transit’s payroll grows 24 percent from 2006 to 2009
(The following appeared on the Asbury Park Press website on March 8, 2010.) ASBURY PARK, N.J. — New Jersey Transit's payroll rose more than $154 million from 2006 to 2009, when the agency paid a total of $804 million in salaries and wages. The payroll increase was up...
NJ Transit to cut six Atlantic City-to-Philadelphia train runs; no bus routes
(The following story by Thomas Barlas appeared on the Press of Atlantic City website on March 8, 2010.) ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — NJ Transit would cut six train runs — including four on the weekend — from its Atlantic City Rail Line as part of a plan to help close a $300...
Dozens of transit-rail projects gain USDOT grants
(The following appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on March 8, 2010.) On Friday, the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) announced a new round of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funding for 191 transit projects in 42 states and Puerto...
KCS buys Puerta Mexico intermodal terminal
(The following story by John D. Boyd appeared on The Journal of Commerce website on March 8, 2010.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Kansas City Southern bought the Puerta Mexico intermodal terminal facility about 40 miles west of Mexico City at Toluca, and plans soon to start...
Short-staffed FRA draws fire over high-speed rail efforts
(The following story by Matt Kelley appeared on the USA Today website on March 9, 2010.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The federal agency in charge of $8 billion in economic stimulus spending on high-speed-rail projects doesn't have the staff or expertise to properly oversee the...
Norfolk Southern assessed $4 million fine for 2005 Graniteville crash
(The following story by Sammy Fretwell appeared on The State website on March 9, 2010.) COLUMBIA, S.C. — A railroad company responsible for a deadly 2005 chemical accident in Graniteville must pay a $4 million penalty for damage to creeks, lakes and forests caused by...
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...
Opinion: Water contamination from NS site in Memphis almost a certainty
(The following colmn by Dr. Nancy Brannon appeared on The Memphis News website on March 8, 2010. Brannon is an environmental sociologist..) MEMPHIS, Tenn. — News came recently that Norfolk Southern Corp. will receive $105 million in federal stimulus money. It was...
Rail shipments important to Superior economy
(The following appeared on the Superior Telegram website on March 5, 2010.) SUPERIOR, Wisc. — Imagine a train so long it stretches all the way from Los Angeles to Shanghai, China … six times. That’s how long the train would be if all the intermodal shipments delivered...
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