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38 workers strike deal with CTA to keep jobs
(The following story by Kim Janssen appeared on the Chicago Sun-Times website on February 8, 2010.) CHICAGO — A tentative deal that allows 38 CTA maintenance workers to keep their jobs in return for concessions is a sign that other unions may be ready to cut a deal...
Railroad shares mixed at close of February 8 trading
(The Associated Press circulated the following on February 8, 2010.) NEW YORK — Shares of some top railroads companies were mixed at the close of trading: Burlington Northern rose $.02 or percent, to $99.74. CSX fell $.41 or 1.0 percent, to $42.51. Canadian National...
Rail could be answer to I-81 gridlock, report says
(The following story by Jeff Sturgeon appeared on The Roanoke Times website on February 9, 2010.) ROANOKE, Va. — Virginia could eliminate about one in three trucks from Interstate 81 with extensive --and expensive -- rail improvements, a consultant says. Given the...
Opinion: High-speed rail grants favor the prepared
(The following column by James McCommons appeared on the Huffington Post website on February 9, 2010. He is the author of “Waiting on a Train: The Embattled Future of Passenger Rail Service — A Year Spent Riding Across America.”) It's no surprise that only a handful...
Storms slamming surface transport
(The following story by John D. Boyd appeared on The Journal of Commerce website on February 8, 2010.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Three days after a massive winter storm struck the mid-Atlantic region, freight transportation systems were still trying to recover to normal...
Federal income tax and Railroad Retirement benefits
(The U.S. Railroad Retirement Board issued the following on February 3, 2010.) The following questions and answers describe the tax statements issued by the Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) each January for Federal income tax purposes. Railroad retirement beneficiaries...
CSX train traps 66-year-old Florida woman in her yard
(The following story by Larry Hannan appeared on the Florida Times-Union website on February 5, 2010.) CALLAHAN, Fla. — Aretha Brown is a 66-year old woman with back trouble who has had to crawl between two train cars almost every time she has left her yard this year....
Rail a part of dramatic transportation changes in the works for 2011 Super Bowl in Texas
(The following story by Jeff Mosier appeared on The Dallas Morning News website on February 7, 2010.) FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Super Bowl events next year will require a dramatic but temporary overhaul of parts of the North Texas transportation system, including a...
Arson suspected as fire damages NS maintenance equipment
(The following story by Christopher Magan appeared on the Dayton Daily News website on February 5, 2010.) FAIRBORN, Ohio – Police and firefighters are investigating what appears to be an intentionally set blaze that damaged one and destroyed another railroad track...
UP’s coal train loadings continued to lag in January
(The following appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on February 5, 2010.) Union Pacific Railroad’s January coal train loadings reflect lagging coal demand as utilities continue to maintain large stockpiles. Last month, the Class I loaded 975 trains in the...
Union Pacific replacing ties in Arizona
(The following story by Paul Ingram appeared on The Arizona Daily Star website on February 6, 2010.) TUCSON, Ariz. — Like a wood pile fit for a giant, thousands of wooden railroad ties are resting in stacks each the size of a house. The ties are part of a rail line...
Standard & Poor’s upgrades BNSF rating
(The following story by John D. Boyd appeared on The Journal of Commerce website on February 5, 2010.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Credit evaluator Standard & Poor's Ratings Services raised its long-term ratings on debt issued by BNSF Railway, and said after acquisition by...
Genesee & Wyoming 4Q slides; demand firms up
(The Associated Press circulated the following on February 8, 2010.) GREENWICH, Conn. — Regional freight railroad operator Genesee & Wyoming Inc. said Monday its fourth-quarter earnings fell 28 percent as a weak economy knocked down demand for the goods it hauls. But...
Michigan short line marks its first anniversary
(The following story by Jef Rietsma appeared on the Sturgis Journal on February 6, 2010.) WHITE PIGEON, Mich. — A Kalamazoo-based railroad is approaching its first anniversary of service on its Elkhart-to-Grand Rapids route, and officials with the Grand Elk Railroad...
Amtrak plans concern Galesburg
(The following story by John R. Pulliam appeared on The Register-Mail website on Febraury 6, 2010.) GALESBURG, Ill. — Amtrak ridership has been booming in recent years in Galesburg, staying just under the 100,000 mark in 2008 and 2009. A big question for the future is...
Ridership up on Milwaukee-Chicago Amtrak line
(The following appeared on the Pierce County Herald website on February 7, 2010.) ELLSWORTH, Wisc. — An Amtrak spokesman says more poeple are deciding to skip the crowded highways and take the train to Chicago. Ridership on the Hiawatha service from Milwaukee was up...
Montana’s Amtrak ridership dips
(The following story by Kim Skornogoski appeared on the Great Falls Tribune website on February 8, 2010.) GREAT FALLS, Mont. — With hands clutched tightly around their travel dollars, it should be no surprise that far fewer people rode Amtrak in Montana last year....
Some Amtrak trains to B.C. during Olympics are full
(The following story by Jared Paben appeared on The Bellingham Herald website on January 6, 2010.) BELLINGHAM, Wash. — The two daily trains between Bellingham and Vancouver, B.C., during the Winter Olympics are about 45 percent full, but some trains have no seats...
Remote-control trains cross city streets in Lafayette, Ind.
(The following story by Bob Scott appeared on the Journal and Courier website on February 7, 2010.) LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A reader called the Journal & Courier recently with a comment about signs recently posted at Norfolk Southern railroad crossings on the southside of...
Questions and answers on Ohio’s passenger train
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Matt Leingang on February 7, 2010.) COLUMBUS, Ohio — The state is to get $400 million in federal stimulus money to restore passenger train service among its majorcities, part of a plan to build a national...
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