Rail Industry News
BNSF, MRL move 10,000th Boeing 737 fuselage
(Source: Railway Age, February 20, 2018) NEW YORK — An aviation milestone has been achieved thanks to a half-century of railroad transport. Spirit AeroSystems announced on Feb. 14 that the 10,000th 737 fuselage had left its factory in Wichita, Kans., and was en route...
Irving-owned railway gets disclosure on charges triggered by Lac-Megantic probes
(Source: CBC News, February 20, 2018) MONTREAL — New Brunswick Southern Railway postponed entering pleas Tuesday on 24 charges of violating the Transportation of Dangerous Goods Act. Prosecutors say the charges arose from a Transport Canada investigation that was...
A closer look at the route, financing for the Texas bullet train
(Source: ABC 13, February 20, 2018) HOUSTON — Texas High Speed Rail is on track to revolutionize travel between Houston and Dallas, but it's not without controversy. Hundreds of people came to public meetings earlier this month to protest the plans. We are taking a...
NS Chairman Squires sells $1.5 million in company stock
(Source: The Lincolnian, February 21, 2018) NEW YORK — Norfolk Southern Corp. Chairman James A. Squires sold 10,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Thursday, February 1. The stock was sold at an average price of $150.10, for a total value of...
BNSF SoCal yard project headed to state Supreme Court
(Source: Railway Age, February 20, 2018) NEW YORK — The California Supreme Court will hear an appeal in the case of BNSF Railway’s proposed $500-million Southern California International Gateway rail yard, an intermodal project decades in the making. Full story:...
Residents settle civil cases against CSX for 2015 derailment in Maryville; Suits against Union Tank Car still pending
(Source: The Daily Times, February 21, 2018) MARYVILLE, Tenn. — Several Blount County residents suing CSX Transportation Inc. over a train derailment in 2015 have dropped their cases against the railroad, but are set to go to trial next week against the owner of the...
Editorial: Proposed Amtrak cuts must be derailed
(Source: Utica Observer-Dispatch, February 20, 2018) UTICA, N.Y. — Several weeks ago a man sat with his grandson at Utica’s Union Station waiting for the train back to Buffalo. The pair had left the western New York city early that morning, rode the rails to Utica and...
CN’s traffic jam dulls shine of ‘gold standard’ efficiency
(Source: Bloomberg, February 21, 2018) NEW YORK — Canadian National Railway Co., the longtime paragon of efficiency for North American railroads, is losing some of its luster as it struggles to catch up with a surprise surge in demand. Full story: Bloomberg
NTSB Chair: No more delays on railway safety
(Source: The State opinion column by NTSB Chairman Robert Sumwalt, February 20, 2018) COLUMBIA, S.C. — Although the investigation is ongoing into the tragic Amtrak passenger train crash in Cayce, we knew immediately that a rail switch had been improperly set,...
NJ Transit’s hidden danger: Bad brakes, bare wires, rotten parts
(Source: Bloomberg, February 21, 2018) NEW YORK — Federal inspectors found scores of New Jersey Transit train cars riddled with fire risks, faulty brakes and electrical hazards as they scrutinized the troubled railroad that brings 95,000 workers to Manhattan daily....
Bullet train sparks fight as old as Texas: Progress vs. tradition
(Source: Houston Chronicle, February 16, 2018) HOUSTON — William Shelton will not let go of the past, even if it is in the way of someone else's future. He has spent more than five years rebuilding his family's ancestral home, board by board, and has no intention of...
Investigation, cleanup continue following NS derailment at Attica, N.Y.
(Source: Courier Observer, February 17, 2018) ATTICA, N.Y. — Norfolk Southern continued to make progress Friday on cleanup and recovery from a Thursday afternoon train derailment that left an engineer and conductor with unspecified, non-life-threatening injuries and a...
Hoffa: Senate’s failure to address DACA leaves lives of thousands of kids in limbo
(Source: International Brotherhood of Teamsters press release, February 16, 2018) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The following is a statement from Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa about the Senate’s failure yesterday to approve legislation that would have created a pathway...
Editorial: Amtrak to NJ Transit: No PTC, no Penn Station
(Source: Editorial at the Bergen Record, February 18, 2018) BERGEN COUNTY, N.J. — Amtrak has just increased the urgency to install positive train control throughout the NJ Transit system. If NJ Transit does not make the Dec. 31 deadline, Amtrak will not let the...
Analyst says shippers switching to CP as CN service deteriorates
(Source: Canadian Press, February 15, 2018) MONTREAL — Service on Canadian National Railway Co. has deteriorated to the point that clients are switching their cargoes to rival Canadian Pacific Railway, Walter Spracklin, a financial analyst for RBC Dominion Securities,...
UP facing dozens of lawsuits alleging cancer-causing substances in workplace
(Source: Omaha World-Herald, February 15, 2018) OMAHA, Neb. — A dozen former Union Pacific workers have filed identical lawsuits in U.S. District Court in Omaha, saying they were exposed to cancer-causing materials in violation of federal law while working the trains,...
Railroad workers who helped save kidnapped 4-year-old recount rescue
(Source: ABC 33 40, February 16, 2018) RIVERSIDE, Ala. — For contractor Donnie Peppers and Norfolk Southern employees Mark Burke and Chris Jackson, Wednesday started out like any other day. However, a routine track inspection and a phone call would change the course...
Amtrak employees ratify SMART TD contract
(Source: Progressive Railroading, February 16, 2018) Amtrak conductors, assistant conductors and yardmasters represented by SMART Transportation Division General Committees of Adjustment have ratified a tentative agreement that was reached last month. Full story:...
NTSB: LIRR safety lapses had role in train foreman’s death
(Source: New York Post, February 16, 2018) NEW YORK — Long Island Rail Road management doesn’t encourage its workers to follow safety rules, and that contributed to the death of a train foreman last summer, federal investigators said on Thursday. Full story: New York...
On American railroads, switch and speed mistakes cause an accident every other day
(Source: Post and Courier, February 17, 2018) CHARLESTON, S.C. — Every three days, somewhere in America, someone makes a mistake with the switches that control where trains go. And those mistakes cause accidents — usually because a locomotive is put on the wrong...
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