Rail Industry News

(Source: Associated Press, October 17, 2017) SPOKANE, Wash. — Opponents have raised about $151,000 to defeat a Spokane ballot measure that would fine railroad operators for certain coal and crude oil rail shipments through the city's downtown core. Full story:...

(Source: Baltimore Sun, October 16, 2017) BALTIMORE, Md. — Two members of the Baltimore City Council want to ban new crude oil terminals from the city as part of an effort to limit the number of oil trains traveling through the area. Full story: Baltimore Sun

(Source: Huffington Post, October 16, 2017) LIVINGSTON, Mont. — For 25 years, Bill Phillips toiled as a machinist in the rail yard here — a fancy title, he jokes, for someone whose job was to play in the muck. Now 77 and suffering from asbestosis, a scarring of the...

(Source: Tribune-Review, October 16, 2017) PITTSBURGH, Pa. — One of the Norfolk Southern contracted workers who was injured Sunday when a car was struck by a train in Aspinwall has been released from the hospital. The other worker remains in the hospital with...

(Source: Bergen Record, October 16, 2017) BERGEN COUNTY, N.J. — NJ Transit has received conditional approval from federal regulators to begin testing a train collision avoidance system on its Morristown line. Full story: www.northjersey.com

(Source: CBC News, October 16, 2017) MONTREAL — The former Montreal Maine and Atlantic (MMA) employee in charge of training and safety said in the months before the 2013 Lac-Mégantic train disaster, MMA nearly doubled the number of convoys carrying crude oil through...

(Source: The Courier, October 16, 2017) FINDLAY, Ohio — CSX is planning to scale back operations at its big North Baltimore railyard, which has never generated the surge in Hancock County employment that was predicted when it opened six years ago. The railroad company...

(Source: CSX press release, October 17, 2017) JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — CSX today announced third quarter 2017 net earnings of $459 million, or $0.51 per share, up from $455 million, or $0.48 per share, in the same period last year. Excluding a $1 million restructuring...

(Source: Reuters, October 17, 2017) NEW YORK — CSX, the third-largest U.S. railroad operator, reported a slight rise in quarterly net profit that met analyst expectations on Tuesday, on revenue lifted by shipment of coal and consumer goods and higher freight rates....

(Source: Bloomberg, October 13, 2017) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is taking aim at Cardinal Health Inc. in the union’s quest to demand accountability from companies it says are responsible for fueling the U.S. opioid crisis, and it’s...

(Source: Minot Daily News, October 16, 2017) WILLISTON, N.D. — One BNSF main track reopened early Sunday morning near Williston and train traffic has been operating on it following a derailment there on Friday, according to Amy McBeth, Minneapolis, BNSF public...

(Source: Spokesman-Review, October 13, 2017) SPOKANE, Wash. — Supporters of the November ballot measure imposing fines on train cars carrying certain types of coal and oil through downtown have been hit with a complaint alleging noncompliance with campaign finance...

(Source: WTOP, October 14, 2017) BALTIMORE, Md. — Residents turned out in significant numbers at the Student Center at Bowie State University to catch a glimpse of the latest plans for a high-speed rail line between D.C. and Baltimore. Full story: www.wtop.com

(Source: International Brotherhood of Teamsters press release, October 13, 2017) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Many Teamsters volunteering in Puerto Rico were called to action because Hurricane Maria wasn’t just a disaster that desperately needed a response, but because it...

(Source: Deadline.com, October 13, 2017) HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — CSX is asking for a new trial after losing a civil case this past summer to the parents of Sarah Jones who was killed on a GA train trestle in 2014 while filming the Greg Allman biopic Midnight Rider, and...

(Source: Deseret News, October 14, 2017) SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — A new manufacturing facility in the city's northwest quadrant is projected to bring 1,000 new jobs to the area over the next decade. Full story: Deseret News

(Source: Times Free Press, October 15, 2017) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — "It's the flights, stupid." That's David Crockett's mantra when it comes to the long-sought bullet train between Chattanooga and Atlanta, an idea now at a key juncture with the completion of a lengthy...

(Source: Sandusky Register, October 13, 2017) BELLEVUE, Ohio — Drivers for a transportation company which services railroad crews will protest Saturday for increased wages and benefits. The company (Professional Transportation, Inc.’s (PTI) Bellevue branch) at most...

(Source: www.nj.com, October 13, 2017) NEWARK, N.J. — Gov. Chris Christie and federal lawmakers said Friday they're confident the federal government will make good on its promise to fund half of the almost $30 billion Gateway Project, which would build two new tunnels...

(Source: Associated Press, October 16, 2017) PITTSBURGH, Pa. — Three people have been injured after a train hit a car at a Pennsylvania railroad crossing. A spokesman for Norfolk Southern says two of those injured were contractors for the railroad company. Officials...