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Talgo will return to Milwaukee to refurbish trains for Los Angeles
(Source: Milwaukee Business Journal, September 26, 2016) MILWAUKEE, Wisc. — Train manufacturer Talgo Inc. will return to a facility in Milwaukee to refurbish trains under a $73 million contract with the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority. Full story: Milwaukee...
Waste workers from Teamsters Local 137 ratify first contract
(Source: International Brotherhood of Teamsters press release, September 26, 2016) REDDING, Calif. — Drivers at Waste Management, Inc. in Redding, California voted unanimously to ratify their first contract. The Teamster members, who are represented by Local 137,...
LIRR stations in Jamaica, Hicksville to get $186 million upgrades
(Source: New York Daily News, September 26, 2016) NEW YORK — Work to overhaul two stations on the Long Island Rail Road is moving forward. Gov. Cuomo says a $65 million project to construct a new platform and tracks at the Jamaica station in Queens has been awarded....
Rep. Herrera Beutler presses feds to study oil train explosions
(Source: The Daily News, September 27, 2016) LONGVIEW, Wash. — In the wake of the oil train derailment in the Columbia River Gorge, Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler is pressing the U.S. Department of Transportation study ways to reduce fire and explosion risks during oil...
Teamster women in the spotlight at annual conference
(Source: International Brotherhood of Teamsters press release, September 25, 2016) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The 2016 Teamsters Women’s Conference wrapped up its final day in Hollywood, Calif., on Saturday with an address from Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. Garcetti...
U.S.-NAFTA freight by rail movement rose in July
(Source: Progressive Railroading, September 26, 2016) All transportation modes except rail carried less cross-border freight by value in July compared with the same period last year, which resulted in a 10 percent decrease to $83.7 billion in the total current dollar...
Hailed a hero, homeless man who found bombs by New Jersey train station gets apartment, job prospects
(Source: Washington Post, September 24, 2016) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Lee Parker needed a backpack for a job interview the next day. He had been homeless for several years and carried his few possessions in a plastic bag. So when he and a friend came across a new backpack...
UP to defer breach of Great Salt Lake causeway
(Source: Associated Press, September 25, 2016) SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — Union Pacific Railroad is postponing a planned break up of its 21-mile causeway on the Great Salt Lake. Full story: Washington Times
Teamsters take action at annual Women’s Conference
(Source: International Brotherhood of Teamsters press release, September 23, 2016) LOS ANGELES — The Teamsters Women’s Conference continued on its second day Friday with an address from Teamsters General-Secretary Treasurer Ken Hall, as more than 1,300 Teamster women...
Amtrak’s slow ride from Philly to Pittsburgh
(Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, September 23, 2016) PHILADELPHIA — Late afternoon and the great haunches of the Allegheny Mountains loomed beside the train's westward winding path. Full story: Philadelphia Inquirer
13-car derailment prompts hazmat precautions at UP yard in Eugene
(Source: Register Guard, September 26, 2016) EUGENE, Ore. — Thirteen railcars, one of them containing a hazardous, flammable liquid, derailed on a Union Pacific train Sunday, prompting a partial evacuation, detouring traffic well into the night and stalling Amtrak...
As railroads and transportation companies seek to expand, their construction plans face opposition
(Source: Omaha World-Herald, September 25, 2016) OMAHA, Neb. — For the country’s railroads and trucking firms, it is a tough sell getting anything built these days. Full story: Omaha World-Herald
Rail conductor applicant obese but not impaired, Ninth Circuit rules
(Source: Courthouse News Service, September 23, 2016) NEW YORK — Too overweight to hire, but not enough to claim physical impairment. The Ninth Circuit reached this finding in upholding rejection of Human Rights Act violations. Full story: Courthouse News Service
Texas high-speed rail land dispute lands in Houston court
(Source: Houston Chronicle, September 23, 2016) HOUSTON — A rose is a rose is a rose, but a railroad might actually have to exist to have total legal rights in Texas. Full story: Houston Chronicle
Hoffa, Teamster women rally in support of University of California workers
(Source: International Brotherhood of Teamsters press release, September 23, 2016) LOS ANGELES — Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa, Teamsters General Secretary-Treasurer Ken Hall and Local 2010 Secretary-Treasurer Jason Rabinowitz led hundreds of Teamster women on...
Railway Age: Union Pacific’s focus is on the future
(Source: Railway Age, September 25, 2016) NEW YORK — Cover story, September issue: Like most Class I railroads, Union Pacific has had to make adjustments to deal with sharp declines in coal and other commodities. While its $3.75 billion 2016 capital program is lower...
China developing 310 mph passenger trains to lead export of high-speed rail technology
(Source: South China Morning Post, September 25, 2016) BEIJING — China is designing its next generation of trains that can carry passengers at a top speed of 500 kilometers (310 miles) an hour and cargo at 250km/h, with wheels that can adjust to fit different track...
Congress wants TSA to help secure Amtrak and buses
(Source: Bloomberg, September 26, 2016) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Transportation Security Administration is one of those federal agencies that tends to inspire intense reactions among the traveling public. It’s a bureaucracy that interacts with millions of airline...
Railroad stock rebound signals good things for the economy
(Source: Dallas Morning News, September 26, 2016) DALLAS — Stock prices of companies in one of my favorite industries — railroads — were obliterated last year, so it's nice to see them back on the mend. Since January, railroad companies have rebounded, which could be...
New deadline set for $177 million passenger rail grant
(Source: Quad-City Times, September 23, 2016) MOLINE, Ill. — Illinois has a new deadline for an agreement with the federal government designed to provide $177 million for a planned passenger rail line between Moline and Chicago. Full story: www.qconline.com
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