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Task force turns up suspicious container on train
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Task force turns up suspicious container on train (The following story by David Tewes appeared on the Victoria Advocate website on August 26, 2010.) BLOOMINGTON, Texas A task force looking for contraband on trains passing through the rail yard here may or may not have come up with something. "...
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Western RRs key as stuffed US grain elevators brace for huge harvest
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Western RRs key as stuffed US grain elevators brace for huge harvest (Reuters circulated the following story by Christine Stebbins on August 25, 2010.) CHICAGO U.S. grain handlers, already burdened with big wheat inventories, are bracing for a mammoth corn and soybean harvest that starts in a few...
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Metrolink offers $200 million settlement in Chatsworth rail disaster
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Metrolink offers $200 million settlement in Chatsworth rail disaster (The following story by Rich Connell appeared on the Los Angeles Times website on August 26, 2010.) LOS ANGELES Metrolink and its former train operating contractor on Wednesday offered to pay $200 million to victims of the 2008...
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BLET member enjoys new job working on the railroad
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BLET member enjoys new job working on the railroad (The following story by Michael Gelbwasser appeared on the Sun Chronicle website on August 23, 2010. David Gookin has been a member of BLET Division 57 in Boston since May 1, 2010.) NORTON, Mass. David Gookin's new job has given him a fresh perspectiv...
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Suicides on train tracks up: 'Copycatting is an element'
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Suicides on train tracks up: 'Copycatting is an element' (The following story by Mary Wisniewski appeared on the Chicago Tribune website on August 24, 2010.) CHICAGO Suicides on train tracks are up sharply in Illinois, and a state safety expert believes the heavily reported death of Metra executi...
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Locomotive engineers dodge dangerous situations daily
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Locomotive engineers dodge dangerous situations daily (The following story by Eric Horng appeared at abc7chicago.com on August 23, 2010. Peter J. Pelke II is Secretary-Treasurer of BLET Division 96 in Chicago.) CHICAGO Pedestrians running around downed gates and a semi-truck stopped on the tr...
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Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc. announces a new partnership with its new agency representative Aman Trading and Engineering (AT&E). Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc. (EMD) headquartered in North America today announced it has decided to enter into an agency agreement with Aman Trading and Engine...
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Furloughed crews called back?
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Train crews called back as traffic increases Friday, August 20, 2010 The U.S. Class I railroad workforce grew to 153,046 in July, up 1.76% from July 2009 and 1% from June 2010. But those figures do not reflect the extent of railroad traffic growth, which on a revenue ton-mile basis was up 6.4% in this ye...
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Lehigh Line attracts morans
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Drunk North Plainfield driver leaves passenger on railroad tracks as train approached By JOSHUA BURD STAFF WRITER August 20, 2010 SOUTH PLAINFIELD A North Plainfield man faces charges after he drove drunk for more than a mile along railroad tracks in the South Plainfield early Thursday and then le...
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Good times roll no more on New Orleans RR
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Good times roll no more on New Orleans RRThe board that oversees the embattled New Orleans Public Belt Railroad voted Wednesday (Aug. 18) to revoke employee credit cards, rein in take-home car use and halt free access to a pair of lavish vintage train cars, but commissioners adjourned without takin...
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UTUers headed to N.D. RR Hall of Fame
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UTUers headed to N.D. RR Hall of FameThe North Dakota State Railroad Museum will mark its 25th anniversary Sunday (Aug. 22) during its Railroad Days celebration, and as part of the celebration they will be honoring UTU retirees Walter Uhlman and Fred Smith, the Bismarck Tribune reports. (Uhlman an...
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Hope this ain't another "Tiny Town" train...
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Northwest Wanderings | Steam-train hobbyist just keeps on rollin' Growing up in Wenatchee with the Great Northern railroad line running just behind his parents' home, Nick Buell could not stay away from the back fence every time he heard the whistle. By Alan Berner Seattle Times staff photographe...
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Disabled sue NYC MTA on cuts
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Disabled sue NYC MTA on cutsThese cuts went way too deep, according to the New York Post. That's the charge from three disabled straphangers who yesterday sued the MTA in Brooklyn federal court for allegedly violating the federal Americans with Disabilities Act by. The suit demands that the transi...
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Railroad to feds: 'Don't harm us'
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Railroad to feds: 'Don't harm us' (The following story by Mark Young appeared on the North Platte Telegraph website on August 18, 2010.) NORTH PLATTE, Neb. High-level officials representing federal and state governments and railroads gathered together at the Sandhills Convention Center to fur...
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Crew shortages slowing NS, BNSF coal trains
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Crew shortages slowing NS, BNSF coal trainsRailroads have been slow to return furloughed train and engine workers, resulting in an uptick in missed [coal train] deliveries, especially on BNSF and Norfolk Southern, reports Argus Coal Daily. The harsh winter led to a slowdown in service in the Eas...
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Nail-studded cow tongue halts Texas trains
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Nail-studded cow tongue halts Texas trainsAUSTIN, Texas - MetroRail service was disrupted Monday morning after a package containing a cow tongue embedded with nails, a note and a photograph was found between the tracks in East Austin, the Statesman reports. Just after 7 a.m., a passerby noticed t...
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NTSB appoints administrative law judge
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NTSB appoints administrative law judge (The National Transportation Safety Board issued the following on August 16, 2010.) WASHINGTON, D.C. National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Deborah A.P. Hersman today announced the appointment of Alfonso J. Montano as an Administrative Law Jud...
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UTU, BLET to FRA: 'Nuts-a-plenty in U.S. of A.'
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UTU, BLET to FRA: 'Nuts-a-plenty in U.S. of A.'The UTU and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen may not know where all the nuts are, but the two unions know that not every nut has bolted from the United States -- although such may be news to the Northern New England Passenger Rail Auth...
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Old Irish bones may yield murderous secrets in Pa.
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Old Irish bones may yield murderous secrets in Pa. (The Associated Press circulated the following on August 16, 2010.) MALVERN, Pa. Young and strapping, the 57 Irish immigrants began grueling work in the summer of 1832 on the Philadelphia and Columbia railroad. Within weeks, all were dead of chole...
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New Jersey seeks $885 million for Northeast Corridor improvements
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New Jersey seeks $885 million for Northeast Corridor improvements (Bloomberg News circulated the following story by Stacie Servetah on August 13, 2010.) WASHINGTON, D.C. New Jersey, the most densely populated U.S. state, is seeking $885 million of federal funds for improvements on the Northea...
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Investors now take a serious look at railroads
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Why investors are switching to rail (July 2010) Monday, July 26, 2010 Solid earnings in a shaky economy is one reason. The emerging picture of a growth industry is another. By William C. Vantuono, Editor In a shaky economy, the railroads have been able to produce solid earnings, consistently outp...
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FRA praises SOFA, stresses need to prevent switching fatalities
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FRA praises SOFA, stresses need to prevent switching fatalities (The following appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on August 11, 2010.) Yesterday, Federal Railroad Administrator Joseph Szabo praised the work of the Switching Operations Fatality Analysis (SOFA) Working Group an...
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Nebraska Central RR rail bridge reopens in Norfolk, Neb.
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Nebraska Central RR rail bridge reopens in Norfolk, Neb. (The following story by Trisha Schulz appeared on the Omaha World-Herald website on August 12, 2010.) NORFOLK, Neb. A Nebraska Central locomotive pulling scrap metal to the Nucor Steel plant crossed a rebuilt railroad bridge Thursday morn...
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More surplus rail cars out of storage
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More surplus rail cars out of storage Users of railcars pulled another 5,808 out of storage in July from sidings and rail yards across North America, the strongest drawdown since April when freight traffic was stronger, reports the Journal of Commerce. The latest estimate from the Association...
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Penn students create ambitious plan for rail service
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Penn students create ambitious plan for rail service (The following story by Paul Nussbaum appeared on the Philadelphia Inquirer website on August 11, 2010.) PHILADELPHIA, Pa. A class of graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania has created a plan to rebuild the Northeast Corridor as a...
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