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Alaska RR CEO explains 'lean and mean' cuts
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Alaska RR CEO explains 'lean and mean' cutsThe Alaska Railroad Corp. stands to lose millions if nothing is done, according to the Anchorage Daily News. Railroad officials say a decline in tourism meant a significant drop in revenue this summer. And the Flint Hills petroleum refinery in North Pole h...
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Sleep scientist nominated to NTSB post
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Sleep scientist nominated to NTSB postWASHINGTON -- Mark R. Rosekind, an internationally respected sleep scientist, has been nominated by President Obama to be a member of the National Transportation Safety Board. Senate confirmation is required. Obama said, in making the nomination, that Ro...
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With suicides, locomotive engineers long haunted by horror, helplessness
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With suicides, locomotive engineers long haunted by horror, helplessness (The following story by Steve Hendrix appeared on the Washington Post website on October 2, 2009. Bruce Evans is Legislative Representative of BLET Division 14 in Washington, D.C. John Tolman is the BLETs National Vice Pr...
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UTU, BLET oppose guns on Amtrak
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UTU, BLET oppose guns on AmtrakThe UTU and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, both of which represent Amtrak's train crews, have joined to oppose a Senate amendment allowing firearms in passengers' checked luggage. Citing safety, operational, and financial concerns, UTU I...
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Members: Complete this survey on rail safety
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Members: Complete this survey on rail safetyThe UTU Rail Safety Task Force explained the value of documentation in its Safety Alert #4. (See link at the bottom of this article that will take you directly to Safety Alert #4.) Now, to document some of the issues the UTU Rail Safety Task Force believe...
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Railroads companies shares down at the close of trading
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Railroads companies shares down at the close of trading (The Associated Press circulated the following on September 25, 2009.) NEW YORK Shares of some top railroads companies were down at the close of trading: Burlington Northern fell $1.41 or 1.7 percent, to $80.57. CSX fell $1.39 or 3.1 percent,...
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Railroads planning for economy to get back on track
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Railroads planning for economy to get back on track (The following story by Leslie Wimmer appeared on the Fort Worth Business Press website on September 28, 2009.) FORT WORTH, Texas Rows of locomotives are still parked at Union Pacific Railroads Davidson Rail Yard under the Hulen Street bridge in F...
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Death on the rails in L.A.
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Death on the rails in L.A.LOS ANGELES -- Although Metrolink safety lapses drew national attention last year when 25 people were killed in a head-on collision with a freight train, many more have died from commuter trains hitting automobiles and pedestrians, The Los Angeles Times reported. Over th...
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New eco-warriors target railroads
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New eco-warriors target railroadsLOS ANGELES - It is 8:30 a.m. on a Sunday. Along streets of grimy stucco bungalows with bougainvillea, American flags and "Beware of Dog" signs on chain-link fences, a couple of residents are hosing down lawns, the Los Angeles Times reports. It ought to...
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Railroad re-regulation said coming soon
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Railroad re-regulation said coming soonJACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A Morgan Stanley analyst says the railroad industry could face re-regulation as soon as the end of the month, according to the Jacksonville Business Journal. William Green wrote that he expects the draft version of by Senator Jay Rocke...
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BNSF Railway worker killed in Texas
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BNSF Railway worker killed in TexasHEREFORD, Texas - A worker with the BNSF Railway was killed Wednesday (Sept. 23) near Hereford, the KFDA Web site reports. The Deaf Smith County Justice of the Peace's office says Larry Craig Green was working near the track around 6:30 Wednesday morning when he wa...
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A Brother Passed Away.
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Boxer pushes for second locomotive engineer
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Boxer pushes for second locomotive engineerWASHINGTON - A year after 25 people died in Metrolink's deadliest crash, Sen. Barbara Boxer is again calling upon the passenger rail line to add a second engineer on all of its trains, the Press Enterprise reports. In the aftermath of the September 2008 wr...
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We lost one of our own last night
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The conductor on Q439 was struck by a train last night while tying down his train at Darby. Wednesday, September 24, 2008 | 7:07 AM SOUTHWEST PHILADELPHIA - September 24, 2008 (WPVI) -- The conductor of a freight train was struck and killed by another train in Southwest Philadelphia. The Action Cam...
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He Wasn't Qualified
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Bell may have rung from doomed Old 97 train engineMonday, September 21, 2009By Jim Schlosser Special to the News & RecordAccompanying PhotosGreensboro Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society Photo Caption: Is this the bell from Old 97, known as The Fast Mail train, which plunged o...
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Hoffa: Nation’s rails remain vulnerable to attack
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Hoffa: Nations rails remain vulnerable to attack (The following column by Teamsters General President James P. Hoffa appeared on the National Journal website on September 17, 2009.) WASHINGTON, D.C. Our nations rail system remains vulnerable to a terrorist attack. The rail workers we represen...
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Freight coalition wants transport bill soon
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Freight coalition wants transport bill soon (The following story by John D. Boyd appeared on the Journal of Commerce website on September 14, 2009.) WASHINGTON, D.C. Congress must extend a crucial program due to expire in two weeks to fund highway and other transport projects around the nation, a f...
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Ex-Kansas City Southern executive gets severance
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Ex-Kansas City Southern executive gets severance (The following story by Randy Heaster appeared on the Kansas City Star website on September 14, 2009.) KANSAS CITY, Mo. A senior officer who recently left Kansas City Southern received a year's salary as severance. Scott E. Arvidson, Kansas City S...
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Fallen Brother
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D.C. subway worker dies after hit by trainWASHINGTON -- A worker on the Washington Metro transit system has died of injuries from being struck by a train last week, the Associated Press reported. Metro officials say 44-year-old John Moore, of Arlington, Va., died Monday of injuries suffered in Thu...
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This must be why tracks everywhere else on LETCO suck
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W. Va. rail inspectors named 'the best'CHARLESTON, W. Va. - For the third year in a row, West Virginia's railway inspectors have been named the best in the country, the Metro News reports. Governor Joe Manchin recently honored the state Railroad Safety staff members for receiving "Exception...
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RR can't hide fire from traffic camera
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Aston Tow Yard Bursts Into FlamesASTON (CBS 3) CBSFlames erupted at a Delaware County tow yard Wednesday morning. Traffic cameras spotted heavy smoke and flames at a tow yard in Aston. Several vehicles were apparently damaged in the blaze, but no injuries were reported. The incident remains under...
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Metrolink unveils plaque honoring crash victims
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Metrolink unveils plaque honoring crash victimsLOS ANGELES -- Officials unveiled a commemorative plaque Tuesday in downtown Los Angeles dedicated to those who lost their lives in Metrolink train accidents, The Los Angeles Times reported. Metrolink board Chairman Keith Millhouse said the pla...
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Metrolink struggles with reforms
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Metrolink struggles with reformsLOS ANGELES -- As the anniversary of the Sept. 12 Chatsworth train disaster approaches, officials with Southern California's sprawling commuter rail service are facing a vexing array of technical, financial and potential legal challenges as they struggle to d...
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Engine-mounted camera shows death crash
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Engine-mounted camera shows death crashCANTON, Mich. - Video from a surveillance camera on the Amtrak train that collided with a car in Canton on July 9 killing five young people clearly shows that the car drove around a downed crossing gate into the trains path, the Detroit Free Press reports. The v...
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Train strikes another in D.C. rail yard
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Train strikes another in D.C. rail yardWASHINGTON -- Officials with Washington's Metro transit system say two employees have been injured after a rail car struck another train in the West Falls Church rail yard, the Associated Press reported. Metro officials said Thursday that a train traveling...
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