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Teens who beat UTUer criticize cops
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Teens who beat UTUer criticize copsTwo Valley Stream, N.Y., teenagers criticized police and prosecutors Wednesday after a grand jury voted not to indict them on charges they beat up a UTU member in what police had said was a possible racial attack, Newsday reports. Domineek Washington and Jimmy Bl...
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NMB’s Ernie Dubester appointed to position at Federal Labor Relations Authority
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NMBs Ernie Dubester appointed to position at Federal Labor Relations Authority (The Federal Labor Relations Authority issued the following on August 26, 2009.) WASHINGTON, D.C. Carol Waller Pope, Chairman of the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA), announces that, on August 17, 2009, Er...
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'Do railroads have a free ride?'
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'Do railroads have a free ride?'The railroad industry is an old-time business, and for a while it was indeed stuck in the past -- choked by regulation and constantly beset with bankruptcies. Then railroads won more freedom to dictate prices and, as one of the only industries exempt from federal anti...
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Engineer, KCS sued by man who lost wife, child
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Engineer, KCS sued by man who lost wife, childA man who says his wife and unborn child were killed after being hit by a train is suing the railway company and engineer he blames for the accident, the Madison County Record reports. Matthew S. Balven filed a lawsuit Aug. 20 in Madison County Circuit Court...
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Railroad worker injured in Indiana
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Railroad worker injured in IndianaPOSEY CO., Ind. - A railroad worker was hurt in an accident on tracks in Posey County, the WFIE Web site reports. It happened around 4:00 p.m. Monday afternoon near Mt. Vernon in an area where the train engines switch loads. Posey County deputies said an engine nudge...
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Put PTC safety first, labor tells FRA
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Put PTC safety first, labor tells FRAAs the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) works toward having effective safety regulations in place for the operation of positive train control prior to its 2015 congressionally mandated implementation, the agency is reaching out for feedback to its ear...
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Rail freight jumps to five-month high
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Rail freight jumps to five-month highMajor U.S. railroads enjoyed the highest bulk carloadings in five months during the week ending Aug. 15, propelled by 2009 peak volume in scrap and metal ores needed in early stages of manufacturing, and the strongest rail shipments of finished vehicles since...
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Member Christopher A. Hart designated NTSB Vice Chairman
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Member Christopher A. Hart designated NTSB Vice Chairman (The National Transportation Safety Board issued the following on August 20, 2009.) WASHINGTON, D.C. President Barack Obama has designated National Transportation Safety Board Member Christopher A. Hart as the agency's Vice Chairman...
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Railroads increase employment in July
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Railroads increase employment in JulyThe nations top railroads increased employment slightly from mid-June to mid-July. Their first increase this year came mostly in train and engine crews, according to reports they filed with the Surface Transportation Board as reported by John Boyd in the Jo...
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UTU member wins verdict against UP
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UTU member wins verdict against UPOMAHA, Neb. - A Denver-area conductor has won a $2.8 million jury verdict against Union Pacific Railroad, arguing that he had suffered brain injuries when the locomotive he was parking by remote control in a rail yard ran over two explosive devices improperly plac...
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Metro wary of letting computers control trains
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Metro wary of letting computers control trainsWASHINGTON - Metrorail passengers frustrated with jerkier rides and longer waits for trains after June's Red Line crash can expect those irritations to continue indefinitely as operators run every train in the system manually, the Washington Post...
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Rail Safety Alert #4: Documentation
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Rail Safety Alert #4: DocumentationThe value of detailed documentation can never be overstated. UTU members have been empowered to address the issue of harassment and intimidation though federal whistleblower protection that is written into law. This protection already has had a positive im...
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Number 1's
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#1's or 1 spots. How often do ya see #1, other than in the mirror? -- Edited by Calvin on Monday 17th of August 2009 02:37:26 PM
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Train engineers traumatized by fatal collisions with pedestrians and motorists
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Train engineers traumatized by fatal collisions with pedestrians and motorists Sunday, August 16, 2009By Michael Tarm, The Associated Press CHICAGO -- What haunts Charlie Lough most is the man's eyes. A year into his dream job as a train engineer, Mr. Lough suddenly found himself yanking frantic...
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FRA's proposed PTC rule would 'impose a financial burden beyond what Congress intended,' AAR says
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FRA's proposed PTC rule would 'impose a financial burden beyond what Congress intended,' AAR says (The following appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on August 14, 2009.) Yesterday, the Association of American Railroads (AAR) urged the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) to fai...
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So now that all us railroads are not fatigued anymore.
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Seems we eliminated the need for the engineers extraboard or at least greatly reduced its need so we can cut another probably 30 jobs here in a month or so, the pool crews are getting killed because of turning on there rests and flipping out of home only to lay in the AFHT for 15 hours 55 minutes and repeati...
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Can railroads end recession?
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Can railroads end the recession? (The following appeared on the Seeking Alpha website on April 17, 2009.) Can the railroads end the recession? Here is a plan that could help the country get back on its feet. There are a few steps that each railroad needs to take that would create jobs and make our countr...
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Track defects top cause of ’09 accidents
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Track defects top cause of 09 accidentsDefects in railroad tracks were the leading cause of train accidents in the first five months of 2009, says a Federal Railroad Administration report, according to John Boyd in the Journal of Commerce. While there were fewer track defects than in the same 2008 p...
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'US rails will deteriorate without federal funds'
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'US rails will deteriorate without federal funds'WASHINGTON - State transit officials told U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday that without additional federal funds, rail systems nationwide will deteriorate further, the Dow Jones News Service reports. The transit executives called on lawmakers to pr...
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Criminal charges to be filed against LIRR engineer
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Criminal charges to be filed against LIRR engineerMINEOLA, N.Y. -- A New York prosecutor says criminal charges are being brought against a Long Island Rail Road engineer and the passenger he allegedly allowed to drive a train, the Associated Press reported. Nassau County District Attorney Kathl...
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MRL workers on emergency furlough
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MRL workers on emergency furloughAbout 90 Montana Rail Link employees in the Laurel-Billings area are on emergency furlough because of the slowdown in train traffic caused by a tunnel collapse near Helena, The Billings Gazette reported. MRL spokeswoman Lynda Frost said about 70 workers in the op...
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Newspaper follows UTU member at controls
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Newspaper follows UTU member at controlsMERCED, Calif. - Amtrak engineer Tim Monahan awaits word from conductor Gary Fritz, and it comes soon by radio, the conductor saying: "Hiball Merced on a green signal indication," according to Merced Sun-Star correspondent Bill Sanford. It's...
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How does he sneak in here?
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Troll. Again! Son of a bitch, he sneaks in just like a bad penny...he just shows up! Rob? Get busy put up firewalls, spam filters, anti-virus thingies, and every internets defensive mechanism at our disposal, but whatever ya do, lock Troll out! Now! Damnit!
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FRA's Joe Szabo speaks out
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FRA's Joe Szabo speaks out(The following on-the-record interview with FRA Administrator Joe Szabo appears in the July issue of Railway Age magazine. Szabo previously was UTU Illinois state legislative director.) WASHINGTON -- Federal Railroad Administrator Joseph C. Szabo, a fifth-generat...
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Crew killed in Iowa train wreck
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Conductor, engineer killed in yard accidentBETTENDORF, Ia. - A train conductor and engineer died early Tuesday (July 14) in a freight train crash in Bettendorf, the Des Moines Register reports. National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Keith Holloway said a Dakota Minnesota & Easter...
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