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PTC: An FRA perspective
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PTC: An FRA perspectiveThe railroad industry, carriers and suppliers alike, is facing a daunting task to meet the U.S. governments mandate for Positive Train Control functioning on all lines on which passenger trains or TIH (toxic inhalation hazard) traffic moves. The industry, through the Rai...
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Division 13 Local Chairman needs your support
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Division 13 Local Chairman needs your support CLEVELAND, May 1 BLET members are asked to lend some moral support to Division 13 Local Chairman Charlie Sheets and his family. His 18-year-old son, Chad, is currently in intensive care with significant head trauma following a severe automobile accid...
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Update on extended rail unemployment benefits
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Update on extended rail unemployment benefitsMembers laid-off from railroad carriers and who have exhausted or nearing exhaustion of Railroad Unemployment benefits are concerned as to when the extended benefits enacted into law by Congress will begin to be paid. The short answer, says the Rai...
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Senate confirms UTU's Szabo to FRA
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Senate confirms UTU's Szabo to FRAWASHINGTON -- The Senate late Wednesday, April 29, confirmed UTU Illinois State Legislative Director Joe Szabo to be the 13th administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration. An informal oath-of-office ceremony is contemplated for Tuesday, May 5, allo...
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DM&E trains pause on day of mourning
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DM&E trains pause on day of mourningSIOUX FALLS, S.D. - Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad employees plan to join their counterparts on the Canadian Pacific Railway and pause to honor workers who have died or have been injured in the workplace, according to the Associated Press. The obser...
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Rail freight loadings continue steep decline
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Rail freight loadings continue steep declineWASHINGTON -- The Association of American Railroads (AAR) said today (April 23) that carload freight volumes and intermodal traffic volumes were down again on United States railroads for the week ending April 18 compared to the same week last year, We...
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U.S. stimulus revives bullet train plans
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U.S. stimulus revives bullet train plansHOUSTON - Plans for high-speed railroads linking major Texas cities are picking up steam once again, 15 years after the idea ground to a halt for lack of funding, according to the Houston Chronicle. The federal stimulus package includes $8 billion to develo...
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Nine Weeks!!
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Just heard on the news that GM is going to shut down for 9 weeks, 3 times the normal down time to retool for the new year models.
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Date: 04/14/09 20:11 Re: More Pools Cut at South Morrill... Author: mark00753 Well, it's 146 to Bill but we can run thru to Antelope Mine, North Antelope/Rochelle Complex, South Black Thunder, Black Thunder, and Jacob's Ranch. The pay is either less than 188 miles which is shy of Converse Jct where y...
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What Will The Scab Union Do Then.......??
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4/13/2009 R&D TTCI launches unmanned tests at FAST trackEarlier this year, the Transportation Technology Center Inc. (TTCI) began unmanned testing operations at the Facility for Accelerated Service Testing (FAST) in Pueblo, Colo. The center has gradually automated train operation...
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Szabo nomination to FRA moves forward
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Szabo nomination to FRA moves forwardWASHINGTON -- The Senate Commerce Committee on April 21 will consider the Obama nomination of UTU Illinois State Legislative Director Joe Szabo to be the next federal railroad administrator. If the committee reports favorably on the nomination, it will move...
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FreightCar America plans work stoppage
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FreightCar America plans work stoppageROANOKE, Va. - Railroad-car manufacturer FreightCar America Inc. announced Monday afternoon that it plans to suspend production at its Roanoke manufacturing plant when workers complete their current work orders, according to the Roanoke Times. The Chi...
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Railroad worker seriously injured in Council Bluffs
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Railroad worker loses legs in accident (The following appeared on the Daily Nonpareil website on September 12.) COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa A 52-year-old man lost both of his legs in a railroad accident Wednesday night. Council Bluffs police officers were dispatched to 16th Avenue and Main Street for an...
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Railroad Crossing in North Dakota
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Recession takes toll on Iron Range railroad
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Recession takes toll on Iron Range railroad (The following story by Peter Passi appeared on the Duluth News Tribune website on April 2, 2009.) DULUTH, Minn. The slowdown at taconite plants across the Iron Range is resulting in the loss of more than just miners jobs. Northland railroad workers are fe...
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Rail fatalities up in 2008-2009; FRA calls for help
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Rail fatalities up in 2008-2009; FRA calls for help By Jo Strang Federal Railroad Administration Associate Administrator for Railroad Safety/ Chief Safety Officer WASHINGTON, D.C. While we have made outstanding progress together in improving the rate of safety-related accidents, injuries a...
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Man charged with theft of RRB money
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Man charged with theft of RRB moneyMYRTLE BEACH, S.C. -- U.S. Attorney W. Walter Wilkins stated today that Samuel R. Pickerel, of Myrtle Beach, was indicted by a federal grand jury for theft of $56,255.98 in government funds from the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board. Authorities allege that Pickere...
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Worker struck by locomotive, injured in tunnel project
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Worker struck by locomotive, injured in tunnel project (The following appeared on the Seattle Times website on March 31, 2009.) SEATTLE A worker was injured Monday morning when he was struck by the locomotive of a train that carries equipment and employees through a tunnel being bored to carry trea...
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Congress to address captive-shipper concerns
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Congress to address captive-shipper concerns WASHINGTON -- Washington sources said March 30 that railroads and shippers are expected to reach agreement on so-called "re-reg" legislation within about two weeks following intense and highly confidential negotiations involvin...
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FRA cracks down on harassment of injured rail workers
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FRA cracks down on harassment of injured rail workers CLEVELAND, March 30 BLET National President Ed Rodzwicz today hailed action by the Federal Railroad Administration to crack down on the harassment and intimidation of injured rail workers. In todays Federal Register, the FRA published a work...
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Ghosts of Duffy's Cut
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Remains Of Irish Workers Uncovered Near Main Line Reporting Walt HunterEAST WHITELAND TWP., Pa. (CBS 3) A mass burial site uncovered on the Main Line has brought a 177 year old mystery to a close. The bodies recovered, at least two so far, are believed to be among 57 Irish rail workers. Since 2004, sear...
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Pan Am Railways guilty of criminal charges
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Pan Am Railways guilty of criminal chargesWOBURN, Mass. -- A jury in Massachusetts has convicted a New Hampshire railway company and three of its subsidiaries of failing to report a hazardous waste spill at a rail yard in Ayer, reports WCVB televsion. Pan Am Railways Inc. of Nashua, N.H, was charged...
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White Flag Railway
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French 'very interested' in running U.S. railwayPARIS -- France's state-owned railway SNCF would be "very interested" in operating a high-speed railway network in the United States, French newspaper Les Echos reported on Thursday (March 19). In France's experience, high-speed ra...
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STB: Rail profits soared in 2008
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STB: Rail profits soared in 2008If you had money invested in the stock market in 2008, you lost a bundle. If you had money invested in a savings account in 2008, the return was below 5 percent. Corporate bankruptcies were numerous, and corporations reporting significant losses were even more nume...
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I want my ashes spread over Oak Island
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Engineer's ashes spread on rail lineAPEX, N.C. - Bill Brooks loved the New Hope Valley Railway, and now he will always be a part of it, the Apex Herald reports. As the most senior locomotive engineer on the line, Bill operated most of the trains and helped to instruct new engineers in the art of train han...
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