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Freight slows...again!
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Freight traffic doldrums continue U.S. freight traffic for the week ended March 14 fell 15% from the comparable week a year ago, the Association of American Railroads reported, though traffic was up 1.5% from the previous week. U.S. intermodal volume dropped an even steeper 18.3%. Total volume wa...
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Idle railroad cars piling up in N.E. OhioCLEVELAND -- The recession has caused a deep slowdown in freight train traffic and now as many as one-third of all rail cars are sitting idle, www.wkyc.com reported. The situation in Northeast Ohio parallels that of the rest of the country say executives from...
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Letter to the Editor: Railroad man's take on monster trains
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Letter to the Editor: Railroad man's take on monster trains (The following Letter to the Editor by Jim Wilson appeared on the Chicago Tribune website on March 12, 2009.) Regarding the article by Richard Wronski "Monster-train fears rising" published March 11 (News), I would like to opi...
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Railroads could telegraph rebound
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Railroads could telegraph reboundCould it be that railroad shipments, considered a leading economic indicator, are sending a positive signal? Railroad CEOs, speaking Wednesday (March 11) at the JPMorgan transportation conference, said only that conditions are not getting worse. But Drew Ro...
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Genesee & Wyoming to cut jobs, resize fleet
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Genesee & Wyoming to cut jobs, resize fleetGenesee & Wyoming Inc. will furlough 50 more employees in the next 30 days, in addition to 95 furloughed so far, the railroad operator said during its investor conference call, Reuters reported. Genesee has also reduced about 10 percent of its loc...
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Train safety requires 2 sets of eyes and ears
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Train safety requires 2 sets of eyes and earsWASHINGTON - "The best closing pitchers in baseball blow saves, off-duty policemen receive speeding tickets, and human beings make mistakes," said UTU International President Mike Futhey, responding to National Transportation Safety...
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Train "jumps" the tracks again
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Amtrak train jumps tracks; no injuriesRUSSELL, Mass. -- An Amtrak train headed to Albany from Boston jumped off the tracks in the town of Russell Sunday afternoon, March 8, according to Channel 7 (NBC) News, Boston. There were 109 passengers and five crew members on board the train at the time of the a...
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UTU member sues police over breath test
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CHARLESTON, W. Va. - A railroad engineer forced to take a breath test for alcohol after a fatal train accident in Montgomery is suing Montgomery police and the Kanawha County Sheriff's Department in federal court, the Charleston Gazette reports. CSX train engineer Rick L. Chapman and the union tha...
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Head rolling at MetroLink
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Metrolink jettisons 2 managersLOS ANGELES -- Two top managers who supervised the train engineer suspected of causing last year's Chatsworth rail crash were ordered off the Metrolink system Thursday after disclosures of repeated and serious safety violations, according to The Los Angeles Time...
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This was posted on our website a few days ago. Has anyone else heard about this? YOUR CELL PHONE RECORDS Posted February 21, 2009--I was in Hutchinson yesterday attending one of our site meetings and had a conversation with an Engineer from La Junta that recently had been involved in a triple fatali...
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209 lose jobs as rail-car factory closes
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209 lose jobs as rail-car factory closesMIRA LOMA, Calif. - More than 200 employees who converted large railroad freight cars to smaller ones will be looking for work when their factory in Mira Loma suspends operations at the end of the week, the Press Enterprise reports. The 209 workers are employe...
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Empty Hopper Train burn more fuel than Loaded ones
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Injured train engineer awarded $930,401
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Injured train engineer awarded $930,401
BUFFALO, N.Y. - John Murphy, a former Hamburg-based locomotive engineer whose career ended after a fall six years ago, was awarded $930,401 by a Buffalo jury, court officials told the Buffalo News.
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Stretching exercises were not performed correctly
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Be aware, stay alive
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Be aware, stay aliveOne of the most pressing and perplexing questions in railroads is this: Why might a railroad worker step out in front of a moving train? There are no easy answers. That same railroader would never think of crossing a busy street without carefully looking both ways, but time and aga...
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Rail worker crushed by crane
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Rail worker crushed by craneYUMA, Ariz. - Tense moments at an Imperial County construction site when a crane toppled on top of worker. It happened at a Union Pacific Railline Project early Tuesday morning (Feb. 10), the KYMA Web site reports. It was a close call for a railroad worker after a crane came...
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Two brothers killed in seperate incidents
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Two UTU members killedTwo UTU members, Michael Wilcox and Saxton Haselwood, have been killed in separate incidents. Wilcox, a member of Local 113 in Winslow, Ariz., was killed Saturday night, Feb. 7, when hit by a train on BNSF trackage near Holbrook, Ariz. Wilcox was 43 and had a wife and three child...
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SEPTA conductor falls off train
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Philly-area rail employee hurt in fall from train (The Associated Press circulated the following on February 10, 2009.) TULLYTOWN, Pa. Police say a Philadelphia-area commuter rail employee was injured in a fall from a moving train, but used her flashlight to wave down another train and get help. T...
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The yellow duct tape didn't hold up very well....
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via e-mail Did you notice that the reflectorized yellow duct tape didn't seem to hold up too well........ Does Red Green work in the car shops?? This could have been a real disaster................... I have no idea who took these, but it is very recent. Could have been the first major derailment of th...
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Craig Lang Memorial Fund
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Fund for family of fallen UTU memberUTU Local 646 in Council Bluffs, Iowa, has created a memorial fund for the family of Craig Lang, a UTU member who was fatally injured on the job on Jan 28. Lang, a member of Local 367 at Omaha, Neb., was struck and killed by a train in Union Pacific's rail yard in Council B...
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Goggle Deer
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Google Van Hits Deer The Google Van for Google Street View hit a deer. Watch as the tragedy unfold. Poor deer. :( Heres the link to the Street View page. (update: Google removed the image) Click the images to enlarge.
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Holy Shit.......
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Man Wills Himself to Live After Body Nearly Severed by TrainTruman Duncan: 'You Try to Do Things Necessary to Stay Alive'By JESSICA HORNIG Jan. 23, 2009 Truman Duncan should be dead. Most people don't survive being run over by a train, but Duncan did. In June 2006, Duncan was working at his job in the ra...
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The railroads will be running into storage problems
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Global slowdown means 100,000 US freight cars idled (The following appeared at RailNews.co.uk on January 24, 2009.) LONDON Americas three largest railroads have put 107,000 freight wagons into storage 17 per cent of their combined fleets amid a deepening slump in freight traffic caused by the gl...
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