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Bend Over and touch your ankles
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Unions challenge DOT's "strip search" regulation http://www.ble.org/pr/news/newsflash.asp?id=4678 CLEVELAND, August 14 - The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, along with seven other rail unions and the BNSF Railway, has filed a lawsuit challenging a new Depar...
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Hazmat Training
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Hazmat training offered railroad workersThe Department of Energy (DOE) is sponsoring a radiological transportation training program for railroad workers. It will be held Sept. 8-10 at the National Labor College in Silver Spring, Md. The DOE has shipped large amounts and a variety of radioactiv...
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Looks like a good year for railroads...
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...and those of us working on/for a railroad, especially a Class-I. Check out this report from the Wall Street Journal. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Railroads, Packing Pricing Power, Deliver Big Profits Union Pacific's Jump In Earnings Is in Line With Robust Industry's By ALEX ROTH Jul...
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Rude awakening!
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Uke was blasted out of a very deep sleep at 0510 this morning by an empty grainer with draggin' wheels...at least three, four wheels... Surely the TM/YM at Balmer heard this through their stupor... But if they had, nary a sign of that train's stopping as it headed north. Job security for the car-knocke...
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Retaliation
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Retaliation at the rails (The following investigative report by George Knapp appeared on the Las Vegas Now website on July 23. A video of this report is available on the Las Vegas Now website. Previous reporting in this series is available here (Part 1) and here (Part 2). LAS VEGAS Former employees of...
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It was a good 2Q despite floods
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Railroads post solid 2Q profits despite floodsNEW YORK -- Despite rapidly accelerating fuel costs and Midwest floods putting a damper on profits, the nation's two largest railroad's second-quarter profits were boosted by demand for farm products, coal and improving operational efficiency. U...
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Share the risk in hazmat shipping
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RRs want risk-sharing for transporting hazmatWASHINGTON -- Calling the safety of the American public of paramount importance, the nation's freight railroads today urged the country's shippers of highly hazardous materials or toxic inhalation hazards (TIH) to become full partners with the ra...
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FELA lawsuit
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FELA lawsuit over noise exposureA 13-year veteran with Alton & Southern Railway has filed a Federal Employers' Liability Act (FELA) complaint, alleging he was exposed to noise pollution, the Madison County, Ill., Record reports. In papers filed in Madison County Circuit Court on July 16, Ke...
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FRA proposes rule to protect roadway workers
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FRA proposes rule to protect roadway workersThe Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) recently issued a notice of proposed rulemaking targeted at protecting roadway workers from train or equipment movements on an adjacent track. The proposed rule would require railroads, contractors and ro...
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