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SEPTA, alleging greed, sues Goldman Sachs
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SEPTA, alleging greed, sues Goldman SachsPHILADELPHIA - SEPTA, upset with the performance of its pension fund's investment in Goldman Sachs Group Inc., has sued the financial firm, accusing it of greed, the Inquirer reports. Goldman Sachs is paying its executives too much and its stockholders t...
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Ex-Amtrak cop sues RR over shooting at take-out
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Ex-Amtrak cop sues RR over shooting at take-outBy STEPHANIE FARR Philadelphia Daily Newsfarrs@phillynews.com 215-854-4225An Amtrak police officer has sued the national rail corporation, claiming it's liable for an incident in which a woman was able to grab his gun and shoot him in the foot. Jam...
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UnitedHealth Group's profit rises 30%
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UnitedHealth Group's profit rises 30%NEW YORK -- Managed care company UnitedHealth Group said Thursday its fourth-quarter profit jumped 30 percent on higher premium revenue, despite a continued decline in commercial enrollment, the Associated Press reported. The Minnetonka, Minn., insure...
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NTSB questions Metrolink signal color
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NTSB questions Metrolink signal colorLOS ANGELES - As federal authorities prepare to close out a 16-month investigation of the deadly Chatsworth Metrolink disaster, a key issue remains in dispute: What color was the fateful final signal? the Los Angeles Times asks. The only eyewitnesses to come...
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Montana Rail Link cuts jobs
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Montana Rail Link cuts jobsMontana Rail Link will get rid of 46 jobs across Montana, the KECI Web site reports. The company cited the closures of Smurfit-Stone container's pulp mill and the loss of lumber mills in Bonner and Pablo as reasons for the cuts. The Missoula-based company's employs about 1...
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FRA sets 2010 drug, alcohol test rates
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FRA sets 2010 drug, alcohol test ratesWASHINGTON FRA-mandated minimum drug and alcohol random test rates will remain at their lowest levels in 2010, said the agency Jan. 13 after reporting that positive tests for substance abuse among rail workers is barely a blip on the random-testing radar scre...
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NTSB to release probable cause of Metrolink crash
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NTSB to release probable cause of Metrolink crashLOS ANGELES The National Transportation Safety Board is close to releasing its findings on the probable cause of a Southern California commuter train crash that killed 25 people in 2008, the Associated Press reports. The NTSB said Thursday it will...
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Freight Traffic Report AAR: 2009 carload traffic lowest since 1988 The Association of American Railroads Wednesday said 2009 total carload traffic on U.S. railroads notched the lowest levels since at least 1988, when the AAR's data series began. AAR's January Rail Time Indicators report notes 2...
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Dispatcher: "CN RTC tu Mxx, over" Mxxx: "Mxxx, go ahead, over." Disp: "I am showing a delay before you departed --------, what can I show as your reason?" Mxxx: "We initially had to daily the power, and then it took quite a while before we were able to get ahold o...
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Final PTC rule requires 2 cab screens
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Final PTC rule requires 2 cab screensWASHINGTON -- A final rule on how positive train control technology (PTC) is to be implemented by the nation's railroads was issued Jan. 12 by the FRA. The Rail Safety Improvement Act of 2008 mandated that freight, intercity passenger and commuter rail routes h...
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Fallen Brother
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Accident kills CN Rail brakemanOAKVILLE, Ont. A 42-year-old Hamilton railway worker crushed between two boxcars at the Ford Plant late Monday died early today (Jan. 12), the Hamilton Spectator reports. The man, whose name has not been released, died just after 12 a.m. in Hamilton General Hospita...
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STB shifts vice chair in rotation
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STB shifts vice chair in rotationThe three-member Surface Transportation Board now has Francis P. Mulvey serving as its vice chairman, under an annual rotation. He replaces Charles D. Nottingham in that role, the Journal of Commerce reported. The STB is the economic regulator of railroads, and j...
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Railroader sues over loud noises
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Railroader sues over loud noisesA Norfolk Southern Railway Company locomotive engineer claims he suffered hearing loss because of the loud noises to which he became exposed throughout his career, the St. Clair, Wis., Record reports. Ronald Drudge filed a lawsuit Dec. 17 in Madison County Circui...
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Workplace safety: Our highest priority
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Workplace safety: Our highest priorityBy UTU International President Mike Futhey What should have been a joyous holiday season ended all too tragically Dec. 29 with the death of 44-year-old UTU Local 1000 member Samuel Lundy in a switching accident in Minneapolis. He leaves behind a loving wife...
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Conrail order to pay $52.4 million in death of employee
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Consolidated Rail Corp. Ordered to Pay $52.4 MillionPosted by Staff Writer Wednesday, March 20, 2002 12:00 AM EST Category: In The Workplace Tags: Workplace Injuries, Railroad Workers and The Federal Employers Liability Act (FELA) A New Jersey jury recently awarded $52.4 million to the family o...
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UTUer sues under FELA for mosquito bite
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UTUer sues under FELA for mosquito biteOMAHA, Neb. - A Wyoming womans lawsuit accusing Union Pacific Railroad of not doing enough to protect her against mosquito bites isnt as bizarre or frivolous as it might appear, the World-Herald reports. Vivika A. Deviney said she suffered permanent injurie...
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FRA praised for its forward thinking
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FRA praised for its forward thinking (The following column, by transportation journalist Don Phillips, was published by Trains magazine.) I want you to consider four statements made in the Federal Railroad Administration's preliminary National Rail Plan. You may be surprised. Let me say at t...
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Whistle signal query. Redux.
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Lookin' through my 1967 copy of the "Consolidated Code..." ta find out what the hell three short blasts mean. Yeah, yeah I know the rules have been updated since then...like 30 years ago. But most signals are well established, and operations in yards have remained virtually unchanged si...
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Rail Safety Alert #5: No mental vacations
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Rail Safety Alert #5: No mental vacationsThe 24 days between Dec. 22 and Jan. 14 have proven the most deadly for railroad workers. More fatalities and career-ending injuries occur during this calendar period than any other. With the holiday season upon us, we owe it to ourselves and our families t...
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Another fatality, T.O not impressed..... what was the lead unit #?
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Author: trainnut51 just read were a 28 year old man and his girlfriend were killed trying to beat a train in taylor michigan. the crossing is at goddard just west of pelham. the has a 9 year old boy who now has to live without his father because of stupidity. just five months ago five were killed while raci...
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Analyst questions 'green' benefits of rail
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Analyst questions 'green' benefits of railSimply shifting freight from truck to rail won't result in a greener transportation system, transportation analyst Noël Perry said, arguing sustainability efforts should focus on entire supply chains, the Journal of Commerce reports. In the final se...
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Class I T&ES employment down 15%
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Class I T&ES employment down 15%Train and engine service employment on the nations major, or Class I, railroads in November fell to its lowest point over the past 12 months, according to Surface Transportation Board data. The number of Class I train and engine service employees fell 15 percen...
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Conductor awarded $500k for toxic fumes
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Conductor awarded $500k for toxic fumesNEWARK, N.J. - Thomas Comes, a New Jersey Transit employee who works as a conductor, has been awarded $500,000 in his lawsuit against NJ Transit Operations Inc., according to www.lawyersandsettlements.com. (Comes is a member of Local 60, Newark, N.J.) Com...
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Local 1138 Chairperson Pena dies
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Local 1138 Chairperson Pena dies Alfredo Pena, local chairperson of UTU Local 1138 at Miami, Fla., died in a motorcycling accident on Dec. 11, CSX GO-851 General Chairperson John Hancock reported.Pena, 42, was employed by the Florida East Coast Railway for 18 years. He was qualified as a conductor...
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Greenbrier, GE settle railcar dispute
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Greenbrier, GE settle railcar disputeThe Greenbrier Companies has agreed to cut nearly in half the number of railcars it will manufacture for its largest customer, General Electric Railcar Services Corp., the Oregonian reports. Instead of building 11,900 tank and hopper cars for GE, Lake Osweg...
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