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Member, family burned out in Mich. home fire
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Member, family burned out in Mich. home fireUTU Local 1183 (Port Huron, Mich.) Legislative Rep. Fred Beidler and his family lost their home and all of their possessions to a late-night fire on Friday, Dec. 11, Michigan State Legislative Director Jerry Gibson reports, and the Michigan State Legisl...
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Point No Point Bridge burns (again)
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The second time in 9 years the swing bridge over the Passaic River between Newark & Kearney burns. CSX will fair ok if trains are rerouted over the National Docks.....NS will suck ass because of where the National Docks branch ties into the Northern Branch near Croxton. http://www.flickr.co...
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Murdered UTUer remembered at vigil
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Murdered UTUer remembered at vigilTRACY, Calif. - About two dozen relatives and friends gathered Tuesday in spite of icy cold for a cathartic candlelight vigil in front of the Carlton Way home of the Clayton Cotton Riggins, the retired railroad worker whose body was found in his house Nov. 17, the Tr...
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Mpls.-to-Duluth rail price tag climbs
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Mpls.-to-Duluth rail price tag climbsMINNEAPOLIS - The cost of the proposed high-speed Northern Lights Express rail line from Minneapolis to Duluth has gone up -- way up -- to nearly $1 billion, according to state officials as reported in the Star Tribune. Even the more conservative estimate of $6...
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GE, Amtrak lobby for 54 new locomotive
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GE, Amtrak lobby for 54 new locomotiveERIE, Pa. -- GE Transportation in Erie and Amtrak are lobbying Congress to fund 54 locomotives that the government-subsidized rail company says it needs to replace outdated engines, the Associated Press reports. The government's $787 billion stimulus bill...
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NTSB plans probe of latest Metro crash
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NTSB plans probe of latest Metro crashWASHINGTON -- The National Transportation Safety Board announced Monday that it will launch a formal investigation of Sunday's Metro crash, in which a six-car train smashed into a parked six-car train at a Northern Virginia rail yard, injuring three workers...
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SunRail loses labor backing
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SunRail loses labor backingHopes for broad support -- including from organized labor -- for a proposal to allow central Florida commuter rail dwindled Friday as a major union said the bill being drafted doesn't protect railroad workers' rights, The Jacksonville Observer reported. Organized la...
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This don't smell right!
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FRA News FRA refuses to prohibit one-person train crews The Federal Railroad Administration has refused to issue an emergency order banning the use of one-person crews in conventional and remote control yard switching operations, but it pledged to monitor them "very closely." The Br...
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Railroader blames fall on uneven track
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Railroader blames fall on uneven trackA Doucette, Texas, man has filed suit against Union Pacific Railroad Co., alleging he was injured while walking on uneven footing near train tracks, the Southeast Texas Record reports. Gerald W. West claims he injured his left ankle on Dec. 28, 2007, because o...
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Truckers renew public assault on railroads
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Truckers renew public assault on railroadsThe trucking industry is back on the attack against railroads. The American Trucking Associations will be running a series of anti-railroad advertisements in print publications aimed at congressional lawmakers who are writing a new highway spendin...
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...but serious tu! Witnessed a curious signal aspect last eve... Flashing red, under a solid green! That was on the 'new' signal bridge north of Interbay shops. What was the deal wit' dat?
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Briz....Kenwood
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There got to be so much stuff in 30 min, i figured it mite get lost off the shout board before ya saw it, so i copied it all here. If I knew it was gonna be so much, I wouldv'e started here to begin with. Your problem is 99.9% likely a bad connection. Cold solder joint, connector, switch. Get magnifying glass o...
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Man burned working on Philly rail line
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Man burned working on Philly rail linePHILADELPHIA -- A rail worker has been seriously burned while doing maintenance on tracks for a high-speed train line in Philadelphia. Investigators say the PATCO worker accidentally hit the third rail, which carries the high voltage needed to power the comm...
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Class I rail employment still falling
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Class I rail employment still fallingThe U.S. lines of the seven Class I railroads trimmed another 408 jobs as of mid-October from a month earlier, taking their total employment level down to a new low, the Journal of Commerce reports. Reports the carriers submitted to the Surface Transportation B...
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UTUer's 'been workin' on the railroad'
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UTUer's 'been workin' on the railroad'CHEROKEE, Iowa - The Cherokee Depot was vacated by the railroad in 1982 and the Cherokee District was gradually phased out, according to Dan Whitney of the Cherokee Chronicle Times. Tom Jarratt, who grew up in Cherokee, is the only employee hired out of the Cher...
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Sorry Uke.....please come back
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UTU retiree found beaten to death
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UTU retiree found beaten to deathTRACY, Calif. - Police are following leads as they try to find out who beat to death a retired railroad worker found Tuesday afternoon in his Carlton Way home, the victims daughter told the Tracy Press. The slaying of Clayton Cotton Riggins, 72, seems all the more myst...
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Ex-UP conductor wins lawsuit appeal
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Ex-UP conductor wins lawsuit appealA former conductor with Union Pacific Railroad will get another day in court on her claim that she contracted West Nile virus while working and that the railroad didnt do enough to protect her from mosquitoes, which carry the disease, the Omaha World Herald repor...
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500 recalled to build new rail cars
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500 recalled to build new rail carsHAMILTON, Ont. - Nearly 500 National Steel Car workers will return in the new year after the firm landed an order to build 400 new boxcars, the Spectator reports. The contract with the Canadian National Railway will see Steel Car restart its lines in January, ending...
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A "study" was actually needed?
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Study: Worker injuries go hiddenMany company doctors face pressure to conceal workplace injuries - even if it means providing inadequate medical treatment, according to a new study by Congress' watchdog agency as reported in the Charlotte, N.C., Observer. The report by the U.S. Government Acco...
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NJT inaugurates close call project
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NJT inaugurates close call projectA confidential close call reporting system pilot project is up and running systemwide on New Jersey Transit, with the UTU, American Train Dispatchers Association and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen participating. This is the first pilo...
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Penn Coach Yard Implosion
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Transit will hang him from the yard arm
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Engineer blamed in NJT mishapWEST WINDSOR -- Confusion reigned supreme on an NJ Transit Northeast Corridor train that overshot its destination at Princeton Junction on Monday evening, dropping hundreds of baffled commuters in Hamilton instead, the Newark Star Ledger reports. "When it wa...
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NS, BNSF draw attention for 'green' efforts
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NS, BNSF draw attention for 'green' effortsNorfolk Southern Corp. recently landed on Inbound Logistics magazine's inaugural G25 list, which recognizes 25 companies' sustainability efforts, Progressive Railroading reported. The magazine honored NS for its "Green Machine," an o...
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Rail cars marked 'explosives' trigger concern
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Rail cars marked 'explosives' trigger concernINDIANAPOLIS -- A train that is sitting idle on a railroad track on Indianapolis' south side is causing concern for neighbors near the track about what's inside the rail cars, www.theindychannel.com reported. The train, about a mile long, is connect...
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