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Train crew employment up 9.2% in 2010 Tuesday, February 01, 2011 U.S. Class I railroads called train crews back to work at a steady pace in 2010, with the result that transportation (train and engine) employment increased 9.21% to 62.027 during the year. Total employment rose at a slower pace, endin...

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...since KCS hasn't paid a red cent back to long time investors since 1999, and the reelection of Mike Haverty several times... Now that he's stepped aside, it seems ta me it would be fitting that we see a few cents back! After all the railroad continues rollin' in the green! Jan. 27, 2011, 8:00 a.m. EST K...

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UP cites record 4Q, full-year profit Thursday, January 20, 2011 Union Pacific Corp. said Thursday that its fourth-quarter profit increased 41% over the comparable period a year ago, due to an improving U.S. economy and an increasing in traffic volume. That helped the company notch its most profit...

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SEPTA Wrestles With Cold-Weather ProblemsJanuary 24, 2011 2:28 PMPrint Share (A SEPTA Regional Rail train operates on a cold morning. File photo)PHILADELPHIA (CBS) The extreme cold can plague public transit, and SEPTA tries both to prevent problems and jump on those that do occur.Jeffrey Knu...

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Both CN and CP face possible strike Friday, January 14, 2011 Both Canadian National and Canadian Pacific could face a strike by more than 6,000 members of the Canadian Auto Workers union, which represents workers within Canadas two Class I railroads. CAW says its members have indicated they suppor...

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U.S. freight traffic starts 2011 well Friday, January 14, 2011 U.S. freight carload traffic rose 20.1%, and U.S. intermodal gained 8.6%, in the first week of 2011, ending January 8, compared with 2010s first week, the Association of American Railroads reports. AAR noted several changes to the car...

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Arch Coal has agreed to invest in the expansion of a Columbia River export facility in Washington, which should help create good paying jobs right when we need 'em! Not ta mention that we might see more BIG power in for maintenance, and repairs...plus the car knockers may get in on some of the work! Arch...

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Republican T&I Committee members named WASHINGTON -- Republicans have finalized appointments to the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee, which will be chaired in the upcoming Congress by John Mica (R-Fla.). Members include Minnesota's Chip Cravaack, who defeated De...

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FRA urging states to improve crossing safety WASHINGTON -- With 220,000 public and private highway-rail grade-crossings in the United States, train and engine workers are no strangers to dare-devil drivers attempting to beat the train. Through the first nine months of 2010, there were more than...

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2010: A mighty fine year for railroads So how did the major railroads perform in 2010? The short answer is that one wouldn't know they were operating in the midst of a recession. Although calendar year profits have not yet been reported, railroad profits were up 33 percent for the 12 months ending in th...

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Transit, HSR on thin ice with new Congress (The following article, written by Ken Orski, editor and publisher of Innovation Briefs, is reproduced with permission of Mr. Orski.) WASHINGTON -- Congressional action on transportation this year, including the shape of the next surface transportati...

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Better appeals route urged for conductor cert WASHINGTON -- As the Jan. 1, 2012, effective date for conductor certification approaches, the UTU and Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen are urging the Federal Railroad Administration to revise certain portion of the proposed certif...

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...ta add to your 'retirement' portfolio. Although Union Pacific (UNP) remains expensive per share, at $97+, suspicions are that a split is on the way... Just this grunts opinion! UNION PACIFIC IS AMONG THE COMPANIES IN THE RAILROADS INDUSTRY WITH THE HIGHEST SALES PER SHARE (UNP, CSX, NSC, KSU, GW...

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Reply Quote More Edit PostDelete PostPrinter FriendlyBan IPReport Spam That's where the traffic base has grown, while every other class of freight has either declined, or remained static. AAR: Freight traffic up at year end, entire year Thursday, January 06, 2011 U.S. freight carload traffic fo...

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Railroad Day on Capitol Hill rescheduled Tuesday, December 28, 2010 The American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association (ASLRRA) Monday announced the rescheduling of the 2011 Railroad Day on Capitol Hill, an annual industry effort involving railroads, the supplier community, and other...

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UTU-represented shortline has new owner LONGVIEW, Wash. -- UTU-represented train and engine employees of Columbia & Cowlitz Railroad here have a new employer in Patriot Rail Corp. after Patriot completed purchase of the shortline from paper manufacturer and forest products supplier Weye...

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CN completes first major EJ&E connection Tuesday, December 21, 2010 Canadian National has completed construction of the first major rail connection resulting from its acquisition of the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway. CN said the C$5 million connection at Griffith, Ind., creates a dire...

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FTA announces $182.4 million in funds for seven major transit projects Tuesday, December 28, 2010 The Federal Transit Administration said that it is advancing a total of $182.4 million in New Starts funding for seven transit projects already under construction in New York, Dallas, Salt Lake City...

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KCS engineer, conductor shot in Louisiana DESOTO PARISH, La. -- A Kansas City Southern Railway engineer and a KCS conductor were wounded by a gunshot here Dec. 20 in a freak accident, reports the Shreveport Times. According to the Times, the engineer, identified as Paul Griffin, 44, was inside the...

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Former McCain operative nominated to STB WASHINGTON -- A former John McCain operative has been nominated by President Obama to fill a Republican seat on the Surface Transportation Board. The nomination requires Senate confirmation. It is not clear whether there is sufficient time for the lame-d...

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Duck. It's another track fastener Rails know them as Pandrol clips -- the bent three-quarter-inch steel clips that fasten rail to concrete ties along Amtrak's Northeast Corridor and some other locations. In North Kingstown, R.I., reports the Providence Journal, some of the clips -- each weighin...

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Train & engine worker jobs climb 10% Almost 10,000 train and engine workers returned to work on Class I railroads through the first 11 months of 2010, with T&E jobs up almost 10 percent compared with November 2009, says the Surface Transportation Board, which tracks the data. The STB says 61...

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UTU working to improve Rail Safety Act By James Stem UTU National Legislative Director The Rail Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (RSIA) was not all that rail labor wanted in a safety bill, but it was a good start, and contains much of what we have long sought, including an end to limbo time, advance notice...

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...they being the Class-Is, and their minions at STB/FRA, et al... Operating crews continue to return to work Friday, December 17, 2010 Consistent year-over-year traffic increases have led railroads to call operating employees back to work in increasing numbers. New Class I railroad employmen...

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AAR: Freight traffic maintaining overall gains Friday, December 17, 2010 U.S. carload freight traffic for the week ending December 11 continued the years overall trend above 2009 levels, the Association of American Railroads said Thursdayup 10.2%. U.S. intermodal traffic for the week was up 14...

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	Rail jobs increased in 2010. But where? (Preview) Train crew employment up 9.2% in 2010 Tuesday, February 01, 2011 U.S. Class I railroads called train crews back to work at a steady pace in 2010, with the result that transportation (train and engine) employment increased 9.21% to 62.027 during the year. Total employment rose at a slower pace, endin...	Uke	0	355	9:42 AM, 02/02/11 by Uke
	Maybe a dividend would be nice... (Preview) ...since KCS hasn't paid a red cent back to long time investors since 1999, and the reelection of Mike Haverty several times... Now that he's stepped aside, it seems ta me it would be fitting that we see a few cents back! After all the railroad continues rollin' in the green! Jan. 27, 2011, 8:00 a.m. EST K...	Uke	1	315	3:40 PM, 01/31/11 by BlackDog
	Meanwhile UP cooks along! (Preview) UP cites record 4Q, full-year profit Thursday, January 20, 2011 Union Pacific Corp. said Thursday that its fourth-quarter profit increased 41% over the comparable period a year ago, due to an improving U.S. economy and an increasing in traffic volume. That helped the company notch its most profit...	Uke	1	366	1:49 PM, 01/31/11 by Uke
	SEPTA Wrestles With Cold-Weather Problems (Preview) SEPTA Wrestles With Cold-Weather ProblemsJanuary 24, 2011 2:28 PMPrint Share (A SEPTA Regional Rail train operates on a cold morning. File photo)PHILADELPHIA (CBS) The extreme cold can plague public transit, and SEPTA tries both to prevent problems and jump on those that do occur.Jeffrey Knu...	Troll	1	787	1:44 PM, 01/31/11 by Uke
	Big Canadian outfits face strikes! (Preview) Both CN and CP face possible strike Friday, January 14, 2011 Both Canadian National and Canadian Pacific could face a strike by more than 6,000 members of the Canadian Auto Workers union, which represents workers within Canadas two Class I railroads. CAW says its members have indicated they suppor...	Uke	2	360	3:56 AM, 01/19/11 by The Krink
	January 2011 starts off well for railroads... (Preview) U.S. freight traffic starts 2011 well Friday, January 14, 2011 U.S. freight carload traffic rose 20.1%, and U.S. intermodal gained 8.6%, in the first week of 2011, ending January 8, compared with 2010s first week, the Association of American Railroads reports. AAR noted several changes to the car...	Uke	0	330	10:37 AM, 01/18/11 by Uke
	Shipping coal via Columbia River terminal...instead of through Canada (Preview) Arch Coal has agreed to invest in the expansion of a Columbia River export facility in Washington, which should help create good paying jobs right when we need 'em! Not ta mention that we might see more BIG power in for maintenance, and repairs...plus the car knockers may get in on some of the work! Arch...	Uke	0	341	1:13 PM, 01/13/11 by Uke
	Republican T&I Committee members named (Preview) Republican T&I Committee members named WASHINGTON -- Republicans have finalized appointments to the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee, which will be chaired in the upcoming Congress by John Mica (R-Fla.). Members include Minnesota's Chip Cravaack, who defeated De...	Troll	0	306	10:53 AM, 01/13/11 by Troll
	FRA urging states to improve crossing safety (Preview) FRA urging states to improve crossing safety WASHINGTON -- With 220,000 public and private highway-rail grade-crossings in the United States, train and engine workers are no strangers to dare-devil drivers attempting to beat the train. Through the first nine months of 2010, there were more than...	Troll	0	292	10:51 AM, 01/13/11 by Troll
	2010: A mighty fine year for railroads (Preview) 2010: A mighty fine year for railroads So how did the major railroads perform in 2010? The short answer is that one wouldn't know they were operating in the midst of a recession. Although calendar year profits have not yet been reported, railroad profits were up 33 percent for the 12 months ending in th...	Troll	0	266	10:48 AM, 01/13/11 by Troll
	Transit, HSR on thin ice with new Congress (Preview) Transit, HSR on thin ice with new Congress (The following article, written by Ken Orski, editor and publisher of Innovation Briefs, is reproduced with permission of Mr. Orski.) WASHINGTON -- Congressional action on transportation this year, including the shape of the next surface transportati...	Troll	0	264	10:47 AM, 01/13/11 by Troll
	Better appeals route urged for conductor cert (Preview) Better appeals route urged for conductor cert WASHINGTON -- As the Jan. 1, 2012, effective date for conductor certification approaches, the UTU and Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen are urging the Federal Railroad Administration to revise certain portion of the proposed certif...	Troll	0	269	10:43 AM, 01/13/11 by Troll
	They're a good bet... (Preview) ...ta add to your 'retirement' portfolio. Although Union Pacific (UNP) remains expensive per share, at $97+, suspicions are that a split is on the way... Just this grunts opinion! UNION PACIFIC IS AMONG THE COMPANIES IN THE RAILROADS INDUSTRY WITH THE HIGHEST SALES PER SHARE (UNP, CSX, NSC, KSU, GW...	Uke	1	338	1:51 PM, 01/11/11 by Uke
	Intermodal growth, driving railroads... (Preview) Reply Quote More Edit PostDelete PostPrinter FriendlyBan IPReport Spam That's where the traffic base has grown, while every other class of freight has either declined, or remained static. AAR: Freight traffic up at year end, entire year Thursday, January 06, 2011 U.S. freight carload traffic fo...	Uke	1	450	1:35 PM, 01/11/11 by Uke
	Scheduling changes for ASLRRA affects big conference (Preview) Railroad Day on Capitol Hill rescheduled Tuesday, December 28, 2010 The American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association (ASLRRA) Monday announced the rescheduling of the 2011 Railroad Day on Capitol Hill, an annual industry effort involving railroads, the supplier community, and other...	Uke	2	640	10:12 AM, 01/07/11 by Uke
	UTU-represented shortline has new owner (Preview) UTU-represented shortline has new owner LONGVIEW, Wash. -- UTU-represented train and engine employees of Columbia & Cowlitz Railroad here have a new employer in Patriot Rail Corp. after Patriot completed purchase of the shortline from paper manufacturer and forest products supplier Weye...	Troll	1	414	6:36 PM, 01/05/11 by Uke
	LINTCO moves a bit closer to the goal... (Preview) CN completes first major EJ&E connection Tuesday, December 21, 2010 Canadian National has completed construction of the first major rail connection resulting from its acquisition of the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway. CN said the C$5 million connection at Griffith, Ind., creates a dire...	Uke	5	424	6:34 PM, 01/05/11 by Uke
	Feds give away more money for light-rail, and transit (Preview) FTA announces $182.4 million in funds for seven major transit projects Tuesday, December 28, 2010 The Federal Transit Administration said that it is advancing a total of $182.4 million in New Starts funding for seven transit projects already under construction in New York, Dallas, Salt Lake City...	Uke	0	276	11:49 AM, 12/30/10 by Uke
	KCS engineer, conductor shot in Louisiana (Preview) KCS engineer, conductor shot in Louisiana DESOTO PARISH, La. -- A Kansas City Southern Railway engineer and a KCS conductor were wounded by a gunshot here Dec. 20 in a freak accident, reports the Shreveport Times. According to the Times, the engineer, identified as Paul Griffin, 44, was inside the...	Troll	5	522	1:03 AM, 12/30/10 by Uke
	Former McCain operative nominated to STB (Preview) Former McCain operative nominated to STB WASHINGTON -- A former John McCain operative has been nominated by President Obama to fill a Republican seat on the Surface Transportation Board. The nomination requires Senate confirmation. It is not clear whether there is sufficient time for the lame-d...	Troll	2	418	6:36 PM, 12/27/10 by Snippy
	Duck. It's another track fastener (Preview) Duck. It's another track fastener Rails know them as Pandrol clips -- the bent three-quarter-inch steel clips that fasten rail to concrete ties along Amtrak's Northeast Corridor and some other locations. In North Kingstown, R.I., reports the Providence Journal, some of the clips -- each weighin...	Troll	0	355	1:51 PM, 12/27/10 by Troll
	Train & engine worker jobs climb 10% (Preview) Train & engine worker jobs climb 10% Almost 10,000 train and engine workers returned to work on Class I railroads through the first 11 months of 2010, with T&E jobs up almost 10 percent compared with November 2009, says the Surface Transportation Board, which tracks the data. The STB says 61...	Troll	0	255	1:48 PM, 12/27/10 by Troll
	UTU working to improve Rail Safety Act (Preview) UTU working to improve Rail Safety Act By James Stem UTU National Legislative Director The Rail Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (RSIA) was not all that rail labor wanted in a safety bill, but it was a good start, and contains much of what we have long sought, including an end to limbo time, advance notice...	Troll	0	249	1:31 PM, 12/27/10 by Troll
	So they say... (Preview) ...they being the Class-Is, and their minions at STB/FRA, et al... Operating crews continue to return to work Friday, December 17, 2010 Consistent year-over-year traffic increases have led railroads to call operating employees back to work in increasing numbers. New Class I railroad employmen...	Uke	5	397	7:06 AM, 12/22/10 by Calvin
	Movin' right along...yes we are! (Preview) AAR: Freight traffic maintaining overall gains Friday, December 17, 2010 U.S. carload freight traffic for the week ending December 11 continued the years overall trend above 2009 levels, the Association of American Railroads said Thursdayup 10.2%. U.S. intermodal traffic for the week was up 14...	Uke	0	300	10:55 AM, 12/21/10 by Uke
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