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Amtrak spending nearly $300 million for 130 new passenger rail cars
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Amtrak spending nearly $300 million for 130 new passenger rail cars (Amtrak issued the following on July 23, 2010.) WASHINGTON, D.C. Amtrak is implementing the first step in a long-term, comprehensive fleet renewal plan with the purchase of 130 new single-level rail cars to support its long-dist...
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Railroad shares up at the close of July 23 trading
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Railroad shares up at the close of July 23 trading (The Associated Press circulated the following on July 23, 2010.) NEW YORK Shares of some top railroads companies were up at the close of trading: CSX rose $.93 or 1.8 percent, to $52.65. Canadian National rose $1.35 or 2.2 percent, to $62.64. Canadia...
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Senate bill calls for national freight policy
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Senate bill calls for national freight policy (The following story by William B. Cassidy appeared on The Journal of Commerce website on July 22, 2010.) WASHINGTON, D.C. A national multimodal freight transportation plan is the goal of a bill introduced today in the U.S. Senate. Three Democratic se...
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$100 million available to unclog Chicago rails
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$100 million available to unclog Chicago railsA formal accord between the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Illinois DOT clears the way for that state to begin spending a $100 million federal grant on projects to help untangle congestion points in the nations key rail hub area of Chicago, r...
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Senate commits $200M for rail tunnel
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Senate commits $200M for rail tunnelAnother $200 million has been promised to help fund the construction of an $8.7 billion rail tunnel connecting New Jersey and Manhattan, Web site www.northjersey.com reports. The Senate Appropriations Committee Thursday (July 22) endorsed providing a tota...
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Freight traffic report
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Freight traffic gains; still trails 2008 levels Thursday, July 22, 2010 U.S. freight carload traffic for the week ended July 17,2010, was up 5.5% compared with its comparable week in 2009, but still trailed 2008 pre-recession levels by 13.8%, the Association of American Railroads reported Thurs...
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New Michigan law requires whistle posts
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New Michigan law requires whistle postsIt is now mandatory in Michigan for whistle posts to be erected and maintained by railroads at highway-rail grade-crossings throughout the state. The new law was enacted and signed by the governor following efforts of UTU Michigan State Legislative Direct...
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Maine attempts ta save line scheduled for abandonment.
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State makes offer for Maine rail line Wednesday, July 21, 2010 The state has offered $18 million to purchase the 233 miles of rail line that Montreal Maine & Atlantic Railway is seeking to abandon in Aroostook and Penobscot counties, the Maine Public broadcasting Network reports. Maine Depart...
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Top 10 states for rail crossing accidents
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Top 10 states for rail crossing accidentsNationwide, there were 2,772 highway-rail crossing accidents in 2007, 2,409 in 2008, and 1,896 in 2009 resulting in a total of 873 deaths, according to the Federal Railroad Administration. States facing an August 2011 deadline to adopt rail-crossing saf...
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Brandy new railroa... Short line. Really short!
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Coal company owner of new railway Monday, July 19, 2010 PBS Coals has invested in its own stretch of railroad, and this summer work on the project is complete, the Somerset, Pa., Daily American reports. The Friedens, Pa., company now has a 10-mile railway that will transport most of the coal to a Balti...
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UTU, Keolis reach agreement on VRE
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UTU, Keolis reach agreement on VRE When Keolis Rail Services took over operation of Virginia Railway Express (VRE) commuter trains from Amtrak, Monday, July 12, conductors and assistant conductors were protected under an agreement negotiated July 9 by the UTU International President's Office...
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Plans for contaminated rail cars gain steam
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Plans for contaminated rail cars gain steam (The following story by Annette Cary appeared on The News Tribune website on July 20, 2010.) TACOMA, Wash. The Department of Energy is considering what to do with 14 contaminated railcars and two contaminated locomotives parked near central Hanford sin...
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Railroad shares down at the close of July 19 trading
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Railroad shares down at the close of July 19 trading (The Associated Press circulated the following on July 19, 2010.) NEW YORK Shares of some top railroads companies were down at the close of trading: CSX fell $.33 or .7 percent, to $49.79. Canadian National fell $.03 or .1 percent, to $59.19. Canadi...
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Busted!
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Three Metro-North workers busted smoking marijuana, drinking Published: Monday, July 19, 2010 NEW YORK Three Metro-North employees face criminal charges after being caught smoking marijuana and drinking 20 minutes after their shifts started, the New York Daily News has reported. A maintenan...
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India. Again.
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Rails help JB Hunt earnings move up.
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Intermodal aids J.B. Hunt earnings increase Friday, July 16, 2010 Lowell, Ark.-based J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. late Thursday reported second-quarter net earnings of $52.1million, or diluted earnings per share of 40 cents, compared with $24.0million, or19 cents per diluted share, in...
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Family of dancer killed by train files lawsuit
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Family of dancer killed by train files lawsuit (The following story by Jon Hilkevitch appeared on the Chicago Tribune website on July 14, 2010.) CHICAGO The family of a Chicago dance instructor who was killed by a train at an inoperative rail crossing in University Park three months ago filed a lawsu...
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Owners pull 3,064 railcars out of storage
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Owners pull 3,064 railcars out of storageNorth American railcar leasing fleets, shippers and railroads pulled 3,064 cars out of storage during June but still had 23.7 percent of their freight hauling equipment sitting idle, the Journal of Commerce reported. That's the latest estimate from the A...
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NTSB to meet on fatal 2009 collision of two D.C. Metro trains
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NTSB to meet on fatal 2009 collision of two D.C. Metro trains (The National Transportation Safety Board issued the following on July 14, 2010.) WASHINGTON, D.C. The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a Board meeting on Tuesday, July 27, 2010, at 9:30 a.m. in its Board Room and Conferenc...
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KCS declares quarterly preferred dividend
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KCS declares quarterly preferred dividend (Kansas City Southern issued the following on July 14, 2010.) KANSAS CITY, Mo. The Executive Committee of Kansas City Southerns Board of Directors declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $12.8125 per share on the outstanding KCS 5.125% Cumulativ...
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Who are these guys?
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Looks like a Gennesee & Wyoming paint scheme... New gensets roll on the Buffalo & Pittsburgh Monday, July 12, 2010 In classic automobile parlance, its known as a resto mod: taking a battered, rusting hulk and restoring it to better-than-new condition while making major modifications tha...
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Heat wave drives coal to 18-mo. highs
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Heat wave drives coal to 18-mo. highsThe cost of coal will climb to $68 a short ton this year, according to the median forecast of 10 analysts, the highest level since Jan. 8, 2009, amid forecasts that snow would blanket the U.S. Northeast, Business Week reports. Coal traded at $63.30 on the New York Me...
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FRA implements new bridge safety rules
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FRA implements new bridge safety rulesWASHINGTON New bridge safety regulations, affecting some 100,000 rail bridges in the U.S., were made final by the Federal Railroad Administration July 14. All owners of railroad track must adopt and follow specific procedures to protect the safety of thei...
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Rail group says U.S. economic recovery may be stalling
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Rail group says U.S. economic recovery may be stalling (The following story by John D. Boyd appeared on The Journal of Commerce website on July 14, 2010.) WASHINGTON, D.C. The trade group for the largest carriers in the U.S. freight railroad industry pointed to two months of weakened rail traffic an...
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Thieves charged with stealing copper wires from above Amtrak tracks
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Thieves charged with stealing copper wires from above Amtrak tracks (The following story by John Henrehan appeared at MyFoxDC.com on July 14, 2010.) NEW CARROLLTON, Md. Two local men have been indicted for stealing copper wires from the towers that run above Amtrak's right-of-way in Prince Georg...
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