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Amtrak 'misled' Congress on finances
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Amtrak 'misled' Congress on finances (The following story by Jim McElhatton appeared on the Washington Times website on June 1, 2010.) WASHINGTON, D.C. When Amtrak assured Congress it was on a "glide path" to free itself of federal subsidies early last decade, a handful of top executiv...
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Ex-CSX exec now CEO of Florida East Coast
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Ex-CSX exec now CEO of Florida East Coast (The following story by Mark Basch appeared on the Florida Times-Union website on May 29, 2010.) JACKSONVILLE, Fla. The Florida East Coast Railway announced Friday that James Hertwig will become president and CEO of the company, effective July 1. Hertwig w...
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SEPTA sues BP over pension-fund losses
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SEPTA sues BP over pension-fund lossesSEPTA this week sued BP and its Gulf of Mexico drilling partners, bosses, and affiliates, in an attempt to recover losses on the BP stock in its pension fund since the oil giant's Deepwater Horizon rig blew up April 20, according to Joseph N. DiStefano of the Phil...
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Chlorine Institute: FRA understates PTC's benefits to rail industry, public
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Chlorine Institute: FRA understates PTC's benefits to rail industry, public (The following appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on May 26, 2010.) Yesterday, the Chlorine Institute Inc. (CI) submitted a final report to the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) on a cost-benefit st...
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U.S. railroads seek corporate welfare if coal hit by climate policy
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U.S. railroads seek corporate welfare if coal hit by climate policy (The following story by John D. Boyd appeared on The Journal of Commerce website on May 25, 2010.) WASHINGTON, D.C. In a bold bid to cover U.S. railroads against a potential hit to their lucrative coal hauling business from emerging...
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Cops find 600 lbs. of pot in tank car
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Cops find 600 lbs. of pot in tank carBLAIR, Neb. -- Washington County deputies made a huge drug bust Monday night (May 24), discovering 600 pounds of marijuana on a train near Blair, investigators told reporters from KETV. Employees at the Cargill plant called authorities after finding the drugs as...
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Wisconsin & Southern CEO returns $43,800 in illegal donations
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Wisconsin & Southern CEO returns $43,800 in illegal donations (The Associated Press circulated the following on May 20, 2010.) MADISON, Wis. The head of the Wisconsin and Southern Railroad Company is apologizing for using company money to reimburse employee's political donations to Repub...
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Boy, 11, found dead on SEPTA tracks
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Boy, 11, found dead on SEPTA tracksPHILADELPHIA -- An 11-year-old boy was found dead on the SEPTA tracks at the Wayne Junction car yard Sunday morning, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. SEPTA spokeswoman Jerri Williams said the boy's body was found about 8:30 a.m. by a SEPTA employee. The yard is...
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NTSB issues updates on three D.C. Metro accident investigations
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NTSB issues updates on three D.C. Metro accident investigations (The National Transportation Safety Board issued the following on May 20, 2010.) WASHINGTON, D.C. The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a Board meeting on July 27, 2010, to consider a final report on its investigation...
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New Amtrak service in Va. beats annual goal in six months
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New Amtrak service in Va. beats annual goal in six months (The following story by Ray Reed appeared on the Lynchburg News Advance website on May 20, 2010.) LYNCHBURG, Va. The new Northeast Regional passenger train serving Lynchburg has met the ridership goals for its first year and did it in only six m...
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Man's corpse found on train
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Man's corpse found on trainWASHINGTON - A man found dead on a Red Line train may have been there for more than three hours as the train sat in a rail yard at Shady Grove station, Metro officials told the Examiner. But Metro was refusing to identify the man whose body was found Monday afternoon. It also was...
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FRA proposes permanent cell-phone ban
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FRA proposes permanent cell-phone banThe Federal Railroad Administration is moving to make permanent an October 2008 emergency order restricting the use by on-duty train crews of cell phones and other electronic devices. A Notice of Proposed Rulemaking was published Tuesday, May 18, in the Fe...
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DOT announces proposed regulations to prevent railroad crew distractions while operating trains
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DOT announces proposed regulations to prevent railroad crew distractions while operating trains (The U.S. Department of Transportation issued the following on May 17, 2010.) WASHINGTON, D.C. U.S Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today continued his campaign to stop distracted driving by...
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Shortline news
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New operator selected for P&N Railroad Monday, May 17, 2010 A Boca Raton, Fla.-based short line and regional railroad company has been selected to restore freight service on the Piedmont & Northern Railway in Gaston County, the North Carolina Department of Transportation said, the Gast...
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Controversy over PTC business benefits
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Controversy over PTC business benefitsRailroads are campaigning hard to get federal funding for all or part of the cost of developing and deploying a positive train control (PTC) system, writes Larry Kaufman in Rail Business newsletter. There are two elements to the PTC issue. Most aggravating...
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Amtrak passengers stuck for hours after Colorado rock slide
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Amtrak passengers stuck for hours after Colorado rock slide (The following story by Howard Nathan appeared at CBS4Denver.com on May 16, 2010.) BOULDER COUNTY, Colo. A group of Amtrak passengers had to exercise patience over the weekend after a rock slide in southwestern Boulder County blocked th...
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Freight traffic trends upward across all lines!
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U.S. freight traffic continues to rebound Thursday, May 13, 2010 U.S. carload freight traffic rose 14.7% during the week ended May 8, 2010, compared with the comparable week in 2009, the Association of American Railroads reported Thursday, marking the 11th consecutive week of traffic increases...
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13 hurt as Amtrak train collies with tractor trailer in N.C.
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13 hurt as Amtrak train collies with tractor trailer in N.C. (The following story by Jesse James Deconto, Bruce Siceloff and Amy Dunn appeared on the News & Observer website on May 14, 2010.) MEBANE, N.C. A truck driver ignored signs warning of a humpbacked railroad crossing, and his lowboy trai...
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May 8....Everybody wears Engineers cap with red bandana and dark Thousand Miler
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Amtraks National Train Day arriving Saturday at over 100 stations around the country (Amtrak issued the following on May 4, 2010.) WASHINGTON, D.C. Join us on May 8, 2010, for the 3rd annual National Train Day. Events will take place in Washington, DC, Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles and across...
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PATH whistleblower vindicated
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PATH whistleblower vindicatedAn OSHA whistleblower investigation found that the Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH) Corp. violated an employee's rights when he was disciplined for exercising those rights under the Federal Railroad Safety Act, the Occupational Health and Safety magazine We...
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Quake damage limited to train delays, authorities say
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Quake damage limited to train delays, authorities say (The following appeared on the North County Times website on May 8, 2010.) ESCONDIDO, Calif. A 4.8 earthquake Saturday morning in Imperial County shook up Amtrak coastal train schedules in San Diego County, but no injuries or damages were repo...
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Train stopped safely by ‘dead-man feature’
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Train stopped safely by dead-man featureIn the spartan, phone-booth-size motormans cab in a subway train, there is a metal arm a few inches long called the controller, according to The New York Times. To set the train in motion, the operator presses down on the controller arm with several pounds of p...
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Amtrak to invest $1 billion in capital program
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Amtrak to invest $1 billion in capital program (The following appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on April 29, 2010.) Amtrak is launching a $1 billion construction program to fund capital projects designed to rebuild, upgrade and modernize its tracks, bridges, stations and other in...
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Woman Killed By Train In Delaware Co.
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Apr 29, 2010 11:20 am US/EasternWoman Killed By Train In Delaware Co.GLENOLDEN (CBS 3) A woman was struck and killed by an Amtrak train in Delaware County in the early morning hours of April 29. CBS1 of 1 Riders faced early morning delays on the rails Thursday morning after a woman was struck and killed...
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PTC will not provide 'substantial' business benefits to railroads, AAR says
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PTC will not provide 'substantial' business benefits to railroads, AAR says (The following appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on April 28, 2010.) Yesterday, the Association of American Railroads (AAR) announced it filed an expert analysis that dispels assertions there will be su...
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