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Amtrak contract to operate Metrolink trains begins in June
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Amtrak contract to operate Metrolink trains begins in June (The following story by Brian Watt appeared on the Southern California Public Radio website on March 27, 2010.) LOS ANGELES Amtrak will operate Metrolink trains starting in late June. The national passenger rail company and the Southlan...
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UTU member awarded $33M for accident
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UTU member awarded $33M for accidentA Rock Island County, Iowa, jury awarded a former Iowa Interstate Railroad train conductor $33 million in damages Thursday (March 25) for an accident in April 2007 that resulted in the amputation of both of his legs, the Quad City Times reports. Andrew Schulte su...
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Alaska Railroad interim CEO
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Alaska Railroad interim CEOANCHORAGE, Alaska -- The Alaska Railroad's interim chief executive will be Bill O'Leary, reports the Anchorage Daily News. O'Leary is the railroad's chief financial officer. He will replace current president and chief executive Pat Gamble, who is leaving the railro...
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N.D. train derailment victim identified
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N.D. train derailment victim identifiedWASHBURN, N.D. The man killed in a train derailment south of Washburn has been identified as a Mandan resident, the Grand Forks Herald reports. Dakota, Missouri Valley & Western Railroad vice president Jeff Wood said employees are having a hard time de...
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FRA simulator may predict crew behaviorFRA researchers will be using an advanced train simulator to help identify safety problems and effective solutions. The new $1.6 million Cab Technology Integration Laboratory (CTIL) the train simulator -- will be housed at DOTs Volpe National Transport...
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Freight traffic news from "Railway Age"
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CN reaffirms strong profit forecast Canadian National said earlier this year that it was expecting double-digit in earnings-per-share growth in 2010, and Chief Financial Officer Luc Jobin told a National Bank Financial conference Wednesday that "so far the numbers are supporting that vi...
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Carloads up the past week!
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U.S. carload gains continue for fourth straight week For the fourth consecutive week, the latest week ended March20, freight traffic on U.S. railroads was up compared with the same period a year ago according to the Association of American Railroads. U.S. railroads originated 287,639 carloads d...
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Amtrak: Time to retire the '77 El Caminos
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Amtrak: Time to retire the '77 El CaminosAmtrak, the U.S. long-distance passenger railroad, asked Congress for $446 million to begin replacing locomotives and passenger cars as President Barack Obama increases transportation spending on rail, reports Bloomberg news. Amtrak President Josep...
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Just like the real thing!
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And the perfect audience ta test it out? Foamers! Yep! Uke would like a ride tu, but he'd be disappointed... Riding alone? No thanks! Let the foamers go in twos, and threes...and don't forget the Yoo-Hoo! FRA debuts high-tech locomotive simulator The Federal Railroad Administration's new Cab Tech...
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Amtrak creates high-speed department
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Amtrak creates high-speed department(Amtrak President Joe Boardman issued the following message to Amtrak employees this week.) "Dear Co-workers: "To support our corporate growth strategy and our goal of remaining the premier operator of high-speed passenger service in the Unit...
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Disability-claims inquiry concluding for LIRR
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Disability-claims inquiry concluding for LIRR (The following story by David M. Halbfinger appeared on the New York Times website on March 23, 2010.) NEW YORK The Long Island Rail Road will hire an independent examiner to review its safeguards against abuse of the railroads disability pension sys...
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High-speed rail stimulus questioned
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High-speed rail stimulus questionedTAMPA, Fla. -- The drive from Orlando to Tampa takes only 90 minutes or so. Despite the short distance, the Obama administration awarded Florida $1.25 billion in stimulus money to link the cities with a fast train to help kick off its efforts to bring high-speed r...
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Wash state proposes 5 rail projects
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Wash state proposes 5 rail projectsOLYMPIA, Wash. -- Washington state's Transportation Department says it could learn this week whether the federal government has given the go-ahead for five passenger rail projects worth more than $311 million, the Associated Press reports. Transportation S...
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Options bleak to shore up N.J. transportation fund
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Options bleak to shore up N.J. transportation fund (The following story by Paul Nussbaum appeared on the Philadelphia Inquirer website on March 22, 2010.) PHILADELPHIA As New Jersey looks for ways to pay for highways and transit after the state's Transportation Trust Fund runs dry, it can expect t...
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AAR: Rails register more carload gains
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AAR: Rails register more carload gainsU.S. railroads continued to post traffic gains in 2010's 10th week, which ended March 13, Progressive Railroading reported. The railroads originated 287,837 carloads, up 3.2 percent, and 203,626 intermodal loads, up 15.1 percent compared with totals fro...
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Railroads said poised for a rebound
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Railroads said poised for a reboundPITTSBURGH - A year ago, the symbol of the state of the rail freight industry was the lines of empty cars parked along tracks across the country including at the Conway Yards because they had nothing to haul, the Beaver County Times reports. Those cars are starting t...
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Chicago Metra PTC to cost $100 million
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Chicago Metra PTC to cost $100 millionCHICAGO - Metra plans to spend $100 million to install a high-tech system that would keep trains from colliding or prevent a distracted engineer from speeding through a warning signal to slow down or stop, the Tribune reports. Such a safety system would have ove...
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Chlorine shippers question PTC rule
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Chlorine shippers question PTC ruleThe Chlorine Institute (CI) fears that the positive train control (PTC) rule, which the FRA published Jan. 14, "drastically underestimates the rules benefits," and it has asked the FRA to re-issue the rule with a corrected cost-benefit analysis, r...
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Alaska Railroad president leaving post
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Alaska Railroad president leaving postAlaska Railroad President Pat Gamble is leaving this summer to become president of Alaskas state university system, reports the Fairbanks Daily News. Gamble has been president and CEO of Alaska Railroad since 2001, and under his tenure the railroad has exp...
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Commuter trains moving again in San Diego
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Commuter trains moving again in San DiegoCommuter trains are moving again in San Diego after crews repaired track damaged by a freight train derailment, the Associated Press reports. North County Transit District says about a half-dozen empty boxcars derailed at around 10 p.m. Monday and severa...
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MBTA suspends commuter rail service
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MBTA suspends commuter rail serviceNEWTON, Mass State transportation workers yesterday scrambled to empty the swimming pool-sized hole that opened beneath MBTA tracks during the weekend rainstorm and will force thousands of commuters to rely on buses for another week or so, the Boston Globe re...
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Puppy frozen to railroad tracks rescued by railroad inspector January 12, 11:15 PMMobile Animal Welfare and Protection ExaminerSandra Nathan Lois McLean's husband, Gary, an inspector for the CSX Railroad, started his day inspecting the railroad tracks in Bessemer, Alabama on a frigid morning...
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