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- Lautenberg Pushes for Rail Safety Funding in U.S. Senate
- Bloomberg News RAIL OPERATORS ACROSS the United States have until 2015 to install equipment that helps trains brake in an emergency after the Senate approved new safety legislation late last week. The bill also would more than double funding for Amtrak, the U.S. passenger railroad, to $13.1 billion. Railways including...
- Research articles 2008-10-06
- 2008 Ad
- While it seems that the urgency to invest in and grow the nation's railways, freight and passenger, transcends politics, this election may prove more confusing and polarizing than most. Conventional wisdom and "traditional" partisan politics tells us Republicans are good for freight, bad for passenger; Democrats are the opposite....
- Research articles 2008-09-01
- Booming elsewhere, high-speed rail sees delays in US
- WASHINGTON AFP — In November the Eurostar bullet-train blew the doors off commuter rail travel, sprinting the 213 miles (343 kilometers) from London to Paris in two hours 15 minutes -- and leaving tortoise-slow US trains in the dust. Over a similar distance -- Washington to New York --...
- Research articles 2008-05-02
- NRC continues focus on safety, training; From lobbying in Washington to setting up training for employes in the field, NRC is working to help its member contractors get the job done safely
- RT&S asked NRC Chairman Manny Ramirez and President Chuck Baker about the past year and what they believe the future holds for the NRC. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] RT&S: Manny, you are in your first year as chairman of the NRC. How do you feel about the progress the organization...
- Research articles 2008-05-01
- California at a crossroads: with passenger numbers soaring and plans for a high-speed network rarely out of the headlines, California is spearheading the revival of intercity rail in the United States. Keith Barrow looks at how the state hopes to build on
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WITH a population of 36.5 million and comparatively short distances between many key economic centres, California seems the ideal candidate to spearhead the revival of intercity passenger rail in the United States. Passengers travelling within the Golden State account for around one fifth of all Amtrak journeys,...
- Research articles 2008-04-01
- Don't rule out a strike by Amtrak workers.(TRANSPORT)
- Don't rule out a strike by Amtrak workers as early as Feb. 1. Nine of Amtrak's 14 unions have been unable to reach an agreement with the passenger railroad after almost eight years of negotiations. Unions want pay hikes to be retroactive to 2000, but Amtrak says...
- Research articles 2007-11-16
- Senate passes Amtrak reauthorization.
- Last week the Senate voted 70-22 in support of S. 294, the Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 2007 PRIIA. The bill would reauthorize Amtrak and provide $11.4 billion for the rail system over the next six years. The Senate passed several amendments...
- Research articles 2007-11-05
- One industry, one agenda
- There was a single recurring theme at Railway Age's 14th Passenger Trains on Freight Railroads Conference last month: Passenger rail and freight rail interests share common goals, and each understands that the health and long-term growth of both are interdependent. Freight railroads are facing some tough challenges, and we...
- Research articles 2007-11-01
- SEPTA
- Union Switch & Signal has won a contract to oversee the Kay Interlocking Re-Signaling Project, which features a new five-track interlocking and interfaces with both the SEPTA West Interlocking to the east and, to the west, Amtrak's Zoo Interlocking on the Northeast Corridor. The new system will provide bi-directional operation...
- Research articles 2007-10-01
- Rail Runner: New Mexico Commuter Rail.
- By Bruce Higgins Service provides highway alternative through Rio Grande Valley, will reach Santa Fe in 2008 During the past two years, New Mexico has taken major steps toward establishing a commuter rail system linking Albuquerque and Santa...
- Research articles 2007-05-28
- How the state will spend $12.7 billion Editor's note: This is a
- The question I'm going to nibble at, after enduring six hours of legislative budget subcommittee meetings this week, is what's going on with the state transportation budget, besides all the shouting about $1.1 billion in public transit cuts. I'm also not talking about the $20 billion Proposition...
- Research articles 2007-04-02
- In Senate, a big boost for Amtrak
- In a sign that Amtrak's political fortunes have shifted, Senate Democrats yesterday proposed a huge boost in funding for it that goes well beyond what even the rail line had requested from Congress. The chairman of the Senate budget committee, Kent Conrad, a North Dakota Democrat, announced a budget...
- Research articles 2007-03-15
- Railroads continue big spending on m/w: with containers and coal leading huge increases in traffic, railroads are spending billions on the infrastructure to keep up with wear and to increase capacity
- Railroads spent well over $8 billion on infrastructure projects in 2006, and traffic demands necessitate spending many more billions of dollars in 2007. In our annual m/w spending forecast, we bring you the spending plans for the Class 1 railroads, for Amtrak on the passenger side and for two regional/shortline...
- Research articles 2007-01-01
- Railroad popularity on rise in California
- While cheaper gas and the open road beckoned in October, Californians flocked to the state's intercity railroads in numbers not seen since the birth of the freeway system. The Bay Area and Central Valley led the charge, with the Sacramento-Oakland-San Jose Capitol Corridor line increasing 9 percent...
- Research articles 2006-11-17
- Weather lends hand
- Firefighters aided by more favorable weather claimed progress Thursday against wildfires that have burned more than 850,000 acres in the Texas Panhandle. Its looking really good, said Mary Leathers, a fire spokeswoman for the Texas Forest Service. Everybody seems to have a better spring in their step. In contrast to...
- Research articles 2006-03-17
- Albany—New York upgrade plan
- CREATION of a unified traffic system for the 229km Albany Rensselaer-New York line will cut travel time by 20 minutes, an ambitious new report on the 258km Schenectady-New York corridor says. The New York State Senate report proposes to invest $US 22 million in short-term improvements to passenger rail....
- Research articles 2006-02-01
- U.S. Department of Transportation to tighten oversight of Amtrak based on GAO recommendations.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-8 November 2005-US DOT: U.S. Department of Transportation to tighten oversight of Amtrak based on GAO recommendationsC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:07112005 U.S. Secretary of Transportation Norman Y. Mineta today announced the Department of Transportation would implement recommendations to strengthen...
- Research articles 2005-11-08
- Return on railway investment is key: North American railways are gradually and cautiously embracing modern technology. The question is how to fund it
- CONTRARY to popular belief, North American freight railways--an old "bricks and mortar" industry in today's fast-developing, computer-dependent information age--have always been at the forefront of technological developments. They were among the first industries to computerise, back in the punch-card days. Sometimes they have been able to push the envelope. At...
- Research articles 2005-07-01
- The NRC salutes the Gunn-Laney Amtrak Reform Proposal
- Over the past decade, the NRC has had a strained relationship with Amtrak. We protested Amtrak's aggressive moves to directly bid on track and rolling stock construction and maintenance projects. We opposed a Congressional proposal that would have run $12 billion in federal bonding through Amtrak's coffers to rebuild rail...
- Research articles 2005-06-01
- The Bush Administration introduces the Passenger Rail Investment Reform Act in Congress, Transportation Secretary Mineta invites serious dialogue on Amtrak reform.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-15 April 2005-US DOT: The Bush Administration introduces the Passenger Rail Investment Reform Act in Congress, Transportation Secretary Mineta invites serious dialogue on Amtrak reformC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:14042005 Legislation that breathes new life into the nations inter-city passenger...
- Research articles 2005-04-15
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