Canada: CP Rail seeks ‘skin in the game’ from shippers to increase bitumen transport

By The Canadian Press, CBC News Calgary; January 26, 2018 Canadian Pacific Railway is asking crude-by-rail shippers to sign multi-year,…

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Quebec: The night the Swiss Cheese holes lined up

Opinion by Art Miller, Railway Age Magazine; January 26, 2018 After nearly three months of emotional courtroom proceedings and nine…

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Napa Valley Wine Train ponders reviving long-dormant Rutherford, California depot

By HOWARD YUNE, Napa Valley Register; January 26, 2018 One of the Napa Valley Wine Train’s future additions Upvalley could…

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Working on the railroad: Montana Rail Link workforce expands as train traffic rises

By KIM BRIGGEMAN, Missoulian; January 26, 2018 Montana Rail Link will hire 90 new track laborers and switchmen in what’s…

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Kansas Senate committee looks at passenger rail

By Chad Frey, Newton Kansan, The Ottawa Herald; January 26, 2018 Led by Sen. Carolyn McGinn (R-Sedgwick), the Kansas Senate…

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Iowa Pacific in New York State: Adirondack Park Agency urged to intervene to end rail-car storage

  By DENISE RAYMO and SUZANNE MOORE, Press-Republican; January 25, 2018 MINERVA — With tons of ice pushed onto the…

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Longest naval gun barrel rolling home by rail to battleship New Jersey museum in Camden, New Jersey

By Carol Comegno, Courier Post; January 26, 2018 CAMDEN – Mighty World War II naval gun barrels that once fired…

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The Daily CSX: Union Pacific Names Cindy Sanborn Regional Vice President

A press release from Union Pacific Railroad: Omaha, Neb., January 26, 2018 Union Pacific today named Cindy Sanborn regional vice…

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Montreal: Exporail train museum keeps track of winter

By Sarah Deshaies, Special to Montreal Gazette; January 26, 2018 Snow is both a pleasure and a chore, and two…

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New York: State lawmakers grill New York City transit agency chief during budget hearing

By The Associated Press, New York Daily News; January 25, 2018 ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Millions of dollars being spent…

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Ontario: Is the return of the Northlander passenger train a reality?

By Chris Dawson, BayToday.ca; January 24, 2018 Corina Moore hopes as Ontario Northland continues to build momentum that one day…

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Ontario: Seen as first step to multi-modal system with a future rail ‘spine’

From The North Bay Nugget; January 25, 2018 Two Ontario rail advocacy groups say the recent expansion of Ontario Northland…

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Ontario: Train groups continue lobby efforts for North

By Elaine Della-Mattia, Sault Star; January 22, 2018 City council has thrown their support behind efforts to renew passenger train…

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New England’s Downeaster Service: Amtrak could make stops along the Midcoast as early as this summer

By Chris Chase, Staff Writer, Coastal Journal; January 23, 2018 NEWCASTLE — A proposal by Amtrak to bring passenger train…

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New Jersey Transit’s Engines Parked as Train-Control Software Won’t Work

By Elise Young, Bloomberg; January 23, 2018 New Jersey Transit’s race to fulfill a federal mandate for emergency train-braking has…

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UK: After 145 years, sharing with stranger on Scotland-London sleeper train to be banned

By Alastair Dalton, The Scotsman; January 21, 2018 Sharing with a stranger on Scotland-London sleeper trains is to be banned…

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Ontario: Metrolinx launches ‘cheeky’ book on how to behave on public transit

From CBC News Toronto; January 24, 2018 GO Transit has produced a book on how to behave on its buses…

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A reporter’s story: I’ve covered NJ Transit for 20 years, here’s what I think Governor Murphy may find in his audit

By Larry Higgs, NJ.com; January 24, 2018 When I first started covering NJ Transit, the agency wasn’t considered a national…

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Union Pacific Begins Brazos Yard Construction in Texas, the Largest Facility Capital Investment in Company History

A press release from Union Pacific Railroad: Spring, Texas, January 25, 2018 Union Pacific Railroad began construction this month on…

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At least three dead after commuter train derails near Milan, Italy

By Emilio Parodi and Francesca Landini, Reuters; January 25, 2018 SEGGIANO DI PIOLTELLO, Italy (Reuters) – At least three people…

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Congestion issues delay but won’t derail CN, analysts say

By Jonathan Ratner, Calgary Herald; January 24, 2018 Investors appear to have largely shrugged off Canadian National Railway Co.’s weak…

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Wales: Dog escapes his home in the Valleys and catches a train to Cardiff

By Marcus Hughes, Reporter, Wales Online; January 22, 2018 A dog who escaped from his Valleys home and caught a…

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