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BNSF Railway BNSF trims management, realigns operations

  5/31/2016 BNSF Railway Co. eliminated 62 management jobs last week and realigned its operations organization from three regions to two as of June 1. Two major factors drove the changes: a reduction in coal traffic as well as “significant capital...

Memorial Day 2016

http://www.ble-t.org/pr/news/newsflash.asp?id=5847 By Dennis R. Pierce BLET National President INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, May 27 — Each year on Memorial Day, we pause to honor and pay tribute to the men and women who have given their lives serving in our military and to...

Blame the railroad industry and lobbyists, not the Amtrak engineer

Posted by Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH of Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University on May 19, 2016 (2) “NTSB to cite operator error in deadly Amtrak derailment.” The news story came on the eve of the National Transportation Safety Board’s...

Call To Action IL HB3755

Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers & Trainmen/ Illinois State Legislative Board   Legislative Action CALL TO ACTION: 99th Illinois General Assembly We write to let you know that HB3755 ( Sen. Sandoval), a bill to maintain two persons on a freight train might be...