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Amtrak makes PTC progress with BNSF

Rail News: Positive Train Control Activation on BNSF subdivisions is Amtrak’s first host-owned territory implemented with PTC. Amtrak, in coordination with BNSF Railway Co., will implement positive train control (PTC) over several BNSF-owned subdivisions this week,...

BLET members ratify CN-IC contract

  INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, June 7 – By a better than 2-to-1 margin, members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) ratified a new collective bargaining agreement with the Canadian National’s former Illinois Central property on May...

Division 665 LR Danny Friend

          Danny J. Friend March 18, 1956 – February 21, 2018 View/Sign Guest Book| Danny J. Friend, 61, of New Baden, IL, born Mar. 18, 1956 in St. Louis, MO, died Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018 at St. Mary’s Hospital, Centralia, IL. Danny was an engineer for...