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Batory confirmed as FRA administrator

  2/14/2018 Rail News: Railroading People Ron Batory speaking at RailTrends in 2016. Photo – Progressive Railroading The U.S. Senate last night approved President Trump’s nomination of Ronald Batory as the administrator of the Federal Railroad...

In the Line of Duty: Michael Kempf

BLET NEWS FLASH   INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, February 7 — BLET member Michael Kempf, a member of BLET Division 35 in Jacksonville, Fla., was killed when his Amtrak train collided with a CSX train tied down in a siding near Columbia, S.C., on February 4, 2018. Brother...

Heitkamp introduces two-person crew bill in U.S. Senate

  INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, February 1 — On January 30, 2018, Senator Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) introduced S. 2360, a bill that would mandate a minimum crew size for freight trains in the United States. The bill was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce,...

BLET Statement on Not-Guilty Verdict in Lac-Megantic Trial

BLET NEWS FLASH http://www.ble-t.org/pr/news/newsflash.asp?id=6060 (The following is a statement from Dennis R. Pierce, National President of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) and President of the Teamsters Rail Conference.) INDEPENDENCE,...