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In the Line of Duty: Larry G. Thomas

http://www.ble-t.org/pr/news/newsflash.asp?id=5905 INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, November 9 — BLET member Larry G. Thomas, a member of Division 292 in Beach City, Ohio, was killed in a yard switching accident on November 6, 2016. He was 37 years old. An employee of the Wheeling...

2016 November General Elections Endorsements

To download the PDF of all endorsements click here. This information is also found below: [column size=”1/2″] U.S. Senate Tammy Duckworth – D U.S. Congress 1st Bobby Rush – D 2nd Robin Kelly – D 3rd Dan Lipinski – D 4th Luis...

Added Service on Amtrak For The Holidays

Amtrak Adding Trains for Midwest Thanksgiving Holiday Trav In anticipation of the busiest travel week of the year, America’s Railroad is prepared to accommodate the surge of holiday travelers with additional capacity on several routes in the Midwest. Extra...

Halliburton, U.S. Silica set frac sand unit-train record

  10/17/2016 Rail News: Shippers Halliburton Co. and U.S. Silica Holdings Inc. late last week announced they moved a record-breaking unit train of frac sand via BNSF Railway Co. from Ottawa, Ill., to Elmendorf, Texas. The train, which carried nearly 19,000 tons...

OIG: Amtrak hasn’t estimated full cost of PTC

The cost of installing PTC could be ‘hundreds of millions’ more than Amtrak’s projections, the OIG said. Although Amtrak has made significant progress in installing positive train control (PTC), the railroad hasn’t fully tallied up the total...

Metra seeks PTC grant for Milwaukee North, West lines

Rail News: Positive Train Control Metra has applied for a federal grant to help fund a $25.2 million program to install positive train control (PTC) on the commuter railroad’s Milwaukee North and West lines. The agency applied for the grant under the Fixing...