Category: News
Railroads report mixed 4Q, yearly earnings
CANADIAN NATIONAL Canadian National Railway reported its income in the fourth quarter of 2012 was $613.8 million, increasing three percent from $595.7 million in the fourth quarter of 2011. Revenue in the fourth quarter increased by seven percent year-over-year to $2.5 billio [...]Conductors, engineers deal with trauma
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — In the last three years in Duval County, four people have been killed walking on railroad tracks. That number may seem pretty small, but there are the unseen victims to consider in these cases as well: The men and women who have to witness a train k [...]Fund set for Michigan SLD Gibson’s injured daughter
Kelsey Gibson, 21, daughter of Michigan State Legislative Jerry Gibson and his wife Carmella, was seriously injured the morning of Jan. 29 in an automobile accident. Kelsey, a student at Grand Valley State University and recently engaged to be married, was driving a Ford Esc [...]Wash., Mo., Va. legislative updates
Transportation funding in Missouri has been a hot topic at the state capital this session, State Legislative Director Ken Menges reports. In its last session, the Missouri legislature appointed a committee to study the state’s transportation needs and UTU was invited and made [...]UP posts ‘most profitable year’ in history
(By M.J. Clark for Wyoming Business Report) Wyoming’s main rail line, Union Pacific, reported net income of $3.9 billion in 2012, which makes 2012 “Union Pacific’s most profitable year in our 150-year history,” Jack Koraleski, UP’s CEO said in a [...]
Negotiations with Amtrak continue
Contract talks on Amtrak are continuing, General Chairperson Dirk Sampson reports. “As these negotiations are ongoing and sensitive, I am not a liberty to release the details,” he said. “My main priority with Amtrak is getting this contract settled,” [...]Union membership slips after anti-labor attacks
The percentage of American workers in labor unions took an unusually large fall in 2012, dropping to 11.3 percent last year from 11.8 percent in 2011, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced. The total number of union members also took an unusually big drop, by 400,000, to 1 [...]