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TTD urges exclusion of hair testing from bill

August 20, 2015 WASHINGTON — In a letter to the leadership of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD), together with member unions and coalition partners, is urging lawmakers to follow established protocol for developing federal dr [...]

Tags AFL-CIO, AFL-CIO Transportation Trades Department, Depart of Health and Human Services, DOT, Edward Wytkind, Hair Testing, TTD, Wytking

Man arrested for placing items on train tracks

August 20, 2015 HOMESTEAD, Pa. — A man was arrested Wednesday for allegedly placing items on railroad tracks in Homestead. According to the criminal complaint, an officer was crossing the railroad tracks when he noticed a struggle between two men. One of the men flagged the officer down and [...]

Tags debris, safety, Vandalism

School bus safest transportation for students

August 20, 2015 Over the next few weeks, nearly 50 million children will head back to school; more than 20 million of those students, including my daughter, will ride on a school bus. When I talk about how to safely transport children to and from school, and more specifically about school bu [...]

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Feds to study daily passenger rail service in Midwest

August 19, 2015 CINCINNATI — The Federal Railroad Administration will soon take a good, hard look at how Amtrak could better serve the Midwest with interstate passenger rail transit, and local leaders are saying it will take Cincinnati one step closer toward daily rail service to Chicago. In [...]

Tags FRA, midwest, passenger rail, study

Female engineer inducted into Railroad Hall of Fame

August 18, 2015 When Ramona Dockter was a senior in high school, her brother asked her what she wanted to be. She told him that she wanted to work on the railroad like her father, and she did. For several months, 18-year-old Dockter worked as a brakeman alongside engineers who helped her und [...]

Tags Franky Hoffman, John Risch, Railroad Hall of Fame, Ramona Dockter

UMAC Article On Soccer Moms: The New Face Of Addiction

August 17, 2015 A recent study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows new demographics of individuals abusing and becoming addicted to heroin in the United States: middle class females. The CDC study shows that more women who identified as “middle clas [...]

Feds allow Amtrak police access to emergency radio

August 14, 2015 The feds have agreed to let Amtrak police communicate with cops and firefighters with access to emergency responder radio networks, Sen. Chuck Schumer said. Schumer had denounced what he called a dangerous inability for Amtrak police, like the ones who patrol Penn Station, t [...]

Tags Amtrak, emergency radio access, feds

NJ Transit plans for Pope's U.S. visit

August 14, 2015 New Jersey Transit officials yesterday announced the agency’s plans for operation during the weekend of Sept. 26-27, when Pope Francis visits Philadelphia. The agency will change its regular service to accommodate the estimated 2 million people who are expected to trave [...]

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Powder river basin coal demand down

August 14, 2015 Nine years ago, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Company embarked on a campaign to improve its freight service in and out of the coal-rich Powder River Basin of Montana and Wyoming. Times were good, the coal industry was booming and BNSF was getting political pressure to [...]

Tags BNSF, coal, investments

U.S. railroads' carloads down 4.4 percent

August 13, 2015 U.S. freight railroad traffic continued its ongoing slump last week, with U.S. railroads reporting a total 562,884 carloads and intermodal units for the week ending Aug. 8, down 0.9 percent compared with the same week last year, according to the Association of American Railro [...]

Tags AAR, carloads down, U.S. railroads