Great Lakes crews spreading wings over N.D.

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. JAMESTOWN, N.D. — Great Lakes Airlines crews represented by the UTU will soon be flying in and out of Jamestown. The Department of Transportation selected Great Lakes Airlines to provide air service [...]

New appointment at FRA

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. The Federal Railroad Administration’s new associate administrator for administration is Michael Logue, a 29-year employee of the agency. Logue has served as a railroad safety inspector trainee and in vari [...]

FRA warns of coveralls safety hazard

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. The Federal Railroad Administration has called attention to an injury where a conductor, while lifting the operating lever on a freight car, was dragged four car lengths after the lever became tangled in [...]

Warren Buffett — a rail fan — sings in China

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Billionaire Warren Buffett, whose Berkshire Hathaway investment fund owns 100 percent of BNSF, recently appeared on television in China, singing “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad” while [...]

Ken Knorr, longtime local official, dies

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. UTU local and International officer Kenneth L. Knorr, 58, died Jan. 20. Knorr was a member of Local 1031, Savannah, Ga. He hired on with the Seaboard Coast Line, now part of CSX, in 1977. He served in a v [...]