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Record profits, but UP opposes PTC costs

January 21, 2011 On the same day (Jan. 20) Union Pacific reported record fourth quarter and record calendar year 2010 profits, UP Chairman Jim Young said he is headed to Washington to meet with President Obama’s economic advisers to oppose a congressional mandate that railroads implemen [...]

Tags earnings, National Transportation Safety Board, positive train control, profits, PTC, record profits, safety, Union Pacific, UP

Alert commuter rail crew saves life near Boston

December 13, 2010 STOUGHTON, Mass. — An alert and ever vigilant Massachusetts Bay Commuter Railroad crew — that recognized the difference between a bag of clothes between the tracks and a human being — saved a life in this Boston suburb last week. The MBCR crew, with engineer [...]

PTC: What it is, how it works

November 15, 2010 Los Angeles Metrolink — a 512-mile commuter rail system, which serves the Southern California counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernadino and Ventura — is moving to be the first railroad to install and implement a positive train control (PTC) system. [...]

Tags collision avoidance technology, positive train control, PTC, safety

Progressive approach to PTC in Los Angeles

October 6, 2010 LOS ANGELES — A former Federal Railroad Administration chief safety officer, Jim Schultz, who later became a highly respected safety officer at CSX, is advising Los Angeles Metrolink as it moves to lead the rail industry in installing and implementing a positive train c [...]

Tags LA, Los Angeles, Metrolink, positive train control, PTC

Controversy over PTC business benefits

May 15, 2010 Railroads are campaigning hard to get federal funding for all or part of the cost of developing and deploying a positive train control (PTC) system, writes Larry Kaufman in Rail Business newsletter. There are two elements to the PTC issue. Most aggravating, the railroads are [...]

Put PTC safety first, labor tells FRA

August 24, 2009 As the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) works toward having effective safety regulations in place for the operation of positive train control prior to its 2015 congressionally mandated implementation, the agency is reaching out for feedback to its early proposals. In fac [...]

Tags FRA, positive train control, PTC, safety

We are a union on the move

August 13, 2009 By UTU International President Mike Futhey We are a union on the move, growing stronger financially and adding new members through aggressive organizing. In addition to organizing 300 pilots and flight attendants at Great Lakes Airlines recently, we have authorization cards f [...]

Tags FRA, Great Lakes Airlines, Lynx Aviation, organizing, Rail Safety Improvement Act, RSIA

Tie stimulus funding to rail jobs

January 29, 2009 WASHINGTON — Any federal funds flowing to freight railroads as part of a stimulus package, or investment tax credit or loans should be accompanied by a requirement that the railroads not use the money for technology that eliminates jobs. That was the principal message J [...]

Tags employment, James Stem, jobs, positive train control, PTC, stimulus funding