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Deputy FRA administrator to depart Nov. 1
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. WASHINGTON – Deputy Federal Railroad Administrator Karen Rae is departing the agency Nov. 3 to rejoin the New York State government as deputy secretary of transportation in the office of New York Democrat [...]Former Alternate NLD Gene Plourd dead at 79
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. LIMERICK, Maine – Former Alternate National Legislative Director Gene Plourd (1993-1997) died Oct. 15 at age 79. Plourd, 79, born in Providence, R.I., hired out on Maine Central Railroad in December 1954, [...]House bill would help restore transit service, jobs
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. WASHINGTON – A bi-partisan bill has been introduced in the House of Representatives to bring financial relief to distressed transit systems and to help stem cuts in transit jobs and service. Rep. Russ Car [...]Obama names PEB to investigate rail labor dispute
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. WASHINGTON — A five-member Presidential Emergency Board was appointed by President Obama Oct. 6 to investigate and make non-binding recommendations in a dispute between 11 rail labor unions and the [...]Rail revenue adequacy faces challenge; stocks down
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. WASHINGTON – Individuals choose bank savings accounts based on the interest rate offered, assuming the investment is secure because no depositor has ever lost their principal on a Federal Deposit Insuranc [...]
Rail safety concerns? Questions? FRA all ears
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. CHICAGO — Here is an opportunity to voice your rail safety concerns directly to the administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration. A 90-minute town hall meeting on rail safety will be held Tu [...]New RRB labor member; NMB nominees await Senate
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. WASHINGTON – A former secretary-treasurer of the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen – Walt Barrows – is the new labor member of the Railroad Retirement Board following his Senate confirmation Sept. 27. He [...]
Door reopened slightly on high-speed rail funding
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. WASHINGTON – Just when federal funding for high-speed rail appeared dead as a rusted rail spike, Senate Democratic Leader Dick Durbin of Illinois exercised his clout and reopened the door – if only slight [...]