DEERFIELD, Mass. – An East Deerfield Rail Yard employee was taken to Baystate Medical Center in Springfield by LifeFlight helicopter Tuesday after suffering a severe leg injury while working along the railroad tracks. After the accident, Baystate reported the employee, Robert [...]
Tomorrow, January 31st, people across North America will be taking part in an Inter-Continental Day of Action against Fast Track and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The TPP is another NAFTA, except this time on “steroids.” It could become the law of the lan [...]
The stage is set for an LIRR strike come spring if the MTA does not accept the recommendations of a Presidential Emergency Board (PEB), recently impaneled by President Obama to look at wages and benefits at the railroad. That was the message of SMART General Chairman Anthony [...]
Beer freezes at around 13 degrees Fahrenheit, and it’s Bill Diamond’s job to make sure that doesn’t happen. Not on his watch, at least. Mr. Diamond, 56, is a train conductor for Union Pacific Railroad Co. at the Proviso Yard in west suburban Northlake. He [...]
The “ICB/TABB Journal” is now available. Formerly known as “TABB Talk,” the new publication offers a more functional layout, enhanced design and improved content. “Our goal is to make this the leading industry publication in its category, a usef [...]
With the Crenshaw/LAX light-rail line groundbreaking last week, Los Angeles now has three rail transit projects under construction — an example of how the city is leading the country in a rail renaissance. The “city that destroyed cities,” as GQ recently described [...]
Lawmakers are calling for a comprehensive review of the nation’s rules that govern freight rail shipments of crude oil cargo following a string of rail accidents in recent months, and after receiving a warning from safety regulators that inaction could lead to a “major [...]
The Long Island Railroad will start keeping track of employees’ hours by having them sign in and out of work with their fingerprints. An audit by the city comptroller found that neither Metro-North nor the LIRR had a good system in place for regulating worker overtime o [...]
In 2013 the total number of workers in unions rose by 162,000 compared with 2012, led by an increase of 281,000 workers in private-sector unions. There were strong gains in construction and manufacturing, against a background of strike actions by low-wage workers in the priva [...]
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) Jan. 24 announced new regulations governing rail inspections that will help identify rail flaws and further eliminate the risk of derailments. The new regulations require performance ba [...]
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