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Medicare: Consider insurance when traveling abroad

August 26, 2014 When planning a foreign trip, it’s highly unlikely your first thought would be, “Will Medicare pay if I get injured or have a medical emergency before I get back home?” Many patients think their Medicare benefits will provide coverage, wherever they go. Unfortunately, this is [...]

Tags Medicare, Palmetto GBA, seniors

Grain piles up as trains move N.D. oil

August 26, 2014 FARGO, N.D. – The furious pace of energy exploration in North Dakota is creating a crisis for farmers whose grain shipments have been held up by a vast new movement of oil by rail, leading to millions of dollars in agricultural losses and slower production for breakfast cerea [...]

Tags crude oil, grain shipments, oil train

Railroad man’s dying wish means one last ride

August 25, 2014 Gordon Russ was a railroad man all his life — and beyond. Russ died last year at 94 in Tacoma General Hospital, where he was born in 1919. A train engineer at heart until the end, he left his four children with one last request. Read the complete story at The News Tribune.

Members invited to join Omaha Labor Day Parade

August 25, 2014 The SMART Transportation Division’s Nebraska State Legislative Board is once again organizing participation in Omaha’s annual Labor Day parade Monday, Sept. 1, and SMART members from Omaha and surrounding areas are invited to take part. The festivities begin Sunda [...]

Tags Bob Borgeson, Nebraska, Nigro, Omaha

Brotherhood Outdoors Salute to the American Worker Marathon

August 25, 2014 The Union Sportsmen’s Alliance and Sportsman Channel are combining efforts to honor the contributions of the American worker and celebrate today’s youth, who represent the future of our nation’s workforce and outdoor heritage. Sportsman Channel’s Brotherhood Outdoors Labor Da [...]

Land deals slowing California high-speed rail plan

August 25, 2014 The California High-Speed Rail Authority needs to buy more than 550 pieces of property to build its first 29-mile stretch of rail line between Avenue 17 in Madera to American Avenue south of Fresno. And along the next 100 miles between Fresno and Bakersfield, as many as 1,150 [...]

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Funeral set for member Hayes, killed in UP crash

August 22, 2014 A funeral service will be held at 12 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 23, at Turrentine-Jackson-Morrow Chapel in Allen, Texas, for SMART Transportation Division member Roderick A. Hayes, 31, who was killed in a Union Pacific train collision Aug. 17. Interment will follow at Ridgeview Mem [...]

Tags Roderick A. Hayes, Union Pacific

Engineer, railway company talk as Lac-Mégantic burns

August 22, 2014 The following conversations took place on July 5 and 6, 2013, on the night of the devastating derailment in Lac-Mégantic. They were between railway engineer Tom Harding and company offices in Farnham, Que., and Maine. The transcripts, which are based on audio recordings of MM [...]

Tags Lac-Megantic, MM&A, Montreal Maine & Atlantic Railway

Coroner reports railroad worker was shot

August 22, 2014 The Kern County’s coroner’s office released the official cause of death for Robert Limon, the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway worker who was found dead on Aug. 17. According to the coroner’s office, Limon died from multiple gunshot wounds and ruled the [...]

Tags BNSF Railway

MoDOT seeking applicants for rail safety inspectors

August 22, 2014 The Missouri Department of Transportation Aug. 19 posted job openings for two railroad safety inspectors for its railroad operations staff. The railroad safety inspectors will conduct routine grade crossing, track, hazardous materials, motive power and equipment, operating pr [...]

Tags MoDOT, Railroad Safety Inspectors