Links to News Articles of Interest


ABC News - Report on Terror Trains 11/6/2006

Senator Durbin and Colleagues say CN must honor agreement with Amtrak 10/27/2006

Watch Out, You Might Be a Supervisor 10/8/2006

Ohama World Herald - UP workers sue railroad - claim job stress contributed to illness.  4/1/2005

Bush, in reversal, clears $1.3B in aid to Amtrak [Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen] 12/1/2005

The Amtrak Funding Scandal 3/17/2005

Arbor Update: Michigan's Amtrak routes: ridership up 14%, funding down 100% 3/17/2005

Ill. officials watching Amtrak's fate [Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen] 2/14/2005

Train whistle waivers scrutinized [Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen] 11/20/2004

Boston.com / News / Local / Officials review whistle bans 11/20/2004

NPR : Report Downplays Threat of Iraqi Nuclear Weapons 10/7/2004

East St. Louis hazmat spill the latest in rash of remote control wrecks [Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen] 9/23/2004

Pine Bluff remote control accident reinforces BLET’s safety concerns. BLET News Flash.

Selling the Rust Belt Short