Articles Tagged: Railroads

Federal agency agrees to allow companies to rely more on technology to spot problems.

Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird is rolling out new victim assistance tools and has joined a multi-state push to scrutinize a major rail merger. Plus, Iowa lands $82 million for cleaner transit vehicles, and state economic officials approve new business aid and community projects.

Roughly 99 percent of both railroads’ shareholders voted to support the largest rail merger in history Friday, but the U.S. Surface Transportation Board still must approve it.

The two U.S. railroads are continuing to make the case for their proposed $85 billion merger.

Chattanooga has transformed itself from the “dirtiest city in America” to the country’s first and only National Park City.

By earlier this year, it looked like the end was in sight with hopes to see the first quiet zone formally established this fall. Now, completion of the first phase has been pushed to next year.

The nation's largest railroad union has joined the list of entities endorsing Union Pacific's proposed $85 billion acquisition of Norfolk Southern to create the nation’s first transcontinental railroad.

CSX and the other major freight railroads seem focused on finding ways to cooperate more to improve service without merging.

In the past 6 months, railcars with hazardous materials passed the homes of at least 2.5 million people living within a mile of the tracks.

Also in The Gazette’s Capitol Notebook, Canadian National Railway announces $38 million investment in Iowa

The state’s five-year plan for transportation infrastructure features billions of dollars in planned investments in Iowa road, bridge, aviation and railway infrastructure, construction and repair projects.

Two residents of a southeast Cedar Rapids neighborhood implored the city council this week to do something about the noise from a nearby rail yard.

Hundreds of people from across Iowa and perhaps beyond gathered in the Benton County city of Belle Plaine on Thursday to see the world’s largest operating steam locomotive in action.

The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference filed its strike notice against Canadian National shortly after it announced that it plans to challenge a government order that forced it into arbitration with both CN and Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd. railroads to end a lockout, said union spokesperson Marc-André Gauthier.

Union Pacific’s Big Boy due in Belle Plaine and Cedar Rapids after Labor Day.