The Union Pacific Railroad sued the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen in federal court, seeking to compel arbitration on a dispute over whether the railroad may require union workers to complete Covid-19 prevention training.
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The British government took over the railways on Monday in a bid to ensure services keep running for key workers during the coronavirus pandemic.
Read moreUnion Pacific Railroad and Chicago union workers sued each other on Friday over the implementation of a new attendance policy and the prospect of a strike.
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A 62-mile light-rail expansion project can move forward after a ruling from Washington’s Supreme Court upheld a voter-approved increase in vehicle registration taxes.
Read moreDogged by cost overruns and contract management issues, California High Speed Rail raised the estimate of its total cost by $1.3 billion on Wednesday as it released its draft business plan for 2020.
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Nationwide strikes against French President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to overhaul France’s pension system will enter the New Year and become France’s longest-running rail strike in the country’s history.
Read moreBNSF Railway, Norfolk Southern Railway, CST Transportation and Union Pacific Railroad have been sued 29 times this week, around the country, in antitrust complaints accusing them of fixing prices on freight charges.
Read moreMotiva Enterprises claims BNSF Railway, CSX Transportation, Norfolk Southern Railway, and Union Pacific Railroad “made billions of dollars by fixing prices for fuel surcharges from July 2003 to Dec. 31, 2008,” in federal court.
Read moreFreight train organizations want a federal judge to prevent Illinois from enforcing a law that sets a minimum of two people per crew because they say it violates federal law and there is no evidence the new rule would improve safety.
Read moreThough the 416 Fire has sparked three lawsuits against it, the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad maintains its coal-powered train did not spark the 54,000 acre wildfire across southwestern Colorado last summer.
Read moreThe BNSF Railway sued the cities of Edmond and Davis, Okla., and the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, claiming the state’s “Blocked Crossing Statute,” limiting the time a railroad can block a road crossing, is pre-empted by federal law.
Read moreGenesee & Wyoming shareholders claim in a federal class action that directors are selling the short-line railroad company too cheaply through an unfair process to Brookfield Infrastructure, for $112 per share or $6.5 billion.
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The French government will implement an “ecotax” on plane tickets for flights departing from France from next year.
Read moreDutch national railway company NS says it will pay reparations to Jews, Roma and Sinti whom it transported to camps in the Netherlands during World War II — from where they were sent to Nazi concentration camps.
Read moreThe Trump administration said Thursday it was withdrawing a proposal for freight trains to have at least two crew members, nullifying a safety measure drafted under President Barack Obama in response to explosions of crude oil trains in the United States and Canada.
Read moreA deadly 2017 Amtrak derailment in Washington state was caused by a dangerous curved track and the railway’s failure to use technology designed to automatically brake ahead of such curves, according to a final report adopted Tuesday by the National Transportation Safety Board.
Read moreTaking aim at the German railway Deutsche Bahn on Thursday, an EU magistrate said customers should not have to be German residents to buy tickets online via direct debit.
Read moreThe Court of Federal Claims refused to dismiss a challenge by landowners to a rail-to-trail conversion.
Read moreFrank Lloyd Wright began calling his idealized vision of an American community “Usonia” in the 1930s and the Usonian homes he built then were affordable and simple, and showcased the influential architect’s utopian vision.
Read moreSANTA CRUZ, Calif. — A state judge ruled against an environmental group’s objections to repairs to a rail line, paving
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