BLET News

(Source: Trains, March 18, 2019)  WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Railroad Administration has denied Kansas City Southern’s request to shift a brake test from the International Railway Bridge in Laredo, Texas, to one of its yards in neighboring Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. Full story: Trains Tuesday, March 19, 2019

(Source: Market Realist, March 18, 2019)  NEW YORK — The weakness in Union Pacific’s rail traffic continued for the sixth straight week. The company recorded an 8.2% year-over-year decline in its rail traffic in week 10 to 155,845 railcars from 169,846 railcars carried in the same week the previous year. Full story: Market Realist Tuesday, March…

(Source: Lincoln Journal Star, March 18, 2019)  LINCOLN, Neb. — Historic flooding is causing huge headaches for both freight and passenger railroads in Nebraska and surrounding states. Full story: Lincoln Journal Star Tuesday, March 19, 2019

INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, March 15 — BLET officers and staff invested a lot of legwork lobbying for rail worker safety during the early part of March 2019. The BLET lobbying effort was led by National President Dennis R. Pierce and Vice President and National Legislative Representative John P. Tolman, with invaluable support for BLET Director of…

(Source: Toronto Star, March 11, 2019)  TORONTO — Now that so much oil is being shipped by rail from Alberta to points south and west, the sight of a crumpled freight train on the banks of the Kicking Horse River high in the Rocky Mountains has taken on a new twist. Full story: Toronto Star Tuesday,…