Rights date to agreement from UP-SP merger Published by trains.com WASHINGTON – BNSF Railway will gain trackage rights over a short stretch of Union Pacific’s Jefferson City Subdivision in Missouri to begin serving a power plant 45 miles west of St. Louis. The 11.5 miles of trackage rights will allow BNSF to deliver coal trains […]
By Aaron Gallant for aflcio.org Working people across the United States have stepped up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our regular Service + Solidarity Spotlight series, we’ll showcase one of those stories every day. Here’s today’s story. Members of Laborers (LIUNA) Local 773 delivered fresh produce […]
By Charles Bolinger, charles.bolinger@hearst.com for thetelegraph.com Road construction ramped up in June with the Illinois Department of Transportation’s announcement that Interstate 270 was reduced to one lane between Illinois 3 and the I-55, I-70 and I-270 interchange. The work during the first three weeks of June is the first phase of a much larger repaving […]
The St. Louis Regional Freightway yesterday announced a 2021 list of priority infrastructure projects aimed at addressing manufacturing and logistics industry needs in eastern Missouri and southwestern Illinois. The list contains 21 projects representing a total investment of $2.2 billion. Half of that amount covers projects under construction or funded and expected to get underway, with some projects starting […]
By CARL GREENIllinois Correspondent The St. Louis region’s representatives in Congress voted true to their parties’ positions Feb. 6 in the House’s passage of the PRO Act, a strengthening of Labor unions and their members. The Democrats voted for it, but every Republican representing this region voted against the measure to protect the rights of […]
Story by JEFF D. GORMAN for courthousenews.com (CN) – Union 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. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen asked the federal court in Northern Illinois for an injunction against a new […]
Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-Ill.) gave the railroad industry multiple benefits as chair of the Railroad Subcommittee before receiving the endorsement of CSX lobbyist Tom Livingston. Anti-choice Democrat Rep. Dan Lipinski (Ill.), one of the most conservative Democrats in Congress, has had a hard time winning support from members of his party for his primary against […]
Police across the state are partnering with rail and government officials to promote this year’s campaign.Monday, September 23, 2019 — It’s Illinois Rail Safety Week, and police across the state are partnering with rail and government officials to promote “Operation Clear Track.” This campaign is the single largest rail-safety law-enforcement initiative in North America. Monday, […]
Barge traffic screeches to a halt. The impacts of this year’s flooding on the U.S. Inland Waterway system on grain shipments both on and off land along multiple rivers have a long tail. Because many locks and dams have been closed or are operating on a limited basis, river market grain elevators are threatened by […]
In less than three weeks, or right around the time many of us will be topping off our tanks for an Independence Day road trip, the 19-cent statewide Motor Fuel Tax increase approved at the end of the spring session by the General Assembly will kick into gear.Of course, it isn’t unusual for us to […]