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		<title>Green Gone from Canadian Pacific</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 14:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry Butler</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Fred Green, formerly president and chief executive officer of Canadian Pacific Railway, has left the company, effective immediately, CP announced today.
Green has also resigned as a director and will not stand for re-election at the Company&#8217;s shareholder meeting later this morning. Five other directors - John Cleghorn, Tim Faithfull, Edmond Harris, Michael Phelps and Roger [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BNSF Announces Capital Program Plans for Missouri, Kansas</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 13:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry Butler</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) expects to invest an estimated $130 million on maintenance and rail capacity improvement projects in Missouri and an estimated $242 million on such projects in Kansas this year.
BNSF&#8217;s plans in Missouri include 1,507 miles of track surfacing and undercutting work, the replacement of 103 miles of rail and about 122,000 ties, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Schneider, BNSF Extend Intermodal Partnership</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 13:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Journal of Commerce</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Schneider National and BNSF Railway have extended their intermodal partnership by signing a multiyear contract, giving customers of the latter &#8220;truck-like&#8221; reliability as over-the-road capacity tightens.
BNSF has been the primary Western rail provider for Schneider since 2008. Through the agreement, Schneider customers have two service level choices and daily service in all major lanes. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Railmark Launches New Heating, Lubricant Product Lines</title>
		<link>http://www.railresource.com/content/?p=1955</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 15:03:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry Butler</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Railmark Holdings Inc. has launched two new product lines: RAILheat™ and Ultralube®.
The company said that its RAILheat products include heating panels for crossing gate mechanism boxes, heating panels for locomotives and other equipment, heating wraps for pipes and water tanks in passenger cars and locomotives, heating for locomotive seats, and passenger car electric heating systems. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amtrak Reorganizes Operations Management</title>
		<link>http://www.railresource.com/content/?p=1953</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 19:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry Butler</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Amtrak has announced it is moving forward with reshaping its Operations management structure by creating four business lines: Northeast Corridor Services, Long-Distance Services, State Supported Services and Commuter Services.
DJ Stadtler, the passenger railroad&#8217;s new vice president of operations, said that when the reorganization is complete, there will be fewer layers of management from top to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>L.B. Foster To Sell Shipping Systems Unit Acquired with Portec</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 14:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry Butler</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[L.B. Foster Co. (NASDAQ: FSTR) plans to sell its railway securement business, which it obtained as part of its acquisition of Portec Rail Products, Inc.
The rail supplier said the business unit, which manufactures chain, cable and strap tie down systems for vehicle and load securement in rail freight applications, has 35 employees and facilities in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bombardier To Supply Seven TRAXX Locomotives for Scandinavian Freight Service</title>
		<link>http://www.railresource.com/content/?p=1950</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 19:57:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry Butler</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Bombardier Transportation has obtained an order for seven Bombardier TRAXX F140 AC locomotives, with delivery expected in the fourth quarter of this year.
Under the contract, which is valued at approximately 24 million euros (US$31 million US), Bombardier will supply the locomotives to Bure Equity AB, which has purchased them to lease to train operator RushRail [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rail Traffic Continues Mixed for Major U.S. Lines, AAR Reports</title>
		<link>http://www.railresource.com/content/?p=1949</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 18:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry Butler</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Rail traffic continued to be mixed on reporting U.S. railroads in the week ending May 5, 2012, the Association of American Railroads (AAR) said, as they originated 276,136 carloads, down 2% compared with the same week last year. Intermodal volume for the week totaled 239,031 trailers and containers, up 3% compared with the same week [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LaHood Announces Changes to PTC Regulations</title>
		<link>http://www.railresource.com/content/?p=1948</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 14:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry Butler</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[positive train control]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood on May 10 announced changes to regulations governing the installation of positive train control (PTC) equipment.
The Rail Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (RSIA) mandates installation of PTC systems by December 2015 on rail lines that carry at least five million gross tons of freight annually, on Class I railroads that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>STB Proposes New Demurrage Rule</title>
		<link>http://www.railresource.com/content/?p=1947</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 13:29:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry Butler</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[demurrage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Responding to a conflict among federal circuit courts in recent decisions, the Surface Transportation Board has proposed a rule intended to clarify responsibility for demurrage charges.
In its notice of proposed rulemaking, the STB observed that the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, in Norfolk S. Ry. v. Groves (Groves), 586 F.3d 1273, 1278 (11th Cir. 2009), [...]]]></description>
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