Amtrak #850 Left Out in the Cold.
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Amtrak #850 Left Out in the Cold.

Airline pilots are only permitted to be work for a specific number of hours. In most instances, a two-person crew can only be on duty for no more than ten hours in a 24-hour period.   It’s the same for a railroad engineer—in fact, for the entire operating crew, which includes the engineer, the assistant…

Are High-Speed Freight Trains in Our Future?
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Are High-Speed Freight Trains in Our Future?

Some interesting ideas were recently presented by Hunter Harrison, president and CEO of Canadian National Railway, who laid out his view of the future of freight rail in a speech to the Canada Maritime Conference. First of all, Harrison predicts that multiple mergers will create two mega railroads in place of today’s “Big Six”: Union…