| 2 UTU members die in separate accidents |
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| Two UTU members have died in separate on-duty rail accidents over the Labor Day period in Mobile, Ala., and near the southern New Jersey town of Paulsboro, a suburb of Philadelphia.
These two on-duty fatalities bring rail-employee on-duty fatalities for 2010 to 13, which is three more than the 10 reported on-duty fatalities for all of 2009; and bring UTU-member on-duty rail fatalities to eight for 2010, which is equal the 12-month total in 2009.
In Mobile, conductor Josh Roper, 2... |
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| Economic recession? Not for railroads |
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| Of course there is an economic recession, but railroads surely appear to have slogged -- even danced -- through the difficult times with a Teflon coating.
Be it actual counts of railroad freight loadings, the resiliency of railroad stock prices, the railroads' pricing power over captive shippers, or profit reports, railroads clearly are strutting in high economic cotton.
The chief rail analyst for the Wall Street firm of UBS told investors Aug. 26 that "U.S. railroads have stealt... |
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