FRA
Year: 2010
Norfolk Southern
Canadian National
CN: Modal Shift Protocol to Help British Columbia Meet Emissions Targets
MONTREAL — CN has pioneered a modal shift protocol that will create new carbon offset project opportunities for British Columbia’s transportation sector, CN President and Chief Executive Officer Claude Mongeau announced. Pacific Carbon Trust (PCT), a Crown corporation and leading provider of offsets in British Columbia (B.C.), has agreed to recognize the protocol for modal shift offset projects in B.C. The modal shift protocol allows companies to generate carbon offsets by shifting freight shipments to rail from truck. An offset protocol is a detailed, specific set of instructions on how to carry out an offset project. A protocol may include
Canadian National
CN’s Canada-Based Rail Traffic Controllers Ratify New Collective Agreement
MONTREAL — CN and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference/Rail Canada Traffic Controllers (TCRC/RCTC) have ratified a new three-year labor agreement. The union represents approximately 200 Rail Traffic Controllers at CN across Canada. The contract, retroactive to Jan. 1, 2009, provides for wage increases of 1.8 per cent for 2009, 2.4 per cent for 2010 and 2.6 per cent for 2011, as well as dental plan benefit improvements that come into effect on June 1, 2010.
Union Pacific
Commuter Rail
Union Pacific
Union Pacific Railroad Invests More Than $20 Million for Track Improvements to Its Line from Near Manville to Near Lusk, Wyo.
OMAHA, Neb. — Union Pacific will improve Wyoming’s transportation infrastructure with a more than $20 million investment to improve the rail line that runs from near Manville to near Lusk, Wyo. Work on the nearly 26-mile stretch of railroad track began May 4 and is scheduled to be completed in mid June. The project includes removing and installing new rail and more than 67,000 concrete ties. Crews also will spread more than 86,000 tons of rock ballast reinforcing the roadbed. Union Pacific is using a modern track renewal train, the TRT 909, which installs rail and concrete ties in one