Archives for November 2021

Washington Monthly, Aug 9, 2021 

The Biden administration will need to do more than just invest more public money in train travel. It will also need to reverse decades of deregulation, lax antitrust enforcement, and other policy blunders that have left modern-day robber barons in control of nearly all the nation’s highly monopolized railroad infrastructure, just as they were in the worst days of the Gilded Age. Only this time, the financiers aren’t presiding over an expanding rail system; they’re selling it off and permanently liquidating its assets for short-term economic gain.

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International Railway Journal, November 30, 2021

Canadian Pacific is designing and building the locomotive using fuel cells and batteries to power the electric traction motors. CP chief engineer Mr Kyle Mulligan said: “We are going to deploy that prototype into one of our terminals in Calgary.” 

The diesel fuel tanks on the modified unit have been replaced by the extraction battery system and the cooling system and radiator fans have been replaced by the hydrogen storage. The fuel cells are located where the diesel engine and alternator were. “We are building this in a way that is modular so that we can retrofit existing platforms,” Mulligan said.

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Northern Nevada Business Weekly, November 16, 2021

Los Angeles-based Industrial Realty Group, LLC, recently announced it completed installation of an additional mile of rail track and improvements to the existing infrastructure at the 224-acre Western Nevada Rail Park site in Fernley.With the new extension of 5,000 feet, the site now includes over 7,000 linear feet of track… “IRG’s investment expands the existing rail operations on site providing additional staging, storage and transloading areas. We’re preparing for immense growth,” Justin Lichter, Vice President with IRG, said in a statement. “Our team has been in discussions with multiple tenants eager to join the site as we continue to expand our Western Nevada Transload business venture.”

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Labor Network for Sustainability

To protect against catastrophic global warming, the United States is preparing to rapidly reduce the burning of fossil fuels—coal, oil, and natural gas. As we transition to a climate safe economy, many people ask, “What about the workers who will lose their jobs in fossil fuels and other polluting industries?” Here’s how those workers can be protected.

Read or Listen to the audio version at labor4sustainability.org

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