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Sean Duffy Picked as Next SECDOT

Former Republican Congressman, reality TV figure, ESPN color commentator, professional lumberjack athlete and Fox Business co-host Sean Duffy is the President-elect’s pick for United States Secretary of Transportation. Duffy, 53, served in

“We’re growing our Premium Transload Program for select transload providers along the CPKC de México network who have met our growth, efficiency, safety and quality metrics,” CPKC reported via social media on Nov. 16. (Screen Grab from CPKC video)

Class I Briefs: CPKC, UP, CSX

Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) expands its Premium Transload Program. Also, Union Pacific’s (UP) Mechanical Car Department achieves 1 million hours of safe work; and CSX honors the winners of its 6th Drive to Succeed campaign.

Caltrain is transferring its retired gallery cars (90) and diesel locomotives (19) to the municipality of Lima in Peru, where they will operate in as part of a new east-west commuter rail service. (Caltrain Photograph)

Transit Briefs: Caltrain, Amtrak, LACMTA

California’s Caltrain sends its retired trains to the municipality of Lima in Peru. Also, Amtrak welcomes back Keystone Service riders after restoring weekday trains between Lancaster and Harrisburg, Pa.; and Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LACMTA) celebrates the completion of a mixed-use housing development adjacent to the E Line’s Soto Station in Boyle Heights.

(Photograph Courtesy of NCCC)

NCCC Announces Three Tentative Union Deals

The National Carriers Conference Committee (NCCC) recently reached tentative national collective bargaining agreements with the Transportation Communications Union (TCU), Brotherhood of Railway Carmen (BRC), and International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail