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Green Bay Chapter Meeting
Ocyober 15, 2014 |
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The
following minutes to be read at our next meeting at the National Railroad
Museum on Wednesday
November 19, 2014. President
Truman Koehn of
the C&NW Veterans Association read
the minutes of the previous meeting which was our 21st Annual Luncheon
meeting held at the Stadium View on Friday September 19, 2014. 8
members were in attendance. No
activities to report from NARVE at this time. Old
Business: None. New
Business: Discussion on the following
items: RRB
Financial Report shows that as of September 30, 2013 has
assets of 26.7 billion dollars and should not have cash flow problems
for the next 25 years barring sudden, unanticipated, large decrease in
Railroad employment or substantial investment losses. CSX
Railroad rejected an offer to merge with CP Railroad If merged the combined company would have
18 billion in annual revenue and 35,000 miles of track, the most among Class
1 railroads. United
Taconite and Minerals now needs access to the land on which Minnesota U.S.
Highway 53 now runs. The 1960
agreement required the highway to moved within 3
years of receiving the lease termination, but extended it to 7 years which
will be up in 2017
The location for the removal of Highway 53 is between Eveleth
and Virginia, MN. We are not sure if
this will impact the DWP/CN or the DMIR, or how far the detour route will be. Rod
Ewert advised that the CN is currently running
approximately 32 trains daily on the Adams Subdivn.
and are importing train crew from other Railroads to
handle the addition traffic. Herb
Hessil advised that Amtrak is complaining about
freight trains delaying their passenger trains due to heavy volume of freight
trains. We
also talked about the disgruntled Rail Link 22 year old employee that stole 2
BNSF locomotive and went on a 13 mile joyride before crashing into an UP train
and hit it at about 10 mph, then backed up and hit it a second time before a
Rail Link employee hit the fuel cut off switch. The man was employed at the
North Antelope Rochelle Mine in Wyoming and ran through several switches at
the mine before going on the main line which will cost about $60,000 to
repair the switches alone. He will face up to 20 years in prison and up to
$250,000 in fines. Report
on sick members: Nothing new to
report. Report
on deceased members: Rosemary Mogan, wife of Milwaukee Rd conductor and retired UTU General
Chairman John Mogan (non member)
passed away, however no date or age is available. Rosanne
Mohr, wife of Robert D. Mohr (member), former CTD on C&NW passed away on
October 10, 2014 at the age of 89. Our
next meeting (after November 19, 2014 will be at the National Railroad Museum
on Wednesday December 17, 2014. Lauren
W. Bockin,
S/T C&NW Veterans Assoc. |
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Posted: 12/29/2013 |
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