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| PSC gets some oversight of railroads (KTBS Shreveport) |
| A new Louisiana law is giving the Public Service Commission some regulatory control over railroads when it comes to safety matters. Six safety inspectors will be hired by the PSC to look into complaints about rail and train accidents. The PSC will also have some oversight of closing railroad crossings. |
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| A moving tribute to song (The Beacon News) |
| After love, the biggest topic for popular songs has to be transportation. Songs about riding in cars, trains, boats and planes fill the airwaves, from Woody Guthrie to Johnny Cash to the Beach Boys. It could be especially true in the United States, a country that's always been about going somewhere else. |
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| Grain News (Grainnet.com) |
| Railroads have cleared most of the flood-related backlogs that slowed grain and ethanol traffic in the Midwest, but some traffic is still moving across diverted routes. |
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| Railroads tracking hazardous cargo (The Scranton Times-Tribune) |
| What might be rumbling through your backyard? Like most children, Bill and Mary Beth Booth’s kids love trains, reveling in the steel-on-steel excitement of the locomotives and cars that rumble through Glenburn Township within sight of their front door. |
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