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Railroads and Veterans

The nation’s freight railroads have more than a century-long commitment to the nation’s service men and women, and this year continue to hire veterans at a robust pace. Between 20-25 percent of current freight rail employees, and one in five of the more than 15,000 new employees freight railroads expect to hire in 2012, will have served in our nation’s military. [Learn More]


Freight Rail Traffic

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AAR Reports Mixed Weekly Rail Traffic

The Association of American Railroads (AAR) today reported mixed weekly rail traffic for the week ending May 12, 2012, with U.S. railroads originating 279,063 carloads, down 5.2 percent compared with the same week last year.

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Bringing America Back: Working on the Railroad


Railroads are putting out help-wanted signs across America, says ABC News, aiming to hire 15,000 new workers nationwide this year. Hundreds of people lined up at a recent job fair in Gary, Ind., to get a job with "one of the longtime engines of our economy," as this news report says. "These are jobs that are not going to be outsourced and shipped overseas. These are American jobs," said Association of American Railroads President and CEO Edward Hamberger.

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