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Dirty ’ol beauty: 1930 steam engine arrives for trips at Florida railroad museum
(The following story by Sara Kennedy appeared on the Bradenton Herald website on February 4, 2010.) BRADENTON, Fla. — John Gramling avoids white clothes when he’s working on the rare, 1930 steam engine called the Flagg Coal Co. No. 75. “It’s a dirty machine,” laughed...
New Lenox: CN ready to talk one-on-one
(The following story by Susan DeMar Lafferty appeared on the Herald News website on February 4, 2010.) NEW LENOX, Ill. — Mayor Tim Baldermann is "confident" that he soon will be talking to Canadian National Railway officials before the village's battle against the...
Rail lobby presents case to Kansas state senate
(The following story by Foss Farrar appeared on the Arkansas City Traveler website on February 3, 2010.) TOPEKA, Kan. — Passenger rail proponents today presented a compelling case for bringing Amtrak back into Kansas, a member of the state Senate transportation...
Central Oregon & Pacific trial to be heard in Roseburg
(The following story by John Sowell appeared on The News-Review website on February 4, 2010.) ROSEBURG, Ore. — Douglas County Circuit Judge Randy Garrison ruled Tuesday that Central Oregon & Pacific Railroad's civil suit against the state of Oregon will be heard in...
Norfolk Southern yet to lay track at proposed Memphis-area intermodal site
(The following story by Eric Smith appeared on The Daily News website on February 3, 2010.) MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Norfolk Southern Corp. hasn’t laid down any of the track that will connect its main line to the proposed $112 million intermodal terminal in Rossville, but the...
Railroad Retirement Board to mark 75th anniversary in 2010
(The U.S. Railroad Retirement Board issued the following on February 3, 2010.) CHICAGO — During 2010, the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) will observe the 75th anniversary of the enactment of the Railroad Retirement Act of 1935. Part of President Franklin...
No injuries as Pa. school bus gets clipped by CSX train
(The following appeared on the Daily American website on February 3, 2010.) SOMERSET, Pa. — A Somerset County Head Start bus was involved in an accident with a CSX train on Pleasant Avenue in Somerset at 1:21 p.m. Wednesday. No one was injured when the school bus,...
Wabtec has seen stock price rise for nine straight years
(The following story by Don Hammonds appeared on the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette website on February 4, 2010.) PITTSBURGH, Pa. — Wabtec Corp., a Wilmerding company that makes products for the railroad and transit industries, has had a pretty good run on the stock market...
Remote conrol maker Cattron-Theimeg Inc. sued for settling suit
(The following story by Joe Pinchot appeared on The Sharon, Pa., Herald website on February 3, 2010.) SHARPSVILLE, Pa. — An insurance company has sued a local company saying Cattron-Theimeg Inc. violated an insurance policy by settling a lawsuit without the carrier’s...
Two railways may be investors’ route to profit
(The following story by Brent Jang appeared on the Globe and Mail website on February 4, 2010.) TORONTO — When shareholders of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. next Thursday in Fort Worth, Tex., they will be saying farewell to the venerable railway's listing on the...
