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MKT locomotive comes reeling through Katy
(The following story by Luciano Battistini appeared on the Katy Times website on May 3, 2009.) KATY, Texas — The Katy Railroad Historical Society is holding its annual convention in the City of Katy from Thursday to Sunday. The city is hosting the Katy Railroad...
Visitors stand in awe of steam engine from another era
(The following story by Toni Scott appeared on the Oroville Mercury Register website on May 1, 2009.) OROVILLE, Calif. — Though visitors flocked to see an impressive steam locomotive Thursday and Friday, it was the lasting impression of a historic era that kept train...
Parked CSX engine derails in Va.
(The following story by Monty Tayloe appeared on The Winchester Star website on May 1, 2009.) WINCHESTER, Va. — An unattended CSX locomotive derailed near a busy downtown intersection Friday afternoon, spilling fuel and complicating preparations for the Shenandoah...
Hydrochloric acid leaks from UP railcar; no injuries
(The following story by Nathaniel Lukefahr appeared on The Facts website on May 2, 2009.) FREEPORT, Texas — A pencil-sized hole in the membrane of a railcar caused a leak of about 100 gallons of hydrochloric acid early Friday at a Union Pacific switchyard on FM 1495,...
Union Pacific derailment reported near Mount Shasta
(The following story appeared on the Record Searchlight website on May 2, 2009.) MOUNT SHASTA, Calif. — Twelve empty cars of a mile-long Union Pacific freight train derailed early this morning near the Truck Village Drive area between Mount Shasta and Weed,...
NY state aims to get up to speed with rail project
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Chris Carola on May 1, 2009.) FONDA, N.Y. — Mayor Kimberly Flander is in mid-sentence when the train horn blares, followed by a rumble felt throughout her two-room office in this tiny Mohawk River village....
Norfolk Southern idles 70 in Columbus, Ohio
(The following story by Dan Gearino appeared on the Columbus Dispatch website on May 3, 2009. Tim Hanely is Chairman of the BLET Ohio State Legislative Board.) COLUMBUS, Ohio — A continuing drop in rail traffic is leading to further cuts at Buckeye Yard on the West...
Port rail yard relocation, long in planning, will start chugging this summer
(The following story by Dan Wallach appeared on the Beaumont Enterprise website on May, 1, 2009.) BEAUMONT, Texas — A KCS train clattering eastbound over the Neches River made it hard to hear Port of Beaumont director Chris Fisher as he explained the port's expansion...
Burrowing a tunnel under the Hudson River and into the future
(The following story by Mark Mueller appeared on The Star-Ledger website on May 3, 2009.) NEWARK, N.J. — Sometime next month, the nation's biggest mass transit construction project in generations will begin, modestly, in North Bergen, where earth-moving machines will...
Florida’s SunRail vote haunts Tri-Rail
(The following appeared on the St. Petersburg Times website on May 1, 2009.) ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A handful of senators who voted Friday to kill the Central Florida commuter rail deal known as SunRail also voted against a $2 car-rental tax that would have helped...
