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Crowds jubilant as Obama train rolls through
(The following story by Paul West appeared on the Baltimore Sun website on January 18, 2009.) ABOARD THE 2009 INAUGURAL SPECIAL — They turned out by the thousands along the steel rails yesterday, bundled against the cold, waving American flags, toting digital cameras...
Locomotive Engineers & Trainmen News for January available online
CLEVELAND — The January 2009 issue of the Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen News is now available on the BLET website. Past issues of the official BLET monthly publication dating to 1997 are also on the BLET website. The current issue is available here as a PDF:...
RRB customer service plan update
(The U.S. Railroad Retirement Board issued the following on January 12, 2009.) CHICAGO — The U.S. Railroad Retirement Board’s Customer Service Plan promotes the principles and objectives of customer-driven quality service agency-wide. The RRB’s revised plan, effective...
EPA’s lead cleanup plan in Omaha criticized by UP, others
(The following story by Nancy Gaarder appeared on the Omaha World-Herald website on January 16, 2009.) OMAHA, Neb. — With the federal government on the verge of finalizing the scope of Omaha's lead cleanup, one of the companies that the government says is liable has...
Virginia Beach to buy likely right-of-way for light rail
(The following story by Aaron Applegate appeared on The Virginian-Pilot website on January 15, 2009.) VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — The City Council has agreed to spend $10 million to buy the 10.6-mile Norfolk Southern Corp. right-of-way, the most likely route for a light...
BNSF offers faster shipping options from the Pacific Northwest
(BNSF Railway issued the following on January 15, 2009.) FORT WORTH, Texas — BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) today announced it is offering an express international container service from the high-capacity ports of Seattle and Tacoma, Wash., to BNSF's intermodal...
Metra service disrupted by derailment
(The Associated Press circulated the following on January 16, 2009.) CHICAGO — Morning service on the Metra commuter rail line between Antioch and Chicago has been canceled due to the derailment of a freight train. According to officials, several cars of a Canadian...
Firefighters put out UP rail car blaze
(The following story by Ildefonso Ortiz appeared on The Brownsville Herald website on January 15, 2009.) BROWNSVILLE, Texas — Brownsville firefighters spent several hours putting out a rail car fire Thursday evening at the Union Pacific rail yard in Olmito. The fire...
KCS rail cars derail in Pittsburg, Kan.
(The following story by Andrew Nash appeared on The Morning Sun website on January 15, 2009.) PITTSBURG, Kan. — Three railcars derailed at about 9:45 a.m. this morning, southeast of Mt. Carmel Regional Medical Center and blocked the tracks on S. Rouse and as far north...
Amtrak train crashes into truck near Carlinville, Ill.
(The following story by Kim Bell appeared on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch website on January 15, 2009.) CARLINVILLE, Ill. -- No one was seriously injured today on an Amtrak train that smashed into a truck hauling garbage in Macoupin County, an Amtrak spokesman said....
