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CP Rail Holiday Train will stop in Hastings again this year
(The following story by Jane Lightbourn appeared on The Hastings Star-Gazette website on November 17.) HASTINGS, Minn. — The Canadian Pacific Holiday Train will make another stop in Hastings to benefit the Hastings Family Service emergency food shelf. Last year, the...
Russian train conductor returns $291,000 to drunken passenger
(The following appeared on the Russian News & Information Agency website on November 18.) ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia — The conductor of a train from Moscow to the central Russian city of Volgograd has returned 8 million rubles ($291,000) to a passenger who forgot the money...
Nov. 18, 1883: Railroad time goes coast to coast
(The following story by Randy Alfred appeared at Wired.com on November 18.) 1883: U.S. and Canadian railways adopt five standardized time zones to replace the multiplicity of local times in communities across the continent. Everyone would soon be operating on...
KCS Board of Directors declares quarterly preferred dividend
(Kansas City Southern issued the following on November 14.) KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City Southern's (KCS) Board of Directors declared a regular quarterly dividend of 25 cents per share on the outstanding KCS 4% non-cumulative preferred stock. The dividend is payable...
Fallen leaves halt half of Baltimore’s light rail system
(The following story by Michael Dresser and Brent Jones appeared on the Baltimore Sun website on November 18.) BALTIMORE — Thousands of Baltimore-area commuters were forced to abandon trains and board buses yesterday, the first workday disrupted by a light rail...
Opinion: Bring back Amtrak’s Sunset Limited
(The following column by Allan Thomas appeared on the Press-Register website on November 17.) MOBILE, Ala. — Coastal Alabama, in conjunction with neighboring states Mississippi and Florida, has a chance to secure the restoration of the Sunset Limited — Amtrak's...
As ethanol shipments grow, safety remains a concern
(Reuters circulated the following story by Christopher Doering on November 17.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Surging U.S. ethanol production may force the industry to step up transport safety measures in the face of growing concern that communities are ill-prepared to deal with...
CSX gets around Chicago congestion
(The following story by Thomas L. Gallagher appeared on the Traffic World website on November 17.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Since October, CSX has been running an intermodal route directly to Avon, Ind., from the West Coast. The small Midwestern hub serves one large...
Eight men charged with stealing from NS, CSX trains in northern Indiana
(The following appeared at WNDU.com on November 17.) SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Eight men have been charged with stealing items from trains in northern Indiana. The defendants are John A. Frederick, Phillip A. Montorsi, Victor A. Montorsi, William J. Montorsi, Ryan P....
Camp-car plan given go-ahead
(The following story by Michael Schroeder appeared on The Journal Gazette website on November 18.) FORT WAYNE, Ind. — On Monday night, the Fort Wayne-Allen County health board approved a local ordinance regulating railroad mobile camp car systems stopping in Allen...
