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Family of late BLET member donates caboose
(The following story by Charlotte Keenan appeared on the St. Joe News-Press website on August 9. Edward Kirk was a member of BLET Division 107 in St. Joseph, Mo.) ST. JOSEPH, Mo. — In his 41 years of life, Edward Kirk had been an Eagle Scout, a captain in the U.S....
Amtrak train pops off Detroit track
(The following story by Cecil Angel appeared on the Detroit Free Press website on August 8.) DETROIT — An Amtrak engine popped off the track in Detroit this evening causing a two-hour train delay on the Wolverine Line between Chicago and Pontiac, an Amtrak spokesman...
Metro-North to Penn Station? Plan may take awhile
(The following story by Ken Valenti appeared on The Journal News website on August 11.) NEW YORK — If Metro-North Railroad ran some trains to Pennsylvania Station from Westchester and points north, Yonkers resident Denis Del Bene could skip the Manhattan shuttle train...
Residents see tree travesty, but NS just following the rules
(The following story by Anne Blythe appeared on the News-Observer website on August 9.) DURHAM, N.C. — It looks like a posse of crazed beavers attacked the main rail line through Durham, leaving behind a trail of ravaged stumps and limbs. In fact, the arboreal...
MARC growth plan stalls
(The following story by Michael Dresser appeared on the Baltimore Sun website on August 11.) BALTIMORE — In a setback to its ambitious effort to expand the MARC commuter train service, the Maryland Transit Administration has dropped plans to add weekend service to its...
Union Pacific could derail Tracy train plan
(The following story by Mike Martinez and Paul Burgarino appeared on the Tri-Valley Herald website on August 10.) TRACY, Calif. — It's been a longtime goal of many to bring trains to downtown Tracy. It's a campaign issue for some seeking a seat on the City Council,...
Georgia railroads enjoy resurgence
(The following story by Dan Chapman appeared on The Atlanta Journal-Constitution website on August 10.) AMERICUS, Ga. — Locomotive 3109, with cracked mirrors and chipped paint, plodded across southwest Georgia last week, a slow, yet profitable workhorse in a...
Amtrak CEO: The pull of heavy industry
(The following story by Alex Kummant appeared on the New York Times website on August 10.) NEW YORK — A streak of resilience runs through my family. Three of my grandparents’ families immigrated in the 1700s to Russia, then under Catherine the Great, from Germany....
BNSF’s PRB coal train loadings rebound in July
(The following appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on August 11.) Better weather in the Powder River Basin (PRB) meant better coal traffic figures for BNSF Railway Co. in July. Daily loadings averaged 50.3 trains, up nearly 9 percent from June's average of...
High gas prices prompting motorists to use trains
(The Associated Press circulated the following on August 11.) LANSING, Mich. — The high cost of gas is pushing many travelers between Michigan and Chicago to passenger trains. The Detroit News reports that the number of riders on several Amtrak train routes rose...
