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Track work will disrupt Amtrak service next week
(The following story by Scott Richardson appeared on the Pantagraph website on June 13.) NORMAL, Ill. — Track repairs in and around Springfield will interrupt Amtrak service on the St. Louis-Chicago corridor for about a week beginning Monday. But, people boarding in...
BNSF offers reward in Colorado derailment
(The following story appeared on the Rocky Mountain News website on June 12.) DENVER — Cleanup operations from Monday night's train derailment in Westminster continued Wednesday, while police look for suspects who put a tree stump on the tracks. The tracks are...
Support grows for Amtrak service in North Florida
(The following story by Dave Hodges appeared on the Tallahassee Democrat website on June 13.) TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Artist and schoolteacher Vaughan Greene likes to travel and says she would ride Amtrak if the passenger trains came through Tallahassee like they once...
Midwest flooding impacts Amtrak service
(The following appeared on the KCRG website on June 13.) CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Flooding in Iowa and Wisconsin is affecting Amtrak service between Chicago and the San Francisco Bay, via Omaha and Denver and between Chicago and Seattle/Portland, via Milwaukee and St....
BNSF, NS to unveil new Columbus-to-L.A. container service next month
(The following appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on June 12.) On July 7, BNSF Railway Co. and Norfolk Southern Corp. plan to launch a new "steel-wheel transcontinental" service for container-on-flat-car traffic moving between NS' Rickenbacker intermodal...
SEPTA police talks to resume this morning
(The following story by Robert Moran appeared on the Philadelphia Inquirer website on June 13.) PHILADELPHIA — SEPTA and the transit police union are expected to resume talks this morning to avoid a threatened strike by officers. "Transit police officers are still on...
LIRR pays record $52.9M in customers’ claims in 2007
(The following story by Steve Ritea appeared on the Newsday website on June 13.) NEW YORK — A spike in Long Island Rail Road passengers' claims of injury in gap incidents in large part caused the railroad to pay a record $52.9 million in injury and property claims...
N.Y. MTA riders, staff seek $1.2 billion in damages
(Reuters circulated the following on June 13.) NEW YORK — New York commuters, motorists and workers for the state's mass transit agency are seeking $1.2 billion in claims for injuries and damaged property, a report said on Thursday, a day after the agency warned it...
Private crossings, new technology, and crossing closures next focus of DOT Action Plan
(The U.S. Department of Transportation issued the following on June 12.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Several safety initiatives designed to reduce collisions between motor vehicles and trains will be completed before the end of 2008 as part of the ongoing U.S. Department of...
A mixed report on rail crossings
(Midlands News Service circulated the following story by Joe Ruff on June 13.) NORTH PLATTE, Neb. — The number of cars and trucks involved in train accidents at public rail crossings has dropped by about 60 percent over the past two decades, the Federal Railroad...
