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Teamsters offer Disaster Relief assistance in Kentucky
CLEVELAND, March 10 — The Teamsters Disaster Relief Fund is accepting applications for assistance from members in the state of Kentucky after severe storms, tornadoes, straight-line winds and flooding caused major damage on February 5-6, 2008. Kentucky residents in...
Breathe steady now: ‘Choo, choo, choo …’
(The following story by Sue Nowicki appeared on the Modesto Bee website on March 9.) MODESTO, Calif. — It's not every day that a baby is born on an Amtrak train, but it happened a couple of months ago. A Turlock woman was on a train heading from Bakersfield to...
Resort with a cold war secret
(The following story by Tom Uhlenbrock appeared on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch website on March 8.) WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — Twenty-six U.S. presidents have visited this mountainous area, which began as a frontier village built around the "healing" waters of a...
Patriot Rail lands major park contract
(The following appeared on the Boca Raton News website on March 10.) BOCA RATOn, Fla. — Boca Raton based Patriot Rail’s newly-formed, wholly-owned rail subsidiary, Sacramento Valley Railroad (SAV), has been awarded a long-term contract to provide exclusive rail...
Signal problems cause major NJ Transit, Amtrak delays
(The following story by Michael A. Wattkis appeared on The Star-Ledger website on March 10.) NEWARK, N.J. — NJ Transit and Amtrak trains were experiencing delays of as long as an hour this morning on the Northeast Corridor, North Jersey Coast Line and the Raritan...
Port of New Orleans: Cargo competition
(The following story by Jaime Guillet appeared on the New Orleans City Business website on March 10.) NEW ORLEANS — The Port of New Orleans plans to take advantage of its location at the axis of six chief railroads by expanding its on-dock rail facilities no later...
Opinion: That rumbling you hear is haggling over more freight trains
(The following column by Dennis Byrne appeared on the Chicago Tribune website on March 10.) CHICAGO — If dozens of freight trains were blasting through your neighborhood every day, you'd probably complain too. And so, folks in a ring of outer suburbs, from Waukegan,...
Lobbyist eyed for EJ&E crossings cash
(The following story by Paige Winfield appeared on the Suburban Chicago News website on March 10.) CHICAGO — As DuPage County officials anticipate more traffic congestion after the likely sale of the EJ&E railroad, they hope some federal dollars can at least soften...
BNSF derailment cleanup continues in N.D.
(The Associated Press circulated the following on March 10.) TRENTON, N.D. — It might take until the end of the month to finish cleaning up from a Jan. 12 derailment on the edge of this northwestern North Dakota town, BNSF Railway says. Spokesman Gus Melonas said the...
Amtrak ridership up in Georgia
(The following story by Ken Stanford appeared on the Access North Georgia website on March 10.) ATLANTA — New figures show more than 162,000 passengers were served by Amtrak in Georgia last year, with the Gainesville station recording one of the largest increases in...
