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Locomotive visits Mount Dora’s Festival of Steam
(The following story by Christine Cole appeared on the Orlando Sentinel website on February 28.) MOUNT DORA, Fla. — The iron horse puffs, chugs, hisses and blows clouds of smoke. After a hiatus of more than six years, a locomotive will return steam travel to Mount...
Small Canadian town awarded high-speed rail
(The following story by Tess Kalinowski and Isabel Teotonio appeared on the Toronto Star website on February 28.) TORONTO — At least 900 Durham and Peterborough-area commuters are about to get the kind of rail service to Union Station that would make thousands of...
NS sees U.S. housing weak till 2009
(Reuters circulated the following on October 27.) CHICAGO —The struggling U.S. housing market may not recover until some point in 2009, the top executive at U.S. railroad Norfolk Southern Corp. said on Wednesday. "Our best guess is ... the housing thing is here to...
UP train comes off track in West Texas
(The Associated Press circulated the following on February 28.) ALPINE, Texas — Cleanup was under way in West Texas on Wednesday after nearly 90 cars from a train carrying hazardous materials derailed and prompted temporary evacuations, Union Pacific Corp. said. The...
Editorial: On time!
(The following editorial appeared on the Sacramento Bee website on February 28.) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — CC Riders, commuters who regularly ride the Capitol Corridor trains between Placer County, Sacramento and the Bay Area, wrote a letter to Thomas F. Jacobi the other...
New LIRR timetables take effect Monday
(The following story by John Valenti appeared on the Newsday website on February 28.) NEW YORK — Riders, no doubt, might view it as adding insult to injury. But the Metropolitan Transportation Authority will raise fares on the Long Island Rail Road on Saturday. On...
EJ&E move snagged by questions
(The following story by Keith Benman appeared on the Munster Times website on February 28, 2008.) MUNSTER, Ind. — Gary/Chicago International Airport has received a 15-page list of questions from Canadian National Railway on the airport's opposition to its proposed...
Editorial: Upstate N.Y. needs better rail service
(The following editorial appeared on the Democrat and Chronicle website on February 28.) ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Recently, Gov. Spitzer spoke eloquently about the federal government's responsibility to help states such as New York pay for transportation. He invoked...
Frustrated natives plan another Day of Action
(The following story by Christina Spencer appeared on the Sault Star website on February 28.) OTTAWA — Frustrated by what they say is lack of support in the federal budget, Canada’s Natives plan another national “day of action” like the one last June in which the main...
Freight hub works for Texas
(The following appeared on the Liverpool City Champion website on February 28.) LIVERPOOL CITY, Australia — The company that says it introduced inland ports to America is full of praise for a similar freight transport network for Sydney, but stresses the importance of...
