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Opinion: Nation facing mobility crisis
(The following story by Doug Midkiff appeared on the Knoxville News-Sentinel website on September 8. Doug Midkiff has spent 64 years in the transportation industry. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — According to transportation experts, the nation is entering a mobility crisis that...
Amtrak Blue Water line grows
(The following story by Nicole Gerring appeared on the Times Herald website on September 8.) PORT HURON, Mich. — More people are leaving their cars behind and jumping aboard Amtrak trains for destinations throughout Michigan and the west. Riders said they are...
Amtrak chugs for record ridership
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Jim Shur on September 7.) ABOARD AMTRAK'S LINCOLN SERVICE — The Illinois cornfields whizzing past Mark Hardacre's view from the Amtrak cafe car had nothing on the memorable splendor the Australian had already...
U.S. struggles to stabilize security holes
(Gannett News Service circulated the following on September 10.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The federal government has made it a lot safer for Americans to fly since Sept. 11, 2001, but lawmakers have a lot more to do before people can feel secure about boarding trains or...
Ohio town receives federal grant toward train park
(The following report appeared on the Toledo Blade website on September 7.) FOSTORIA, Ohio — Federal "transportation enhancement" funds will provide more than $800,000 toward converting an abandoned factory site in the city into a park where train enthusiasts may...
Some raising a stink over CSX mess
(The following story by Stephen Gurr appeared on The Gainesville Times website on September 7.) GAINESVILLE, Ga. — Each weekday morning when Gloria Chandler drops off her twin 3-year-old girls at the Faith Christian Academy day care on Candler Highway, the...
Station video shows driver racing trains
(The following story by Emma Graves Fitzsimmons appeared on the Chicago Tribune website on September 6.) CHICAGO — Video captured by cameras at a train station shows a mother driving her four children in a mini-van was trying to race a freight train to a crossing...
CSX CEO sees ’07 freight volumes flat to down
(The following report by Nick Carey appeared at Reuters.com on September 6.) CHICAGO — U.S. railroad CSX Corp expects freight volumes to be flat or down a bit in 2007 due to softness in some parts of the U.S. economy, the company's top executive said on Thursday....
CSX plans to sell $1 billion in notes
(The Associated Press circulated the following on September 6.) NEW YORK — Railroad operator CSX Corp. plans to sell $1 billion in notes, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing Thursday. The offering is comprised of $400 million in 5.75 percent notes...
Opinion: Buffett and Lynch on rails
(The following column by John Reese appeared at Forbes.com on September 7. John P. Reese is founder and CEO of Validea.com and Validea Capital Management. He is also co-author of The Market Gurus: Stock Investing Strategies At the time of publication, John Reese and...
