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Security has left the station
(The following story by Jeremiah Stettler appeared on The Salt Lake Tribune website on July 22.) SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — Five men boarded the east-bound California Zephyr with a cardboard box containing $700,000 in savings bonds stolen from a western Nevada suburb and...
Texas floods stall Amtrak train
(UPI circulated the following on July 21.) SAN ANTONIO — More flooding hit Texas early Saturday as storms brought heavy rain to the San Antonio area. Much of the area received a foot of rain. The National Weather Service reported as much as 17 inches overnight in...
Trying to beat the train can be a deadly game
(The following story by Billy Townsend appeared on the Tampa Tribune website on July 20.) LAKELAND, Fla. — Count slowly to 74. Now, as you're counting, imagine you are sitting in your car, waiting at a train crossing. You are late for picking up your child at day...
Tragedy: the view from the tracks
(The following story by Pat Walters appeared on the St. Petersburg Times website on July 22.) ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Silver Star No. 91 screamed as it hurtled the tracks from Jacksonville to Tampa one day last fall. One and a half thousand tons of smooth, silver metal...
Amtrak, BLET reach tentative deal
(The Associated Press circulated the following on July 20.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — A union representing Amtrak's 1,300 locomotive engineers announced Friday that it has reached a tentative agreement on a new labor contract with the passenger railroad. Details were being...
FedEx CEO defends Railway Labor Act jurisdiction
(The following story by Bartholomew Sullivan appeared on the Memphis Commercial Appeal website on July 20.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — FedEx CEO and founder Frederick W. Smith, testifying before a Senate subcommittee Thursday, said removing FedEx Express drivers from the...
Family loses appeal on 2002 NS train-truck collision
(The following story by Beverly Majors appeared on the Oak Ridger website on July 19.) OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — The family of a Clinton woman killed in a train-truck collision in 2002 has lost an appeal on the local court’s judgment. The Court of Appeals of Tennessee at...
CSX to ask for early start at Fla. transfer site
(The following story by John Chambliss appeared on The Lakeland Ledger website on July 20.) WINTER HAVEN, Fla. — CSX will begin talks with a state oversight committee in August to allow construction of a rail transfer center to begin while a development of a regional...
Kids at day-care center accidentally sprayed with railroad herbicide
(The Associated Press circulated the following on July 18.) ABINGDON, Va. — Children at a day-care center were accidentally sprayed with herbicide Tuesday when a train sprayed herbicide on weeds along a track near the facility. Four kids were playing by a fence at...
BNSF train derails in Mo.
(The following report appeared on the Southeast Missourian website on July 19.) SIKESTON, Mo. — A Burlington Northern Santa Fe mixed-frieght train derailed roughly one mile south of Sikeston, Mo., at 11:50 a.m. today, causing authorities to block off a two-mile radius...
