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Teamsters seek rail security focus
(The following report by Jonathan Marino appeared at GovExec.com on January 8.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Officials from the International Brotherhood of Teamsters on Monday said they will push lawmakers to focus on rail security and will oppose immigration reform proposals...
Volunteer firefighter couple suffering Graniteville effects
(The following report by Diane Cho appeared on television station WRDW’s website on January 8. A video is available at: http://www.wrdw.com/news/headlines/5118681.html) GRANITEVILLE, S.C. — January 6 is a somber anniversary in the town of Graniteville. Two years ago,...
Proposed Graniteville settlement
(The following report appeared on The State website on January 9.) COLUMBIA, S.C. — Under a class-action settlement given preliminary approval Monday, Norfolk Southern would pay the following amounts to people injured by chlorine exposure in the January 2005...
Judge approves NS settlement in Graniteville case
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Seanna Adcox on January 9.) COLUMBIA, S.C. — A judge approved a settlement Monday to pay thousands of dollars to hundreds of people injured in a train derailment that released a toxic cloud over the town of...
FRA approves BNSF positive train control program
(The following story by Dan Weikel appeared on the Los Angeles Times website on January 9.) LOS ANGELES — A collision-avoidance system that transportation safety board investigators say could have prevented the fatal collision of two trains in Placentia nearly five...
Amtrak offers deal on tickets for prospective college students
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on January 6.) WASHINGTON -- High school students and their parents can get a deal on Amtrak tickets if they take the train on college search trips. The passenger railroad has announced a new buy-one-get-one-free...
D.C. subway train derails
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on January 8.) WASHINGTON -- A subway train derailed Sunday near downtown Washington, sending 20 people to the hospital and prompting the rescue of 60 people from a tunnel, officials said. The accident happened at...
Train kills teenage graffiti artist
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on January 6.) NEW YORK -- A 13-year-old boy had just finished painting graffiti near railroad tracks when he was struck and killed by a commuter train, authorities and friends said Saturday. A Long Island Rail...
S.C. town recalls toxic 2005 train wreck
(The Associated Press circulated the following article by Jacob Jordan on January 7.) GRANITEVILLE, S.C. -- Firefighter Clay Swearingen can still remember the morning two years ago when a toxic chlorine cloud released from a train derailment blanketed his truck and...
Impact of Texas derailment still felt
(The following article by Brian Chasnoff was posted on the San Antonio Express-News website on January 7.) SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- In some ways, serenity has been restored to a neighborhood just north of downtown that saw a day of havoc in October when a Union Pacific...
