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BNSF to report fourth-quarter earnings January 23
(BNSF issued the following news release on January 2.) FORT WORTH, Texas -- Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation will report its fourth-quarter 2006 earnings in a Webcast at 8:45 a.m. Eastern Time January 23, 2007. BNSF plans to issue its earnings press release at...
Bystander, seizure victim survive dive under train
(Newsday posted the following article by Andrew Strickler on its website on January 3.) NEW YORK -- When Wesley Autrey saw a man suffering a seizure fall onto the subway tracks, he jumped in to save the stranger. As he tried to pull the man to safety at the Harlem...
Union Station evacuated due to smoke
(Washington television station NBC4 posted the following article on its website on January 2.) WASHINGTON -- Amtrak officials said Union Station in downtown Washington was evacuated due to some type of smoke condition. Officials said diesel locomotive smoke coming...
Rail line cleared after derailment in Texas
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on January 2.) DALLAS, Texas -- Union Pacific crews have cleared the site of a derailment in the town of West that left five cars off the tracks. Nobody was hurt. UP spokesman Mark Davis told The Associated Press...
Landslide causes train derailment
(Philadelphia television station NBC10 posted the following article on its website on January 2.) LOWER MERION, Pa. -- A landslide caused a freight train to derail on a track that runs parallel to the Schuylkill Expressway in Lower Merion Township on Tuesday morning,...
Railroads rush goods and growth into Memphis
(The following article by Jane Roberts was posted on the Memphis Commercial Appeal website on December 29.) MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- The crossroads of the supply chain intersect in Memphis, bringing a disproportionate amount of train and truck traffic and a windfall of goods...
Disability activists rap LIRR
(Newsday posted the following article by Jennifer Maloney on its website on December 30.) NEW YORK -- A disabled riders advocacy group plans to issue a report slamming the MTA and the Long Island Rail Road for failing to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act...
Amtrak’s Downeaster celebrates fifth-year anniversary
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on December 30.) PORTLAND, Maine -- No one knew whether Amtrak's Downeaster would be a success when it departed Portland with its first passengers five years ago on a dark, rainy morning. More than 1.4 million...
Landowners object to rail plan
(The following article by Dustin Bleizeffer was posted on the Casper Star-Tribune website on January 2.) CASPER, Wyo. -- Donley Darnell and Rick Wehri are ranchers in the Thunder Basin National Grassland in northeast Wyoming, where the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern...
Agencies seek rail link across Altamont Pass
(The following article by Paul Burgarino was posted on the Inside Bay Area website on January 2.) OAKLAND, Calif. -- A conglomerate of public agencies in the Bay Area and Northern San Joaquin Valley is working to create a railway through the Altamont Pass from the...
