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Bush proposes $900M for Amtrak
(Gannett News Service circulated the following article by Raju Chebium on February 17.) WASHINGTON -- President Bush is no longer threatening to shut down Amtrak trains that carry 68,000 passengers a day. But critics say the passenger railroad still isn't getting...
Interstate opens after derailment
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on February 17.) CORSICANA, Texas -- A roll of steel banding lost from a tractor-trailer rig on Interstate 45 hit the last car on a Union Pacific freight train Thursday, derailing the car. The tractor-trailer lost...
Interstate opens after derailment
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on February 17.) CORSICANA, Texas -- A roll of steel banding lost from a tractor-trailer rig on Interstate 45 hit the last car on a Union Pacific freight train Thursday, derailing the car. The tractor-trailer lost...
Trains collide in South Holland
(The following article was posted on Chicago television station ABC 7’s website on February 16.) CHICAGO -- A freight train derails in the south suburbs and scatters a load of vans. The Union Pacific train collided with a stopped freight train in South Holland. The...
Trains collide in South Holland
(The following article was posted on Chicago television station ABC 7’s website on February 16.) CHICAGO -- A freight train derails in the south suburbs and scatters a load of vans. The Union Pacific train collided with a stopped freight train in South Holland. The...
Investigators: Valley trains running by remote
(The following article was posted on Fresno, Calif., television station CBS 47’s website on February 16. Tim Smith is the BLET’s Calif. State Legislative Board Chairman.) FRESNO, Calif. -- Mention remote control trains and most of us think about toy trains chugging...
Investigators: Valley trains running by remote
(The following article was posted on Fresno, Calif., television station CBS 47’s website on February 16. Tim Smith is the BLET’s Calif. State Legislative Board Chairman.) FRESNO, Calif. -- Mention remote control trains and most of us think about toy trains chugging...
NS project to cut miles to Midwest due by 2009
(The following article by Gregory Richards was posted on the Virginian-Pilot website on February 16.) NORFOLK, Va. -- Norfolk Southern Corp. expects to complete a $311 million rail project, shaving 225 miles off container train trips between Hampton Roads and the...
NS project to cut miles to Midwest due by 2009
(The following article by Gregory Richards was posted on the Virginian-Pilot website on February 16.) NORFOLK, Va. -- Norfolk Southern Corp. expects to complete a $311 million rail project, shaving 225 miles off container train trips between Hampton Roads and the...
Jurors award $1.86M in N.D. derailment
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on February 16.) MINNEAPOLIS -- Canadian Pacific Railway must pay four people nearly $1.86 million for injuries they suffered as a result of a 2002 derailment near Minot, N.D., that spilled a cloud of anhydrous...
