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Temporary CSX bridge is open
(The following report appeared on The Parkersburg, W.Va., News & Sentinel on December 29.) MARIETTA, Ohio -- Trains rolled along the rails through the city early Saturday morning as the tracks previously shut down by a train derailment Dec. 19 were reopened. Workers...
Union Pacific evicts Boy Scout troop
(The following story by Tasha Bartholomew appeared on the Daily Review website on December 29.) SAN LEANDRO, Calif. — For the past 85 years, Boy Scouts Troop 503 has spent countless hours helping the community. Now the group is hoping to find itself on the receiving...
‘Ice Train’s’ owners step forward
(The following story by John Brewer appeared on the Pioneer Press website on December 28.) ST. PAUL, Minn. -- The owners of Ice Train, a Siberian husky found frozen to railroad tracks in western Wisconsin last week, have come forward, but not necessarily to claim...
Passenger trains running again between Seattle and Portland
(The following report appeared on the Seattle Post-Intelligencer website on December 28.) SEATTLE -- Passenger train service between Seattle and Portland resumed Tuesday after a mudslide south of Tacoma on Christmas Day closed the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad...
Man hurt in truck ‘gamble’ with train
(The following story by Patrick Maloney appeared on the London Free Press website on December 28.) LONDON, Ontario -- A driver walked away from his mangled pickup truck but his passenger suffered life-threatening injuries after witnesses said they tried to beat a...
$500M lawsuit against CSX languishes in court system
(The following story by Robert Bowden appeared on the Desoto Sun Herald website on December 28.) ARCADIA, N.C. -- A $500 million lawsuit by residents of Hull against CSX Railroad -- and a second $1 million-plus suit against the railroad company -- inched slowly...
Bombardier wins $262M contract
(Bombardier Transportation issued the following news release on December 27.) BERLIN -- Bombardier Transportation and its partner Alstom Transport LHB have won an order to supply Deutsche Bahn with suburban railway trains worth about $402 million US, with the...
Japanese railway president to resign over fatal derailment
(The Associated Press circulated the following story on December 27.) TOKYO — The president of a Japanese railroad is resigning to take responsibility for an April derailment that killed 107 people, the country’s deadliest railway accident in decades, a company...
NS train derails in Greensboro
(The following Associated Press report appeared on the WISTV website on December 27.) GREENSBORO, N.C. -- A Greensboro street is blocked after eleven cars in a Norfolk Southern freight train tipped over Monday night. The tracks are shut down as the company tries to...
Sierra Club gives BNSF a dubious award
(The Associated Press circulated the following story on December 28.) SPOKANE — An environmental group has given its "Dead Swan Award" to a railroad that built a fueling depot over an aquifer that is the only source of drinking water for more than 500,000 people. The...
