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Holiday Train helps feed the needy
(The following article by Heather Asiyanbi was posted on the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel website on December 17.) STURTEVANT, Wisc. -- Despite bitterly cold weather, hundreds of people gathered to welcome Santa and the 2005 Holiday Train to the Sturtevant Amtrak Depot...
Willie Nelson headlines last leg of Guthrie’s Katrina tour
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on December 19.) NEW ORLEANS -- Folk singer Arlo Guthrie and Willie Nelson gave a sold-out crowd something they've needed since Hurricane Katrina — good music, a good time and a reminder of what they love most...
Man charged in NJ Transit ‘bomb’ call
(The following article by Bonnie Friedman was posted on the Jersey Journal website on December 17.) JERSEY CITY, N.J. -- A Jersey City man was arrested Wednesday for calling in a bomb threat to a NJ Transit bus in August, said Dan Stessel, a spokesman for agency....
EPA order may set up showdown with UP
(The following article by Nancy Gaarder was posted on the Omaha World Herald website on December 17.) OMAHA, Neb. -- The federal government has raised the ante in its politically charged negotiations with Union Pacific Railroad over the cost of cleaning up Omaha's...
IC&E derailment not life threatening
(The following article by Deb Nicklay was posted on the Mason City Globe Gazette website on December 19.) NORA SPRINGS, Iowa -- The Sunday morning derailment here of an IC&E Railroad car, filled with anhydrous ammonia, was not life threatening, Fire Chief Bob Willsher...
CSX train derails; bridge out at Marietta
(The following article by Justin McIntosh was posted on the Marietta Times website on December 19.) MARIETTA, Ohio -- Eight CSX rail cars filled with coal derailed from their tracks near Ohio 7 outside Marietta early this morning, sending several of them crashing down...
Cars derail in Laramie train yard
(The following article by Micah Sturr was posted on the Laramie Boomerang website on December 16.) LARAMIE, Wyo. -- Eight railroad cars from a Union Pacific train derailed at the Laramie train yard Thursday night. No one was injured in the derailment and no hazardous...
Railroads ask release from talks
(Bloomberg News circulated the following article on December 17.) WASHINGTON -- Union Pacific Corp. and other large U.S. railroads asked federal mediators to release them from talks with unions representing 85,000 workers, moving the two sides a step closer to a...
All aboard the Santa Train
(The following article by Olivia Fortson was posted on the Charlotte Observer website on December 16.) CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- In the early '30s, the Southern Railroad began giving out gifts of candy and fruit to children whose parents worked there, and to children who...
Latest CN train derailment prompts investigation
(The Canadian Press circulated the following article on December 16.) PRINCE GEORGE -- A CN Rail train derailed near Fort St. James yesterday, the latest in a string of accidents. CN spokesman Graham Dallas said 15 cars of a 48-car northbound train left the tracks at...
