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Rail dream a couple of billion short
(The following story by Ben Wear appeared on the Austin American-Statesman website on November 5.) SAN MARCOS, Texas -- It seems an unlikely spot for something so ambitious, so expensive, so potentially transforming to Central Texas. River House, home of the...
CN told to shorten trains after B.C. derailments
(The Canadian Press circulated the following story on November 5.) VANCOUVER, B.C. -- Federal Transport Minister Jean Lapierre has ordered CN Rail to cut the length of its conventional trains on a treacherous stretch of track where there have been several recent...
10-car derailment in Dillon still being straightened out
(The Associated Press circulated the following story on November 6.) DILLON, Mont. -- Cleanup continued here Saturday at the site of a train derailment that happened two days earlier, sending 10 cars off the tracks and leading to the evacuation of a house and service...
FRA calls for more track inspections
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Mary Clare Jalonick on November 4.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Federal Railroad Administration has called for more detailed inspections of some railroad tracks in response to deadly train derailments in 2002 and...
SEPTA strike is over
(The following story by Larry King appeared on the Philadelphia Inquirer website on November 7.) PHILADELPHIA -- The seven-day SEPTA strike is over. After an all-day, all-night push to break the labor deadlock that had crippled area public transit for a week, Gov....
In DM&E, backers see jobs, prosperity
(The following story by Peter Harriman appeared on the Argus Leader website on November 6.) SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- Rail boss Kevin Schieffer and Sen. John Thune toured South Dakota on Saturday announcing a plan to seek a $2.5 billion federal loan to reconstruct 1,300...
CSX train derails after sparking small fires
(The following story by Allyson Bird appeared on The State website on November 7.) COLUMBIA, S.C. -- A sleepy Sunday afternoon in Prosperity turned into a jumble of traffic reroutes and flashes of red railroad-crossing lights after a CSX train derailed there. CSX...
Conn. loses out on federal rail security funds
(The following story by Mark Ginocchio appeared on the Stamford Advocate website on November 6.) STAMFORD, Conn. -- Under an agreement reached by state officials earlier this year, Connecticut will receive less than 1.5 percent of a $37.5 million federal homeland...
Ex-engineer knows train wreck terror
(The following story by Josh Kelley appeared on The Arizona Republic website on November 5.) PHOENIX, Ariz. -- A retired locomotive engineer, 86-year-old Art Dalmolin knows what it's like to watch your train kill helpless people caught in its path. So when he learned...
‘Trains built this country’
(The following story by Rachelle Treiber appeared on the Quad City Times website on November 7. Dan Quick is a member of BLET Division 200 in Davenport, Iowa.) DAVENPORT, Iowa -- On instinct, the Iowa, Chicago & Eastern Railroad locomotive engineer — Dan Sharp of Rock...
