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City to sue Caltrans over trash on roads
(The following story by Jim Herron Zamora appeared on the San Francisco Chronicle website on August 8.) OAKLAND -- The city of Oakland plans to sue the state Department of Transportation for failing to clean up trash and prevent dumping on dozens of Caltrans...
BNSF train derails in Boulder
(The following story by Brad Turner appeared on The Daily Times-Call website on August 6.) BOULDER, Colo. -- A train hauling molten sulfur through east Boulder derailed Friday afternoon, backing up traffic for 2 1/2 hours after it blocked crossings at two major...
Great Amtrak police work
(The following letter to the editor appeared on the Philadelphia Inquirer website on August 6.) PHILADELPHIA --Heroic actions taken by brave police officers occur every day, but here's one that deserves special mention. I boarded a SEPTA train at Amtrak's 30th Street...
Feds sidetrack Chicago railroad revamp
(The following story by Bob Tita appeared on Crain’s Chicago Business website on August 8.) CHICAGO -- An effort to untangle Chicago's snarled railroad traffic suffered a setback when Congress earmarked far less money for the project than planners had anticipated....
Lawyers want to extend NS deadline
(The following report appeared on The State website on August 8.) GRANITEVILLE, S.C. -- People who were evacuated for days after a deadly chlorine leak following a train wreck in Graniteville need an extra month to file claims against the railroad company, a lawyer in...
Opinion: Reviving organized labor
(The following editorial by Peter Morici appeared on the Baltimore Sun website on August 8.) BALTIMORE -- Andrew Stern has taken the Service Employees International Union out of the AFL-CIO, along with the Teamsters and United Food and Commercial Workers. Given...
B.C. Rail derailment dumps chemical into river
(The following story by Rod Mickleburgh appeared on the Globe and Mail website on August 8.) VANCOUVER, B.C. -- The toxic chemical spill from a derailed Canadian National tank car into the swift flowing Cheakamus River has had a devastating effect on the river's...
18 released from hospital after Ventura County Amtrak crash
(The Associated Press circulated the following story on August 6.) CAMARILLO, Calif. -- All 18 Amtrak passengers and crew members taken to hospitals after their train collided with a dump truck had been released by Saturday morning, officials said. The two people in...
Approx. 20 hurt as train hits truck in California
(The Associated Press circulated the following story on August 6.) SOMIS, Calif. -- An Amtrak train collided with a dump truck crossing the tracks in southern California, injuring approximately 20 people, two of them seriously, officials said. It was the second...
Opinion: Don’t railroad Amtrak
(The following editorial appeared on the Atlanta Journal-Constitution website on August 8.) ATLANTA -- There's little disagreement that Amtrak is broken and needs to be fixed. But a Bush administration plan to starve the national railway to death and auction its...
