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Opinion: This isn’t enough
(The following editorial by P.J. Crowley and Ben Armbruster was posted on the New York Daily News website on July 10.) NEW YORK -- The transit bombings in London, coming roughly 16 months after a similar attack in Madrid, represent a second grim wakeup call for the...
Opinion: America’s vulnerable railways
(The following editorial by Thomas Oliphant was posted on the Boston Globe website on July 10.) WASHINGTON -- Few outside the usual band of lobbyists and inside players noticed, but just three weeks ago, a Senate committee cut the budget for rail and mass transit...
What it takes to keep blood off the tracks
(The following article by Angie C. Marek was posted on the U.S. News & World Report website on July 10.) WASHINGTON -- Last week's attacks in the London Underground provided a chilling reminder that mass transit systems have become the terrorists' latest target of...
Chertoff says U.S. transit is safe, but not perfect
(The following article by Brian Knowlton was posted on the International Herald Tribune website on July 10.) WASHINGTON -- American trains, subways and buses are safer now than before the London or Madrid bombing attacks, top homeland security officials said today....
U.S. keeping mass transit alert on orange
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on July 10.) WASHINGTON -- The United States will keep its terror alert on high for mass transit as British officials try to determine the culprits and methods used in the London bus and rail bombings, Homeland...
Three bodies found in wreckage of trains; search continues for fourth
(The following story by Sylvain Metz appeared on the Clarion Ledger website on July 11.) YAZOO COUNTY, Miss. -- The bodies of two men were pulled today from the wreckage of two freight-train locomotives that collided head-on early Sunday in the Anding community. That...
Rail freight traffic up in June
(The Association of American Railroads issued the following news release on July 7.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. freight railroad carload traffic rose 0.1 percent (2,245 carloads) while U.S. intermodal traffic rose 4.0 percent (42,134 trailers and containers) in June...
Lawyer hunts potential plaintiffs against CP Rail in North Dakota derailment
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Blake Nicholson on July 8.) BISMARCK, N.D. -- An attorney representing residents of Minot, N.D., who are suing Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. hopes every household in Ward County will soon be notified that it...
Tax credits enable MRL rail fixes
(The following article by Brad Fjeldheim was posted on the Billings Gazette website on July 8.) BILLINGS, Mont. -- The Montana Rail Link crews replacing 6.3 miles of track between Billings and Laurel this week were joined Thursday by Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont. The $3.8...
Utilities report no problems from cuts in coal deliveries
(The Associated Press circulated the following story on July 7.) OMAHA, Neb. -- The rail line work that has curtailed coal shipments from Wyoming has not affected power output from Nebraska electric utilities. "It hasn't caused us a problem in terms of our ability to...
