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Opinion: In race at rail crossings, there can be no winners
(The following editorial appeared on the San Antonio Express-News website on June 13.) SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- Ignoring warning devices at railroad crossings is a dangerous practice and could prove costly. Three dozen Bexar County motorists learned that firsthand last...
Key railroads expect growth in shipments
(The following report appeared on the Richmond Times-Dispatch website on June 10.) RICHMOND, Va. -- CSX Corp. and Norfolk-based Norfolk Southern Corp., the biggest railroads in the Eastern U.S., forecast more shipment growth this year as demand rises to haul cargo...
Rail workers apprehensive over CSX tunnel in Baltimore
(The following report appeared on Baltimore television station WBAL’s website on June 10.) BALTIMORE -- Railroad workers still have safety concerns over a Baltimore tunnel almost four years after a train carrying hazardous materials derailed and caught fire. At a U.S....
Blast derails train from Chechnya
(The following story by Kim Murphy appeared on the Los Angeles Times website on June 13.) MOSCOW -- An explosion derailed a train bound from Chechnya to Moscow on Sunday, injuring eight people seriously enough to be hospitalized as festivities began for the Russian...
Tampered rocket motor container prompts evacuation
(The Associated Press circulated the following story on June 10.) YERMO -- The lock on a railroad car carrying a U.S. Navy rocket motor was tampered with early Friday, prompting authorities to evacuate at least 100 residents who live near the train yard in this high...
Lawyers cite fatigue in fatal 2002 BNSF rail crash
(The following story by Dan Weikel appeared on the Los Angeles Times website on June 12.) LOS ANGELES -- A freight train conductor blamed for a crash that killed three Metrolink passengers and injured more than 260 in Placentia three years ago was tired after weeks of...
Amtrak: Stuck in its tracks
(The following story by Matthew L. Wald appeared on the New York Times website on June 12.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Amtrak, it turns out, may be too sick to kill. The national passenger railroad has never managed to pay its own way, absorbing $29 billion in federal aid...
B.C. ports stand to gain
(The following story by Brent Jang appeared on the Globe and Mail website on June 10.) TORONTO -- The world's ports are bursting at the seams because of booming Asian trade, spurring plans for massive expansion, and Canada's West Coast stands to benefit, a study has...
Locomotive engineer wrongfully arrested
(The following story by Nancy Flake appeared on The Conroe Courier website on June 9.) CONROE, Texas -- A Conroe man who works as a locomotive engineer is claiming he was wrongfully arrested by the Montgomery County Sheriff's Department for not presenting his driver's...
Aberdeen still unsure of NJT line
(The following article by Justin Vellucci was posted on the Asbury Park Press website on June 10.) ABERDEEN, N.J. -- Township officials have declined to take a stance on New Jersey Transit's proposed Monmouth-Ocean-Middlesex (MOM) rail line, part of which could run...
