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Norfolk Southern reports record year
(The following article by Christopher Dinsmore was posted on the Virginian-Pilot website on January 27.) NEW YORK -- Norfolk Southern Corp. outstripped even its own high expectations in 2004 as strong demand for rail transportation pushed it to its best year ever. The...
Norfolk Southern 4Q profit tops estimates
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on January 26.) NORFOLK, Va. -- Norfolk Southern Corp. on Wednesday reported record profits for the fourth quarter-- beating Wall Street estimates -- and the year as it benefited from an improving economy that...
Rail worker killed in Terminal Island switching accident
(The following report appeared on the Daily Breeze website on January 27.) TORRANCE, Calif. -- A railroad employee slipped under a train and was killed Wednesday as he worked on Terminal Island, authorities said. The accident occurred about 5:30 p.m. on a Burlington...
Judge orders ban on LIRR strike
(The following story by Joie Tyrrell appeared on the Newsday website on January 27.) NEW YORK -- A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order against Long Island Rail Road engineers Wednesday night, preventing them from going out on a threatened strike....
A list of other U.S. train accidents
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on January 26.) Some recent deadly train accidents in the United States: Jan. 6, 2005: A freight train slams into a parked train in Graniteville, S.C., rupturing a chlorine tank. Nine people are killed by the gas...
Passengers tell of Calif. train derailment
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on January 27.) GLENDALE, Calif. -- Passengers on Metrolink Train 100 heard a terrible rumbling. Then the lights suddenly flickered out, the floor tipped at a dangerous angle, and Tracy West went flying. ``I was...
Survival a matter of chance
(The following story by Erika Hayasaki and Megan Garvey appeared on the Los Angeles Times website on January 27.) LOS ANGELES -- They rode the southbound train in the predawn darkness, some napping, some reading, some chatting with the friends they had made over the...
Rescuers work among carnage
(The following story by Richard Fausset and Jill Leovy appeared on the Los Angeles Times website on January 27.) LOS ANGELES -- Ruben Landa was working next to the tracks outside the Costco warehouse when the steel uprights and walls of the building shuddered from the...
Police tell of a troubled, suicidal man
(The following article by Charlie LeDuff was posted on the New York Times website on January 26.) COMPTON, Calif. -- Until Wednesday, Juan Manuel Alvarez was living the average life of an obscure and troubled man. He had an arrest record for cocaine, a turbulent...
Chain-reaction crash points to wider hazard
(The following story by Brandon Bailey appeared on the San Jose Mercury News website on January 27.) SAN JOSE, Calif. -- State and local authorities say they would like to eliminate the kind of railroad grade crossings that allowed a suicidal man to drive into the...
