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Labor presses case against privatizing Social Security
(The following article by Ben White was posted on the Washington Post website on January 19.) NEW YORK -- The AFL-CIO on Tuesday stepped up its opposition to private Social Security accounts, accusing Wall Street's main trade group, the Securities Industry...
Suddenly, a suspicious hobby
(The following article by Virginia Groark was posted on the Chicago Tribune website on January 19.) CHICAGO -- With a tripod in one man's hand and cameras slung around the other's neck, two Homewood men arrived at a Metra station in Morton Grove earlier this month to...
Amtrak launches airport link
(The following article by Larry Sandler was posted on the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel website on January 18.) MILWAUKEE, Wisc. -- Wisconsin opened a new train-to-plane link Tuesday with the dedication of an Amtrak station at Mitchell International Airport. Four trains...
Amtrak back on track in Tampa
(The following article by Ted Jackovics was posted on the Tampa Tribune website on January 19.) TAMPA, Fla. -- Tax consultant Robert Becker clearly uses a different financial rationale for making travel plans than he does in his High Bridge, N.J., business. Becker,...
Agencies say Toledo area rail-crash safeguards in place
(The following article by David Patch was posted on the Toledo Blade website on January 19.) TOLEDO, Ohio -- For more than four decades, Shirley Carpenter has watched the trains rumble past her home on Airline Avenue in South Toledo, maybe 100 feet from her front...
Amtrak to resume service west of Denver next week
(The Associated Press distributed the following article on January 18.) SALT LAKE CITY -- Amtrak's California Zephyr will resume its service west of Denver this month, the company announced Tuesday. Heavy storms in the Rocky and Sierra mountain ranges caused the...
Union Pacific to resume limited service on lines
(The following article by James F. Peltz was posted on the Los Angeles Times website on January 19.) LOS ANGELES -- Union Pacific Corp. said Tuesday that it planned to resume limited outbound rail service Monday on its last two lines from Southern California that had...
Union Pacific targets openings for storm-damaged lines
(Union Pacific issued the following news release on January 18.) OMAHA, Neb. -- Union Pacific Railroad expects to reopen its California "Coast Line" and a rugged desert canyon line northeast of Las Vegas, Nev., for partial service as soon as Jan. 24. The two line...
CP locomotives derail in Minn.
(The Crookston Daily Times posted the following article by Mike Christopherson on its website on January 18.) CROOKSTON, Minn. -- No one was injured and no hazardous spills or property damage were reported in the wake of a train derailment in Gully Sunday night,...
Tracks set to reopen after derailment in North Dakota
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on January 18.) WHITE EARTH, N.D. -- Crews have been repairing a stretch of track damaged when nine cars of a Burlington Northern and Santa Fe freight train derailed over the weekend. The train was en route from...
