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Derailment blocks BNSF tracks
WHITE EARTH, N.D. -- Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad tracks near White Earth are expected to be back in service today after cleanup from a weekend derailment. BNSF spokesman Gus Melonas says nine cars on a freight train derailed Sunday night about three miles...
CP crew escapes injury in derailment
(The following report appeared on television station CHBC’s website on January 17.) SICAMOUS -- A train crew escaped without injury when their train derailed just after midnight Monday on the CP Rail mainline east of Sicamous. Five cars flipped over, spilling their...
Trains derail in two weekend accidents
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on January 18.) MEMPHIS -- A Norfolk Southern train derailment dumped tons of coal into an adjacent street and made a mess of train and vehicle traffic but caused no injuries, officials said. Eleven cars of a...
Prince Rupert seeks federal grant for new container port
(The following story by Brent Jang appeared on the Globe and Mail website on January 17.) TORONTO -- Hard-luck Prince Rupert, eager to revive its depressed economy on the B.C. coast, is asking Ottawa for a $40-million grant to help build a new container port being...
On the right track: Port of Longviews’s industrial rail corridor is open for business
(The following story by Pat Forgey appeared on the Long Beach Press-Telegram website on January 15.) LONGVIEW, Wash. -- The Port of Longview this month is taking deliveries from its first 100-car "unit trains," marking the true completion of one of the area's most...
Coal coming on: Demand likely to increase in 2005
(The following story by Jim Gransbery appeared on The Billings Gazette website on January 16.) BILLINGS, Mont. -- Under the broad grasslands of Eastern Montana and Northeastern Wyoming lie vast, thick seams of a black rock that burns well and hot. And, it burns cheap...
Amtrak and New Jersey Transit delayed by two rail mishaps
(The following article by Sewell Chan was posted on the New York Times website on January 15.) NEW YORK -- A downed electrical wire and a broken track switch caused delays yesterday for thousands of New Jersey Transit and Amtrak passengers trying to get to or leave...
Sinkhole has BNSF, city officials on daily alert
(The following story by Bud Norman appeared on The Wichita Eagle website on January 17.) WICHITA, Kan. -- A sinkhole southeast of Hutchinson has grown to about 115 feet in diameter, and officials are awaiting the results of scientific tests that will determine how...
Flooding damages key rail line
(The following story by Mark Havnes and Michael N. Westley appeared on The Salt Lake Tribune website on January 16.) CALIENTE, Nev. -- As he repaired a signal along one of Union Pacific's main arteries connecting Los Angeles and Salt Lake City, Allen Griffin wondered...
Derailment brings home potential peril of toxic traffic
(The following story by Michael Dresser appeared on the Baltimore Sun website on January 16.) BALTIMORE, Md. -- The Howard Street Tunnel fire that brought rail traffic along the East Coast to a standstill and closed downtown businesses for days more than three years...
