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O. Winston Link Museum marks historic milestone
(The O. Winston Link Museum issued the following news release on November 29.) ROANOKE, Va., -- On a cold January night 50 years ago, free-lance photographer O. Winston Link drove to a Norfolk and Western Railway station in Waynesboro, Va., hoping to capture a passing...
New railroad museum planned in Great Falls
(The Associated Press circulated the following story on December 30.) GREAT FALLS, Mont. -- A building at the fairgrounds here will be devoted entirely to a new railroad museum, featuring a train layout that a late Cascade rancher built over a span of 50 years....
Railroad plan spurs worries
(The following story by Margie Fishman appeared on the News & Observer website on December 30.) DURHAM, N.C. -- From ironing out the zigzag pattern of downtown streets to rolling out the welcome mat to developers south of the train tracks, city leaders and tourism...
Montana legislature will face grain shipping woes, other railroad issues
(The following story by Karen Ogden appeared on the Great Falls Tribune website on December 30.) GREAT FALLS, Mont. -- If the state of Montana were a Monopoly game, one player — the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway — would own almost all the railroad cards. BNSF...
2003 CPR derailment cause finally released
(The following story by Sarah Bissonette appeared on the Parry Sound North Star website on December 29.) SHAWANAGA FIRST NATION -- On February 13, 2003 at 8:30 a.m., 21 Canadian Pacific Rail cars left the tracks, near the Shebeshekong Road Crossing here. The...
SEPTA bailout may not buy much time
(The following story by Dwayne Campbell appeared on the Philadelphia Inquirer website on December 30.) PHILADELPHIA -- Unless state legislators come up with a plan in January to ease SEPTA's budget woes, riders of the transit system may get little more than a...
Police cite driver in car-Metra wreck
(The following report appeared on the Chicago Tribune website on December 30.) CHICAGO -- A Chicago woman whose car became stuck on railroad tracks in Riverside, where it was hit by a commuter train, has been cited for making an improper turn and for improper lane...
Questions raised on signals at rail crossings
(The following story by Walt Bogdanich appeared on the New York Times website on December 30.) NEW YORK -- It was late afternoon on July 14, 2002, when Amtrak train No. 391 pulled out of Union Station in Chicago, bound for Southern Illinois. Several hours later, the...
CN union steward fired after finding spy camera
(The Canadian Press circulated the following story on December 24.) WINNIPEG -- The Canadian National Railway Co. employee who uncovered the hidden surveillance cameras at a CN maintenance shop last month has been fired. A union official said Les Lilley, a 34-year...
Norfolk Southern makes a U-turn
(The following story appeared on the Daily Press website on December 26.) HAMPTON ROADS, Va. -- In January 2000, much of the world was breathing a sigh of relief that the global fuss over the "Y2K" crisis was over. But there was still crisis in the offices at Norfolk...
