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Train derails, spills beer in Va.
(The following story by Samantha Sieber appeared on the Bristol Herald Courier website on November 12.) CHILHOWIE, Va. -- The distinct smell of beer still hung in the air Thursday after a train hauling it derailed the night before. Fourteen cars in an 83-car Norfolk...
BNSF train car derails
(The following article by Kelli Phillips was posted on the Contra Costa County Times website on November 12.) RICHMOND, Calif. -- No one was injured Thursday afternoon when a single freight train car derailed near the Point Pinole Regional Shoreline in Richmond....
Texas Rep. Charles Gonzalez’s letter to FRA
(The following text of Rep. Charlie Gonzalez's Nov. 10 letter to Betty Monro, acting administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration, regarding a Union Pacific waiver request, appeared on the San Antonio Express-News website on November 10.) Dear Ms. Monro, It...
Buy Union Holiday E-card to send to family and friends
(AFL-CIO Union Label & Service Trades Dept. issued the following on November 10.) Free holiday e-cards with a "Buy Union" theme & music for Christmas, Hannukah and Kwanzaa are available at http://www.shopunionmade.org/press.phtml Select a holiday: an automatic...
Santa Claus making his way to Appalachia for 62nd running of the Santa Special
(CSX issued the following news release on November 10.) KINGSPORT, Tenn. -- Santa Claus is delegating his North Pole duties to a team of elves so that he may make his annual railroad trip through Appalachia. On Saturday, Nov. 20, the jolly old elf will launch...
On November 11, Canadian Pacific honors Canadian and American military veterans
(Canadian Pacific Railway issued the following news release on November 10.) CALGARY -- Canadian Pacific Railway, Canada's first transcontinental railway, will pay tribute to those who served Canada and the United States to preserve freedom in both countries. CPR...
Newcomers reinvent Denver with an unlikely idea: trains
(The New York Times posted the following article by Kirk Johnson on its website on November 10.) LAKEWOOD, Colo. -- Mass transit systems get tougher to build as cities age and grow, planners say. But as the Denver metropolitan area begins work on one of the most...
No fare rise, commuters tell M.T.A.
(The following article by Jennifer Medina was posted on the New York Times website on November 10.) WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- A handful of commuters showed up at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority public hearing here on Wednesday to tell the agency that no fare...
So. Calif. city mulls maglev effort
(The following story by Eugene Tong appeared on the Los Angeles Daily News website on November 11.) SANTA CLARITA, Calif. -- The City Council is considering joining a a 13-city group working to build a high-speed railway that could connect Palmdale with Orange County...
New technology puts ODU’s maglev in line for test runs
(The following story by Debbie Messina appeared on The Virginian-Pilot website on November 11.) NORFOLK, Va. -- Laboratory tests of technology designed to fix Old Dominion University’s troubled maglev train have been successful enough to justify trials with the...
