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Officers ride the rails to reduce auto-train accidents
(The following article by Ildefonso Ortiz was posted on the Brownsville Herald website on September 24.) BROWNSVILLE, Texas -- Rather than pull over vehicles trying to beat an oncoming train on his cruiser, Brownsville Police Sgt. Ray Rosas kept a watchful eye on...
New Jersey Transit will consider occupying new station in Midtown
(The following article by Michael Luo was posted on the New York Times website on September 24.) NEW YORK -- The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey awarded $10 million to New Jersey Transit yesterday to study how it might extend its current platforms in...
Amtrak asks court’s agreement that state contract is done
(The Associated Press circulated the following article by September 24.) ALBANY, N.Y. -- The state's contract with Amtrak for high-speed rail service should be declared legally derailed. That's according to legal papers Amtrak filed yesterday in federal court, where...
Amtrak declares high-speed rail a dead issue
(The following article by Cathy Woodruff was posted on the Albany Times-Union website on September 24.) ALBANY, N.Y. -- A $185 million high-speed rail contract between Amtrak and the state should be declared legally dead, the railroad contends in legal papers filed...
Company inspected CSX line hours before derailment of 30 cars
(The following article by Chip Jones was posted on the Times-Dispatch website on September 24.) RICHMOND, Va. -- A CSX Corp. inspector checked a riverside rail line in Richmond's West End last Saturday hours before 30 coal cars slid off the tracks between the James...
Freight trains collide; derailment blocks streets
(The following article by Jim Hook was posted on the Chicago Daily Southtown on September 24.) CHICAGO -- Two Canadian National freight trains collided early Thursday in a rail yard in Posen, causing a derailment that temporarily closed two village side streets. No...
Train derails in S.C.
(The following article was posted on the CarolinaChannel.com website on September 24.) PACOLET, S.C. -- Hazmat teams are working to contain 3,000 gallons of diesel fuel after a train derailment in Spartanburg County Friday morning. Norfolk Southern officials said the...
Deaths at work rise slightly in 2003
(The Associated Press circulated the following article by Leigh Strope on September 23.) WASHINGTON -- Workplace fatalities in the United States rose slightly to 5,559 last year, with the highest number of deaths in the construction and transportation industries....
RailPower Technologies sells three Green Goat locomotives for U.S. army bases
(The Canadian Press circulated the following article on September 23.) VANCOUVER -- RailPower Technologies Corp. says its U.S. subsidiary has sold three Green Goat switcher locomotives to the U.S. Transportation Department for use in army bases. Financial details were...
Backtracking on Calif. bullet train route
(The following article by Sean Holstege was posted on the Oakland Tribune website on September 23.) OAKLAND, Calif. -- The agency planning a $37 billion high-speed rail network to link downtown San Francisco and Los Angeles is rethinking how those trains should enter...
