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An alternative track to recovery keeps injured Amtrak workers active in volunteer programs
(Amtrak issued the following news release on September 22.) CHEVY CHASE, Md. -- It is not often that employers are proud to boast of successful job placements outside their company. For Amtrak, such placements are becoming standard practice as part of its innovative...
Attorneys sift through claims in Eunice derailment case
(The following story by Richard Burgess appeared on The Advertiser website on September 22.) LAFAYETTE, La. -- Attorneys on Tuesday began weeding through nearly 500 questionable claims for a share of the $65 million settlement in a May 2000 train derailment that...
Train-truck crash could cost millions
(The following article by Caren Halbfinger was posted on the White Plains Journal News website on September 22.) BEDFORD HILLS, N.Y. -- Exit 38 of the Saw Mill River Parkway and an adjacent railroad crossing were expected to reopen this morning, two days after a...
Railroad employee killed in Mich.
(The following article by Art Aisner was posted on the Ann Arbor News website on September 21.) SALINE, Mich. -- A railroad employee was killed in Saline on Monday when he was pinned between an engine and a rail car near the Visteon plant. Charles Hatch Jr., 46, of...
Derailment sets off blaze in rail yard
(The following report appeared on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch website on September 21.) ST. LOUIS, Mo. -- Four train cars went off the tracks at an East St. Louis area rail yard about 3:30 a.m. Tuesday, setting fire to a spilled chemical and possibly sickening about...
Work in Progress
(The AFL-CIO issued the following on September 20.) FLOC WINS HISTORIC AGREEMENT—In a historic win for migrant farm workers and their families, the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) on Sept. 16 signed an agreement with the North Carolina Growers Association...
Expert faults court’s ruling about waste from reactors
(The following article by Matthew L. Wald was posted on the New York Times website on September 20.) WASHINGTON -- The court that derailed the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in July, concluding that the government had not set strict enough rules on...
Ivan may have impact on transportation
(The Associated Press circulated the following article by David Royse on September 21.) PENSACOLA, Fla. -- Ordinarily, trucker Bruce Shelby would take Interstate 10 to get across the Florida Panhandle. But with Hurricane Ivan bringing down an interstate bridge, that...
Accidents at crossings decrease
(The following article by Caren Halbfinger was posted on the White Plains Journal News website on September 21.) WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- Improved safety measures have reduced the number of accidents between trains and other vehicles at railroad crossings over the past...
29 injured as train hits truck
(The following article by Caren Halbfinger and Sean Gorman was posted on the White Plains Journal News website on September 21.) BEDFORD HILLS, N.Y. -- Twenty-nine Metro-North Railroad riders were injured yesterday morning when their train slammed into a truck stuck...
