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Transportation fatalities decrease in 2003
(The NTSB issued the following news release on September 3.) WASHINGTON -- Transportation fatalities in the United States decreased in 2003. Preliminary figures released today by the National Transportation Safety Board indicate that 44,888 overall transportation...
Unions mobilize against Bush
(Reuters circulated the following article on September 2.) WASHINGTON -- As President Bush was preparing to accept the Republican presidential nomination on Thursday, the country's labor movement was preparing to try to dump him. With their focus on jobs, health care...
RailPower’s Green Goats champing to go
(The following story by Mark Lowey appeared on the Business Edge website on September 2.) CALGARY -- A Vancouver company that builds environmentally friendly railway locomotives in Calgary is winning substantial funding and praise for its "little engine that can."...
Rail traffic up in August
(The Association of American Railroads issued the following news release on September 2.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. railroads originated 1,364,950 carloads of freight in August 2004, up 1.5 percent (19,770 carloads) over August 2003, the Association of American...
DeLay doesn’t want rail built
(The following story by Mark Evangelista appeared on The Citizen website on September 3.) HOUSTON -- Tom DeLay got off the fence on San Jacinto Rail, not in favor or against the 12.8-mile track from Bayport to Clear Lake, but said that he didn't want it constructed....
Amtrak to end runs through Fostoria, Akron and Youngstown
(The following article by David Patch was posted on the Toledo Blade website on September 3.) TOLEDO, Ohio -- Passenger-train service to Fostoria, Akron, and Youngstown will end March 1, with sleeping cars on the route to be discontinued Nov. 1, Amtrak will announce...
Amtrak cutting 1 of its 3 trains in Pittsburgh
(The following story by Joe Grata appeared on the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette website on September 3.) PITTSBURGH -- At a time when three daily passenger trains serving the region are attracting growing ridership, Amtrak has decided to discontinue at least one of them....
Amtrak to resume train service
(The following article by Peter Dujardin was posted on the Hampton Roads Daily Press website on September 3.) NEWPORT NEWS, Va. -- Four Amtrak trains were canceled among Richmond, Williamsburg and Newport News on Tuesday and Wednesday because of power outages and...
Pooches sniff out bombs on VRE trains
(The following article by Jason Jacks was posted on the Burke Times on September 2.) BURKE, Va. -- The terrorist attacks on four commuter trains in Madrid, Spain, last March left the world's transportation authorities skittish and wary of security on their own train...
GOP convention deters Amtrak riders from upstate
(The Associated Press distributed the following article on September 3.) RENSSELAER, N.Y. -- The Republican National Convention in New York City this week apparently has deterred upstate train riders from traveling downstate. Officials say ridership on the Empire...
