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Short-line railway gets ag products around state
(The following story by Chuck Lentz appeared on the Grand Island Independent website on August 30.) GRAND ISLAND, Neb. -- Leaving the highway between Grand Island and Fremont would in many places take a traveler to the tracks of the Nebraska Central Railroad, a...
CSX forms partnership with OmniTRAX
(CSX and OmniTRAX issued the following news release on August 27.) DENVER -- OmniTRAX, one of North America's leading transportation services companies, announced today its partnership with CSX Transportation (CSXT), a business unit of CSX Corporation (NYSE:CSX), to...
Rockefeller urges CSX to reconsider leasing rail
(The Associated Press circulated the following story on August 28.) CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Sen. Jay Rockefeller is appealing to CSX Transportation to reconsider plans to lease tracks to smaller railroads in the state. CSX has received bids from nine "short-line"...
29 illegal migrants found in UP boxcar
(El Paso television station KFoxTV posted the following story on its website on August 29.) EL PASO -- Union Pacific Police made a shocking discovery in a railroad car Sunday. Twenty-nine undocumented Mexican migrants including two children were found in a Union...
Mich. Amtrak subsidy again in peril
(The following story by David Jesse appeared on the Times Herald website on August 29.) PORT HURON, Mich. -- With a flurry of letters and phone calls last week, state legislators are preparing for the latest battle in the fight over a state subsidy for Amtrak. At...
N.C. aiming to boost, improve rail service
(The Associated Press circulated the following story on August 30.) RALEIGH -- Railway improvements worth $25 million over the past three years have allowed for quicker train trips between the state's two most populous cities and strengthened the backbone of the...
Two men arrested in N.Y. bomb plot
(The following story by Steve Miller appeared on the Washington Times website on August 29.) NEW YORK -- Two men were arrested Friday night, a little more than two days before the start of the Republican National Convention, accused of conspiring to bomb a subway...
Massive effort to secure trains, subways at convention
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Michael Weissenstein on August 30.) NEW YORK -- Trash cans are welded shut, armed guards are watching rail yards and thousands of cops are patrolling Penn Station. North America’s busiest train station is the...
Va. GOP conventioneers snagged by train delay
(The following story by Jeff E. Schapiro appeared on the Richmond Times-Dispatch website on August 30.) ABOARD AMTRAK TRAIN NO. 194 -- They started the party without us. The train carrying 70 Virginia delegates, campaign operatives and home-state reporters to the...
Newark-New York train service back to normal
(The following report appeared on the Philadelphia Inquirer website on August 30.) NEWARK, N.J. -- Normal train service from Newark to New York's Penn Station resumed at 6 a.m. yesterday after a damaged overhead power wire was repaired, NJ Transit spokesman Dan...
