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Delays in service cost Union Pacific millions
(The following article by Dan Piller was posted on the Fort Worth Star-Telegram website on July 23.) FORT WORTH -- Hobbled by shortages of train crews and locomotives, Union Pacific Corp. reported a second-quarter profit of $158 million, or 60 cents per share. A year...
FRA says it is addressing fatal crashes
(The following article by Walt Bogdanich and Jenny Nordberg was posted on the New York Times website on July 23.) NEW YORK -- The federal agency that oversees railroad safety says it is instituting new procedures to identify railroads that fail to report fatal...
MBTA police begin screening of riders’ bags
(The following article by Anthony Flint was posted on the Boston Globe website on July 23.) BOSTON -- The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority became the first mass transit system in the country yesterday to inspect the bags of passengers as teams of T police...
By sea or rail, as well as air, security loopholes linger
(The following article by Ron Marsico was posted on the Newark Star-Ledger website on July 23.) NEWARK, N.J. -- Since Sept. 11, 2001, the federal government has spent billions to address many of the security failures listed in the 9/11 commission's report, but experts...
Religious message halts train
(The following article by Jason George was posted on the New York Times website on July 22.) NEWARK, N.J. -- For 90 minutes on Thursday morning, passengers aboard an Amtrak train headed to New York and Boston were questioned and videotaped as the seven cars were...
Threatening note found on Amtrak train
(The Associated Press distributed the following article on July 22.) NEWARK, N.J. -- A threatening note found aboard a Washington-to-New York Amtrak train prompted police to detain it for an hour and a half Thursday morning while they checked all passengers for...
President Hahs on national television
CLEVELAND, July 23 -- BLET National President Don M. Hahs appeared on national television to discuss railroad security yesterday, granting a brief interview on the Fox News Channel show "Your World with Cavuto." President Hahs discussed passenger and freight rail...
Suspicious note halts Amtrak train in New Jersey
(Reuters circulated the following story on July 22.) NEW YORK -- A Boston-bound Amtrak train was stopped and searched by police in Newark, New Jersey, on Thursday because of a suspicious note, a spokeswoman said. Authorities have been on higher alert for suspicious...
Riders stalled after train in Westchester snags wires
(The following article by James Barron was posted on the New York Times website on July 22.) NEW YORK -- An empty Metro-North Railroad train on the way to its first stop of the morning pulled down the overhead power lines yesterday in New Rochelle, N.Y., hobbling the...
‘Frustrated’ officials grill Amtrak chief
(The following article by Bernard Harris was posted on the Lancaster New Era website on July 21.) LANCASTER COUNTY, PA -- David Gunn’s visit to Lancaster on Tuesday started out nice. It didn’t stay that way.Initially, Amtrak’s chief operations officer toured the city...
