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Harrison County, Miss., third in nation in railroad fatalities
(The following report by Reggie Beehner appeared on the Sun Herald website on July 11.) BILOXI, Miss. -- A CSX train travels between Caillavet Street and Porter Avenue in Biloxi across four crossings the Mississippi Department of Transportation and CSX would like to...
Study: Moving Denver’s freight rail lines east would pay off
(The following article by Jeffrey Leib was posted on the Denver Post website on July 11.) DENVER -- It will cost $1.2 billion to move much of the freight rail traffic that crawls through central Denver to a faster route on the plains east of the metro area, according...
CSX abandons plan to close Ohio sorting yard
(The following story by David Patch appeared on the Toledo Blade website on July 10.) TOLEDO, Ohio -- CSX Transportation Corp.'s attempt at closing one of its two Lake Township freight-car sorting yards has ended - at least for the time being. Last week, the railroad...
Colorado area on track for most derailments, damage
(The following article by Mike Wiggins was posted on the Daily Sentinel website on July 11.) GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. -- On most days, residents who live on the edge of a cliff overlooking the Gunnison River on Orchard Mesa can distinctly hear the clickety-clack of...
Trucking company sues BNSF in dispute over sharing revenue
(Bloomberg News circulated the following article by Rip Watson on July 10.) BENTON COUNTY, Ark. -- J.B. Hunt Transport Services, the No. 2 U.S. trucker, sued Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. in a dispute over sharing revenue from a shipping agreement accounting for...
Part 2 of 2: A crossing crash unreported and a family broken by grief
(The following article by Walt Bogdanich was posted on the New York Times website on July 12.) DECHERD, Tenn. -- In those first raw days after his 17-year-old daughter died, Norman Feaster couldn't stop thinking about how easily she might have been saved: If only...
Part 1 of 2: In deaths at rail crossings, missing evidence and silence
(The following article by Walt Bogdanich was posted on the New York Times website on July 11.) NEW YORK -- At 5:45 p.m., with the autumn sun dipping toward the horizon, Blas Lopez, a father of four young children, drove his truck loaded with potatoes bound for market...
Man charged with threat that stopped Amtrak train
(The Associated Press circulated the following story on July 9.) CHICAGO -- Federal agents have charged a 35-year-old Alaska man with making bomb threats that caused an Amtrak train to be evacuated earlier this week. Michael David Conwill of Anchorage, was scheduled...
Fear of election-year terror on the rails
(The following article by Thomas Frank was posted on Newsday.com on July 12.) WASHINGTON -- Security planners for the upcoming political conventions are highly concerned about a train bombing and are taking unprecedented steps to safeguard subway and commuter lines in...
FBI makes arrest in Amtrak bomb scare
(Madison, Wisc. television station WISC-TV posted the following article on its website on July 9.) MADISON, Wisc. -- News 3 has learned that the FBI has arrested a suspect in this week's Amtrak bomb scare near Portage. Columbia County investigators say the suspect was...
