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CSX says derailment caused by shift in boxcar’s load
(The following story by Julie E. Greene appeared on the Hagerstown Morning Herald website on July 6.) HAGERSTOWN, Md. -- A freight train derailment that closed a rail line and a stretch of Eastern Boulevard for more than 24 hours happened when the load of paper in one...
Man arrested after Amtrak bomb scare
(The following report appeared at Channel3000.com on July 7.) PORTAGE, Wis. -- One person is in custody after a bomb scare on an Amtrak train in Portage. Twenty-five-year-old Shaun Welty of Washington state was arrested for carrying a concealed weapon. For about six...
Train travelers stranded in Wisc. by scare
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on July 6.) PORTAGE, Wis. -- Authorities investigated a series of bomb threats directed at an Amtrak train Tuesday, stranding nearly 300 passengers, some of whom had fireworks in their luggage. The train, running...
National Labor College holds sixth commencement
(The National Labor College issued the following news release on July 1.) SILVER SPRING, Md. -- John J. Sweeney, President of the AFL-CIO and Chair of the National Labor College’s Board of Trustees, and Dr. Susan J. Schurman, President of the College, presented...
Got the time? At Grand Central, it has never been that simple
(The following article by Michael Luo was posted on the New York Times website on July 6.) NEW YORK -- For years, they have maddened riders. Above information booths, on walls and on platforms, there they are — a babel of different times on different clocks in a place...
Amtrak plans to put Wash. link on fast track for improvements
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on July 4.) TACOMA, Wash. -- Amtrak officials have placed the Seattle/Tacoma-Eugene rail link high on their list of priorities in a new five-year plan that calls for $1.98 billion in federal funding for nationwide...
Audit rips LIRR on environment
(The following article by Joie Tyrrell was posted on Newsday.com on July 4.) NEW YORK -- The Long Island Rail Road failed to properly inspect tanks holding thousands of gallons of oil on properties in Suffolk and Queens, in what an independent state audit described as...
Clogged toilets are rail’s latest problem
(The following article by Joie Tyrrell was posted on Newsday.com on July 5.) NEW YORK -- First the seats, now the toilets. Starting this week, the Long Island Rail Road will begin modifying the bathrooms on its new M-7 fleet because the toilets clog, leaving some...
Hoglander named NMB Chairman
(The NMB issued the following news release on July 1.) WASHINGTON -- The National Mediation Board (NMB) is pleased to announce that Harry R. Hoglander has been named Chairman of the National Mediation Board, effective July 1, 2004. Chairman Hoglander was sworn in as a...
The time is right to be working on the railroad
(The following article by Sherry Anne Rubiano was posted on the Indianapolis Star website on July 4.) INDIANAPOLIS -- Marcos Zavala drives a screeching locomotive up and down a track in Downtown Indianapolis by flipping a few switches on a black remote control box...
