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Alexandria likely Union Tank Car home
(The following story by Chad Calder appeared on The Advocate website on June 23.) BATON ROUGE, La. -- "Project U" is apparently headed for Alexandria. Chicago-based Union Tank Car Co., which Gov. Kathleen Blanco announced last week will build a $100 million facility...
Fla. fast train proponents cite benefits
(The Associated Press circulated the following article by Jackie Hallifax on June 22.) TALLAHASSEE -- A high-speed train will make money for Florida in the long run, proponents said Tuesday as a panel of state analysts begin looking at a proposal to kill the...
Landowners, company settle in train derailment lawsuit
(The Associated Press circulated the following story on June 23.) WILMINGTON, N.C. -- CSX Transportation has settled a lawsuit with Pitt County landowners near the site of a train derailment in 2000 that resulted in a 35,000-gallon chemical spill. The terms of the...
Backers again float plan for Las Vegas-to-Anaheim maglev train
(The Associated Press circulated the following story on June 22.) LAS VEGAS -- Backers of an expensive high-speed train between southern Nevada and Southern California are floating tentative plans for an initial Las Vegas-to-Primm segment. "Funding is the most...
Town ready to sign contract with TxDOT, Union Pacific over US 90A
(The following story by Jamie Mock appeared on the Southwest Sun website on June 21.) FORT BEND, Texas --After five years of meetings, Stafford is close to a finalized tri-party agreement with the Union Pacific Railroad Company and the Texas Department of...
Metra on schedule with expansion plan
(The following article by James Evans was posted on the Chicago Tribune website on June 23.) CHICAGO -- Jeff Berman grabbed a seat on the inaugural Metra commuter train from Buffalo Grove to Chicago when service began on the North Central line in 1996. The longtime...
Garbage truck driver survives collision with KCS train
(The following story by Maggie Borman appeared on The Telegraph website on June 23. Dennis L. Heeren is a member of BLET Division 109 in East St. Louis, Ill.) KANE -- An Alton man whose garbage truck was hit Tuesday by a Kansas City Southern train in Kane apparently...
La. may set record of auto-rail deaths
(The following article by Ed Anderson was posted on the New Orleans Times-Picayune website on June 23.) BATON ROUGE, La. -- After 10 train-vehicle deaths around Memorial Day, Louisiana is set to match or surpass its record of train fatalities, safety experts said...
Construction worker killed by test train
(The following article by Dave Phillips was posted on the Orange Bulletin website on June 23.) EAST HAVEN, Conn. -- A Woodbridge man working on the I-95 construction project on Frontage Road was killed early Wednesday morning when the manlift he was on was hit by a...
Amtrak president says N.C.’s corridor efforts on right track
(The following story by Mark Wineka appeared on the Salisbury Post website on June 22.) SALISBURY, N.C. -- Ask the president of Amtrak what brings him to Salisbury, and you get the obvious answer. A train. Well, that's partly true. David Gunn, Amtrak president and...
