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SEPTA’s new call boxes still don’t work
(The following story by Jim Nolan appeared on the Philadelphia Daily News website on June 21.) PHILADELPHIA -- In May 2003, SEPTA officials promised that their high-tech, $3.9 million passenger-emergency system - designed to replace aging and unreliable subway call...
Deborah Hersman becomes NTSB member
(The NTSB issued the following news release on June 21.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Deborah Hersman was sworn in today as a Member of the National Transportation Safety Board. Before joining the Board, Member Hersman was a senior professional staff member of the U.S....
More aboard Michigan’s three passenger train routes
(The Associated Press circulated the following story on June 22.) LANSING, Mich. -- More people are riding Amtrak's three Michigan passenger train routes one year after the state solved a budget problem that threatened to eliminate two of them. Ridership is up 8.8...
Federal terror alerts cost state $12M
(The following story by Jonathan Schuppe of Newhouse News Service appeared on the New Jersey Journal website on June 21.) JERSEY CITY, N.J. -- New Jersey and its municipalities spent more than $12 million responding to the last three federal terror alerts, most of it...
Three hurt in Bates County train collision
(Kansas City television station KMBC posted the following article on its website on June 21.) ADRIAN, Mo. -- Three engineers were hurt after a train accident in Bates County late Sunday night. Authorities said that a train loaded with coal slammed into four grain cars...
Railroad security shortchanged, Engel says
(The following story by Greg Clary appeared on the Journal News website on June 22.) SUFFERN, N.Y. -- The security of the nation's rail systems is being shortchanged by federal officials so concerned about air safety that they don't give ground transportation a high...
NY elected officials say money needed for railway security
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Deepti Hajela on June 21.) NEW YORK -- The federal government needs to put more money into homeland security, and more of that needs to go toward the nation's rail and transit systems, elected officials and...
Amtrak riders get Lewis and Clark lesson
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Heather Hollingsworth on June 19.) ABOARD THE ANN RUTLEDGE, Mo. -- Two centuries ago members of the Lewis and Clark expedition coated themselves in grease to keep off the swarms of mosquitoes as they pulled a...
Rebuilding railway yards, by bits and bytes
(The following article by Greg Gormick was posted on the Toronto Star website on June 21.) TORONTO -- When a Canadian Pacific Railway triple-deck flat car rolled through a banner of helium-filled balloons on June 16, 1964, it signalled the opening of the company's $15...
Machinist honors U.P. workers in the military
(The following story by Kristina Jergensen appeared on The North Platte Telegraph website on June 20.) NORTH PLATTE, Neb. -- This Memorial Day, a Union Pacific Railroad machinist at North Platte's Bailey Yard helped provide a special honor for families of U.P. workers...
