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Families of killed boys awarded $5 million after CSX train wreck
(The Associated Press circulated the following story on June 19.) BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. -- A Hancock County jury deliberated about three hours before awarding $5 million to the families of two boys killed in August 1999 when a CSX train hit a car in which they were...
Station plans hampered by dispute
(The following story by Peter Goonan appeared on The Republican website on June 21.) SPRINGFIELD, Mass. -- In just five years, the cost estimate for the Union Station redevelopment project has more than doubled and the timetable for construction has been marked by...
Amtrak’s Mich. ridership, revenues up
(The following story by Edward Hoogterp appeared on the Flint Journal website on June 20.) LANSING, Mich. -- One year after the state solved a budget problem that threatened to eliminate two of Michigan's three Amtrak passenger trains, revenue and passenger counts are...
Higher fares, more tardy trains upset some VRE users
(The following article by Michelle Boorstein was posted on the Washington Post on June 20.) WASHINGTON -- For people in the Fredericksburg area, fare increases and heat-related delays on the Virginia Railway Express commuter train have extra bite. That's because the...
Railroad bottleneck
(The following story by Chip Jones appeared on the Times-Dispatch website on June 21.) RICHMOND, Va. -- Karen Rae knows all about the snail's pace of passenger trains rolling into Richmond's Main Street Station. When her daughter rode Amtrak from Washington recently,...
Acca Yard started on a track to prominence in late 1800s
(The following story by Chip Jones appeared on the Richmond Times-Dispatch website on June 21.) RICHMOND, Va. -- Acca Yard, site of so much modern train congestion, used to house racehorses. Preston Belvin, a Richmond furniture manufacturer in the 1880s, once owned...
UP trains to up speeds through Corsicana
(The following story appeared on the Corsicana Daily Sun website on June 19.) CORSICANA, Texas -- Union Pacific Railroad will begin on July 1 to increase the speed of its trains to 50 mph on the rail line operating through Corsicana. Train speeds will be increased...
Looking back on a ‘miracle’
(The following story by Stephanie Chavez appeared on the Los Angeles Times website on June 20.)0 LOS ANGELES -- As if on cue, like some haunting reminder of exactly 11:58 a.m. nearly one year ago, the deep baritone rumble of a Union Pacific freight train began bearing...
California train-related injuries and deaths on the rise
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on June 21.) LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- The number of people killed or wounded by trains statewide climbed 15 percent over the last three years largely because of population growth, new development and increased rail...
Railroad ties
(The following story by Chip Jones appeared on the Times-Dispatch website on June 21. A.D. "Doug" Riddell is a member of BLET Division 14 in Washington, D.C.) RICHMOND, Va. -- Even as a boy, Ryan Riddell looked as if he were in charge when he boarded Amtrak trains....
