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Working on the railroad
(The following article by Greg Clary was posted on the White Plains Journal News website on June 16.) PEARL RIVER, N.Y. -- A rather odd-looking train worked its way up the Pascack Valley Line yesterday, made even odder by the fact that it took a day and a half to get...
Officials: Financing for new train cars uncertain
(The following article by Jonathan Lucas was posted on the Stamford Advocate website on June 16.) HARTFORD, Conn. -- A $1 billion plan to replace Metro-North Railroad's New Haven Line fleet will require increased fees, taxes or shifting funds from other transportation...
Opinion: Gas prices could revive railroads
(The following editorial by James Seney was posted on the Cincinnati Post website on June 15. James Seney is executive director of the Ohio Rail Development Commission.) About a decade ago, some in Congress proposed levying a 50-cent per gallon increase in the federal...
Coal market zooms in on mines in Colorado
(The following article by Kirk Johnson was posted on the New York Times website on June 16.) SOMERSET, Colo. -- Jim Cooper's mountain of coal is a prodigious thing to behold. There is enough glistening black carbon here to fill more than 15,000 tractor-trailers, or a...
Man killed by train
(The Associated Press circulated the following story on June 16.) EAST HAVEN, Conn. -- A construction worker was killed early Wednesday when his crane was hit by a train that was testing the tracks, Amtrak said. The accident occurred about 3:45 a.m. on the tracks...
Officials practice ‘what-if’ incident involving nuclear fuel
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by John Milburn on June 16.) TOPEKA, Kan. -- Two people driving a stolen 2 1/2-ton truck sideswipe a sedan stopped at a railroad crossing, then strike a Union Pacific train carrying a container of spent nuclear fuel...
Penn Station cans are latest in anti-terror
(The following article by Joshua Robin was posted on Newsday.com on June 15.) NEW YORK -- To protect Penn Station from a terrorist's bomb, Amtrak has installed blast-resistant trash cans throughout the sprawling terminal, officials said. The cans, which each cost up...
Train derails near downtown Salem, Ore.
(The following article by Abe Estimada was posted on kgw.com on June 15.) SALEM, Ore. -- A train derailment near downtown Salem briefly snarled traffic on Tuesday afternoon as crews tried to get the cars underway again. Four cars from the train derailed and were on...
Crews clean up tracks after BNSF derailment
(The following report appeared on the Brenham Banner-Press website on June 15.) BRENHAM, Texas -- Crews were continuing to work this morning on a section of railroad tracks south of Brenham where seven cars derailed Monday afternoon. The cause of the derailment, which...
Deputy gives BNSF train $5,000 parking ticket
(The following report appeared on the Aurora, Ill., Beacon News website on June 15.) BIG ROCK, Ill. -- A $5,000 parking ticket. That is, in essence, what a Kane County deputy wrote to the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad for "parking" one of its trains for more...
