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Expect a ticket for trying to beat train
(The following story by Adam Smeltz appeared on The Wichita Eagle website on June 8.) WICHITA, Kan. -- The driver in the Chevrolet El Camino just wasn't paying attention, he told Wichita police, when he drove through a crossing arm and into a train's path near K-15...
Tiny railroad seeks rental deal with CSX
(The following story by Chip Jones appeared on the Richmond Times-Dispatch website on June 8.) RICHMOND, Va. -- In a railroad deal of David-and-Goliath proportions, tiny Buckingham Branch Railroad will pay CSX Corp. $140,000 a year to lease nearly 200 miles of...
High praise, heavy loads for swift new commuter trains
(The following article by Michael Cabanatuan was posted on the San Francisco Chronicle website on June 8.) SAN FRANCISCO -- Caltrain's Baby Bullet hit its mark Monday morning, shooting five trains filled with commuters up and down the Peninsula between San Jose and...
Two-week halt in rail traffic expected
(The following story by Laurie Phillips appeared on The Tribune website on June 8.) SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. -- Fire crews are expecting to have the 7,500-acre fire blazing near Gaviota fully surrounded by Thursday night, but they do not yet know when it will be...
Supreme Court fails working families, sets path for border to open to unsafe trucks
(The International Brotherhood of Teamsters issued the following news release on June 7.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The United States Supreme Court today set back efforts by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Union and its allies to keep unsafe, unregulated Mexican...
Mass transit system seeks federal help
(The following article by Chuck McGinness was posted on the Palm Beach Post website on June 8.) MIAMI -- The nation's mass transit system does not need a wake-up call like the deadly rail bombing in Spain to bolster security. It needs federal help to make improvements...
MBTA to check packages, bags at random
(The following article by Raphael Lewis was posted on the Boston Globe website on June 8.) BOSTON -- Next month, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority will become the first transit agency in the nation to institute a permanent policy of randomly inspecting...
MBTA to begin searches
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on June 8.) BOSTON -- Transit police will begin randomly stopping riders on Boston's subways and commuter trains next month to search their bags and packages, a procedure transportation officials say was largely...
Armed Amtrak rider is arrested
(The following report by Kim Steele appeared on the Gary Post-Tribune website on June 8.) CHESTERTON, Ind. -- An Amtrak passenger’s complaint about another passenger carrying a weapon led to the arrest of an Elkhart man Saturday after police stopped the train at 8th...
BNSF cars transporting chemical derail in Vancouver neighborhood
(The following story by Holley Gilbert appeared on the Portland Oregonian website on June 8.) VANCOUVER, Wash. -- Three train cars loaded with a highly flammable chemical overturned Monday in a downtown Vancouver residential and industrial neighborhood, spilling about...
