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LIRR worker killed while repairing tracks
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on May 27.) NEW YORK -- A Long Island Rail Road worker was killed while doing track work Wednesday in Brooklyn. The railroad says 30-year-old Peter Osso of Yonkers was pronounced dead at St. Mary's Hospital...
CP Rail continues cleanup of N.Y. oil spill
(Albany television station Capitol News 9 posted the following story by Chris Hamilton on its website on May 26.) ALBANY, N.Y. -- Crews from an environmental cleanup company are continuing to collect 25,000 or so gallons of oil off the western shore of Lake Champlain....
Argonia clean-up continues after BNSF derailment
(The following story appeared on the Wellington Daily News website on May 27.) ARGONIA, Kan. -- Life is slowly returning to normal in Argonia, three days after an accident left the town littered with smashed rail cars. An evacuation was ordered south of the tracks...
Conductor: ‘I wondered if we would tip over’
(The following story by Sally Gray appeared on the Marysville Advocate website on May 27.) MARYSVILLE, Kan. -- When Union Pacific conductor Rob Pinnick, Marysville, was getting ready to go to work Monday evening, the skies were threatening and storms were in the...
CSX train derails, spills grain in Ky.
(Cincinnati television station WLWT posted the following story on its website on May 27.) FALMOUTH, Ky. -- A train derailed in a Tri-State community Wednesday evening, leaving a mess for crews to clean up. The CSX freight train jumped the tracks at about 6 p.m. in...
CWA, SBC agree
(The following report by Carolyn Said appeared on the San Francisco Chronicle website on May 26.) SAN FRANCISCO -- SBC Communications Inc. and the union representing 100,000 of its employees in 13 states reached tentative accord on a contract very early Tuesday...
Bombardier contracts could wind up in court
(The following article by Francois Shalom was posted on the Montreal Gazette website on May 26.) MONTREAL -- Bombardier Inc.'s rail division, it seems, negotiates important contracts twice - once before winning them, and again after delays, cost overruns and a host of...
Glenview boy, 11, killed when hit by Metra train
(The following story by Dave Newbart appeared on the Chicago Sun-Times website on May 26.) CHICAGO -- An 11-year-old Glenview boy died after he was struck Tuesday by a Metra train that witnesses said hit him when he rode his bike around crossing gates, according to...
RailAmerica subsidiary to lease line from CSX
(RailAmerica issued the following news release on May 25.) BOCA RATON, Fla. -- RailAmerica, Inc. today announced that its subsidiary, Central Railroad of Indianapolis, notified the Surface Transportation Board (STB) that it intends to lease 276 miles of railroad from...
CN aiming for $8B in revenues
(The following article by David Finlayson was posted on the Edmonton Journal website on May 26.) EDMONTON -- CN plans to close more shops and cut staff as it continues "wringing" more out of its efficiency plan over the next five years, CEO E. Hunter Harrison said...
