BLET News
No Results Found
The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.
Daily Headlines
TSA to test new security technology
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on May 4.) WASHINGTON -- Amtrak and commuter rail passengers at one suburban station will have to walk through an explosives detection machine and have their bags screened in a new security experiment designed to...
CPR links broken wheel, 2 deaths
(The following story by James Rusk appeared on the Globe and Mail website on May 1.) TORONTO -- A tragic chain of events that caused a fatal train derailment in Whitby was sparked by a broken wheel, Neal Foot, senior vice-president of operations for Canadian Pacific...
Shots fired at locomotive in N.J.
(The following article was posted on WNBC.com on May 3.) NEW YORK -- Bullets pierced the locomotive of a freight train in Newark, N.J., Monday night, NewsChannel 4 reported. Investigators said it was a CSX train headed to the Albany area. Authorities said no one was...
Eighteen cars derail in Plano
(The Associated Press distributed the following article on May 3.) PLANO, Texas -- Cleanup continues in Plano after 18 cars of a Kansas City Southern freight train derailed. No injuries were reported in yesterday's accident. A Kansas City Southern statement says five...
Derailed train had deadly load
(The following article by Lisa Sandberg was posted on the San Antonio Express-News website on May 4.) SAN ANTONIO -- A freight train derailment early Monday created a jumbled mess of overturned boxcars that left three men slightly injured and a 5,600-gallon diesel...
CSX Chairman calls Conrail Transaction a success: Calls on STB to end oversight
(CSX issued the following news release on May 3.) WASHINGTON -- The Conrail acquisition is a continuing success and the Surface Transportation Board's (STB) five-year oversight has achieved its goals, said Michael Ward, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer...
AFL-CIO Union-Industries Show displays ‘America at Its Best’ for 300,000 in St. Louis
(The AFL-CIO issued the following news release on April 30.) ST. LOUIS -- More than 300,000 visitors saw "America at Its Best," courtesy of the annual AFL-CIO Union-Industries Show at the America's Center in St. Louis, April 23-26. The show featured the latest in...
Opinion: Maglev to Dulles
(The following editorial by Kevin C. Coates was posted on the Washington Post website on May 2.) Transit projects don't come cheap, but a proposal such as the dual-track 22-mile extension of Metro is no value at $4 billion-plus, especially when a non-rush-hour Metro...
Massive steam locomotive stirs crowds, memories one town at a time
(The following article by Tom Parsons was circulated by the Associated Press on May 2.) CHICAGO -- When Steve Lee drives by, cattle stampede, deer run for their lives, fish jump from the water, children grin and gape and grown-ups wave. It's not the force of Lee's...
Squirrel puts brakes on train service
(The following article by Caren Halbfinger was posted on the White Plains Journal News website on May 1.) WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- A squirrel's high-wire act gone awry was to blame for making 25,000 commuters late to work yesterday. The unfortunate creature closed a...
