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UP slowed by shortage of workers
(The Fort Worth Star Telegram posted the following article by Dan Piller on its website on April 1.) FORT WORTH, Texas -- Union Pacific Railroad acknowledged Wednesday that a shortage of train crews has caused congestion in its yards and lines in Houston and Los...
GOP subway lockdown looms in NY
(The following story by Thomas M. DeFrank and Greg Gittrich appeared on the New York Daily News website on April 1.) NEW YORK -- New York may stop in its tracks the night President Bush accepts his party's nomination in Madison Square Garden. While Bush is in the...
Are America’s trains safe?
(The following report by Bob Simon of 60 Minutes II appeared at CBS.com on April 1.) NEW YORK -- Since the Sept. 11 attacks, there have been dozens of plots to blow up trains or subways in major cities around the world. But Americans didn’t really pay attention until...
Peril under the rivers
(Newsday posted the following article on its website on April 1.) NEW YORK -- With the nation at war with al-Qaida, the busy warren of tunnels and tracks that connects Penn Station to Queens and New Jersey is a security nightmare. Post-9/11, officials have improved...
NS train grazes school bus in Pennsylvania
(The Associated Press circulated the following story on March 31.) BEAVER FALLS, Pa. -- A school bus was grazed by a freight train today but no one was injured because the driver was able to get all the students off the bus after it stopped running at a railroad...
South Korea launches high-speed train
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on March 30.) SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea's new bullet trains launch service this week at a landscape-blurring 185 miles per hour, catapulting the country into an elite high-speed rail club and fulfilling a...
Fired VIA chair sues for $3 million
(The following story by Les Whittington appeared on the Toronto Star website on March 31.) OTTAWA -- Jean Pelletier, the former aide to Jean Chrétien who was fired as chair of VIA Rail for belittling onetime Olympic star Myriam Bédard, is seeking $3 million in damages...
Train speaking: Look, listen, live
(The Pioneer Press circulated the following article by Cathryn Gran on March 31.) RIVER GROVE, Ill. -- Railroad tracks are not playgrounds. Railroad tracks need to be treated with respect. "And if you look and listen, you will live," conductor Tom McNamara told junior...
Plans for Fla. bullet train continuing
(The following article by Bill Rufty was posted on the Lakeland Ledger website on March 31.) TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- In the three years since Florida voters mandated a high-speed rail system, the rail system's fortunes in the Florida Legislature often have seemed to roll...
Urban League of Hampton Roads recognizes Norfolk Southern diversity efforts
(Norfolk Southern issued the following news release on March 31.) NORFOLK, VA - Norfolk Southern Corporation is the 2004 recipient of the Urban League of Hampton Roads award given annually to a local company that has made significant progress in diversifying its work...
