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Snow blocks roads on Plains, halts Amtrak
(The Associated Press circulated the following story on February 11.) BILLINGS, Mont. -- Snow driven by wind gusting to 57 mph closed schools and made highway travel hazardous Wednesday on the northern Plains, and halted an Amtrak train. Some highways in western South...
Railroad stocks: Ready to roll?
(The following article was posted on BusinessWeek Online on February 11.) NEW YORK -- Railroad stocks have started to stall in 2004 after outperforming the benchmark Standard & Poor's 500-stock index last fall. From late October to early January, the rails group...
City takes no action on remote control locomotives
(The following story by Connie Jo Discoe appeared on the McCook Daily Gazette website on February 11.) McCOOK, Neb. -- Red Willow County commissioners declined Monday morning to take any action now on the use of remote control locomotive in the county. Sue Roth of...
Amtrak’s Downeaster thrives
(The following article by Clare Kittredge was posted on the Boston Globe website on February 12.) BOSTON -- Just after 7 a.m. every weekday morning, Steve Sullivan drives his Ford pickup truck from home to the Exeter, N.H., train station on Lincoln Street to catch the...
Gunn: Bush’s Amtrak plan would close railroad
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Leslie Miller on February 11.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Amtrak President David Gunn said Tuesday that President Bush’s proposal to give the railroad just over half what it sought in federal subsidies would shut it...
22 cars derail in Bowie
(The following story by Carol Broeder appeared on the Arizona Range News website on February 11.) BOWIE, Ariz. -- Amazingly no one was injured in a dramatic train derailment, which strewed railroad cars across the desert near Bowie last Tuesday night. Twenty-two cars...
Woodbridge train derailment causes neighborhood evacuation
(The Associated Press circulated the following story on February 11.) WOODBRIDGE, N.J. -- Three tank cars carrying ethanol derailed Wednesday, and authorities evacuated 12 to 15 homes in the township's Sewaren neighborhood as a precaution. The three cars, each...
Union movement holds national week of action in support of striking and locked out Southern California grocery workers
(The AFL-CIO issued the following news release on February 10.) Nationwide, Workers and Their Allies Tell Safeway They Will Hold the Line on Healthcare WASHINGTON -- In a dramatic, organized effort, members of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), the...
Commuters aren’t happy with Metro-North
(The following story by Katherine Didriksen and Jonathan Lucas appeared on the Stamford Advocate website on February 11.) NEW YORK -- In a year that included a fare hike, a blizzard and the largest blackout in the country's history, Metro-North officials are proud of...
KCS declares quarterly preferred dividend
(Kansas City Southern issued the following news release on February 10.) KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The Kansas City Southern (KCS) Board of Directors declared a regular quarterly dividend of 25 cents per share on the outstanding KCS 4% non-cumulative preferred stock. The...
