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Delays hit LIRR after derailment
(The following article by Amanda Y. Barrett was posted on NYNewsday.com on February 3.) NEW YORK -- Commuters from Queens and Long Island are facing delays this morning as the MTA cleans up a Long Island Rail Road train derailment that occured yesterday at the Jamaica...
Derailment delays train service in Richmond
(The Times-Dispatch posted the following article by Chip Jones on its website on February 3.) RICHMOND, Va. -- The derailment of a CSX Corp. freight train north of Emporia early yesterday delayed Amtrak passenger service through Richmond, rail officials said. CSX...
Train derails in Ind., spilling freight into ravine
(The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette posted the following article by Laura Johnston on its website on February 3.) CORUNNA, Ind. -- A freight train derailed Sunday morning in Corunna, overturning 26 cars and spilling slabs of steel onto snowy embankments. No one was...
Unprecedented manufacturing job loss yields enormous worker mobilization
(The AFL-CIO issued the following news release on February 2.) WASHINGTON -- With manufacturing job loss taking hold as a national crisis, over 3,000 union members will gather in Washington, D.C., on February 3 in a massive mobilization on Capitol Hill. The workers...
$3 million violin takes solo train ride
(The Associated Press distributed the following article on January 31.) BALTIMORE -- Gidon Kremer left his $3 million violin on an Amtrak train, but a quick-acting baggage handler retrieved the instrument and it was returned to its grateful owner. Kremer, who's...
Uncertain infrastructure largest worry for shipping, executive says
(The following report by Steve Huettel appeared on the St. Petersburg Times website on February 2.) TAMPA -- Tom Finkbiner knows planes, trains and trucks. Since 1999, he has been chief executive at Quality Distribution of Tampa, which operates the nation's largest...
Feds to allow cities to silence train whistles
(The Associated Press distributed the following article by John Seewer on February 1.) FOSTORIA, Ohio -- Harold Pelton has put up with trains all his life. Years ago steam engines sprayed cinders and coals onto the roof of his general store, forcing him to climb up...
Never the trains shall meet
(The following article by Greg Gormick was posted on the Toronto Star website on February 2.) TORONTO -- These have been tough times for trains and train riders in the GTA. Since the beginning of December, glitches in field components of Canadian National's...
It’s cold and snowy and the train is late. Why? It’s cold and snowy.
(The New York Times posted the following article by Lisa W. Foderaro on its website on January 31.) WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- Robert Sullivan, a recent law school graduate who has been commuting to New York City for job interviews, bounded off the 3:22 p.m. Metro-North...
Mont. governor questions BNSF rate increase
(The following article by Jennifer McKee was posted on the Montana Forum website on January 31.) HELENA, Mont. -- Gov. Judy Martz this week questioned why the state?s largest railroad needed to raise shipping rates for Montana farmers in the same month that the...
