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Rail freight traffic off slightly
(The Association of American Railroads issued the following news release on January 15.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Freight traffic on U.S. railroads was off slightly during the first full week of 2004 in compared to last year, the Association of American Railroads (AAR)...
UP van driver not guilty in crash with cyclists
(The following story by Steve Meyer appeared on the Des Moines Register website on January 16.) TOLEDO, Iowa -- A Tama County jury found a Des Moines man not guilty Thursday of three charges of vehicular homicide. On June 22, 2002, a van Gary Lee Butler was driving...
Railroad offers winter car haul to Arizona
(United Press International distributed the following article on January 15.) PHOENIX -- Retirees, dubbed snowbirds, who are heading north this spring after a winter in Arizona will have the option of sending their cars home by rail. Burlington Northern Santa Fe and...
UP to move 300 technology jobs to Omaha
(The following story by Stacie Hamel appeared on the Omaha World-Herald website on January 15.) OMAHA -- Union Pacific Corp. will move 300 information technology jobs to Omaha, bringing to 1,038 the final number of jobs it will move from St. Louis to its new...
Report: UP heads list of deadbeat execs that owe companies millions
(Reuters circulated the following report on January 16.) NEW YORK -- Although top executives are no longer allowed to borrow money from their employers under a new U.S. law, few have made any effort to pay down old loans made before the law took effect, a study...
Employee dies when he falls from rail car
(The Associated Press distributed the following article on January 14.) KANKAKEE, Ill. -- An employee of the Norfolk Southern Railroad was killed this afternoon when he fell from a rail car operating in a rail yard near Kankakee. Kankakee County Deputy Coroner Bob...
Investigators seek cause of freak crash
(The following story by Stan Josey and Paul Irish appeared on the Toronto Star website on January 16.) TORONTO -- An intensive investigation is under way to find out what caused the last two cars of a freight train to derail, crushing a minivan and killing two women....
CP Rail at loss to explain derailment
(The Globe and Mail posted the following story by Siri Agrell and Elaine Marshall on its website on January 16.) TORONTO -- The young Keswick mother killed in Wednesday's train derailment had opted to spend the night at her aunt's home in Whitby rather than drive home...
Police say train derailment cleanup will take days
(The Canadian Press distributed the following article on January 15.) WHITBY, Ont. -- A woman and her niece were killed instantly when containers from a derailed freight train toppled over a bridge and crushed their van, police said Thursday. At the request of the...
Debate swirls over rail yard remotes
(The following story by Ben Fields appeared on the Ashland Daily Independent website on January 15.) GREENUP, Ky. -- What was to be a routine update on the use of remote controls in Greenup County rail yards turned into another open and occasionally heated debate over...
