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VIA Rail Canada wins top honours for e-services
(VIA Rail issued the following news release on November 27.) MONTREAL -- VIA Rail Canada's innovative e-services program has been awarded top honours by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, which recently named VIA'swebsite the Best Business-to-Consumer Website for a...
Man tries to halt train
(The following story by Jeff Himler appeared on the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review website on November 28.) INDIANA, Pa. -- Buffalo & Pittsburgh Railroad is preparing to pull out of the station with plans for a coal route through this central Indiana County town, sending...
Group wants commuter service on FEC rails
(The following story by Michael Turnbell appeared on the Sun-Sentinel website on December 1.) FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A South Florida business group that pushed for the new regional transportation authority is turning its attention to another challenge: getting...
Railways cut costs by leasing freight cars
(The following article by Sascha De Gersdorff was distributed by Medill News Service on November 30.) CHICAGO -- As the economy accelerates and rail freight expands, more North American railroads are forgoing the cost of ownership and maintenance by opting to lease,...
NDP leader urges premier to call election over BC Rail ‘sell-off’
(The following story by Glenn Bohn appeared on the Vancouver Sun website on November 27.) VANCOUVER -- B.C. New Democratic Party leader Carol James challenged Premier Gordon Campbell Wednesday to call an immediate election and "campaign on a broken promise" not to...
CSX buys Super Bowl tickets, lays off workers
(Morris News Service circulated the following story by David DeCamp on November 28.) JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Railroad giant CSX Corp., which announced plans this month to cut 800 to 1,000 jobs, including the possibility of a couple of cuts in its 16-person Athens...
Amtrak train collides with semi
(The Associated Press circulated the following story on November 26.) Leeper, Mo. -- The driver of a tractor trailer rig was slightly hurt on November 26 after his truck was hit by an Amtrak train in southeast Missouri. The accident involving the "Texas Eagle"...
Amtrak riders stranded 3 hours in Rhode Island
(The following story by Ryan McBride appeared on The Westerly Sun website on November 29.) WESTERLY, R.I. -- An unknown obstruction on an overhead electrical line caused a malfunction in a westbound Amtrak train headed for New York and Washington D.C. Friday,...
Rail cars flip, spilling coal
(The following article by Ron Colquitt was posted on the Mobile Register website on December 1.) MOBILE, Ala. -- Twenty-eight railroad cars loaded with coal derailed about 9 a.m. Sunday alongside U.S. 31 between Atmore and the Canoe community in southwest Escambia...
Due to demand, cost of getting grain on train unlikely to wane
(Bloomberg News circulated the following story by Daniel Goldstein on November 27.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Grain suppliers such as Cargill and railroads like Union Pacific face rising costs and shipment delays because of a railcar shortage caused by a record U.S. corn...
