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Best way to catch the train was to fly to the station
(The following travel column by David Molyneaux appeared on The Plain Dealer website on November 23.) CLEVELAND -- On the night train to Charleston, S.C., the great monuments of Washington slip silently past the window in little pockets of golden glows. Alas, glimpses...
Workers labor around the clock to get area trestle in place
(The following story by Lisa Aleman-Padilla appeared on The Fresno Bee website on November 24.) FRESNO, Calif. -- Burlington Northern Santa Fe crews are working around the clock to rebuild a Chowchilla railroad trestle that was destroyed last week in a suspected...
Cheyenne’s old UP depot holds grand opening
(The Associated Press circulated the following story on November 23.) CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- The first phase of renovation of the old Union Pacific Railroad Depot is complete, and the public was allowed to tour the 117-year-old structure Saturday. "The hardest part is...
Debate over train suicides
(The following article by Renee Koury was posted on the San Jose Mercury News website on November 24.) SAN JOSE, Calif. -- No one knows exactly how a 15-year-old Palo Alto High School student got onto the Caltrain tracks behind his school Nov. 14. Perhaps he climbed...
Fencepost art comes from BNSF conductor
(The Associated Press circulated the following story on November 23.) HAVRE, Mont. -- Delmer Ruff noticed a metal sculpture sitting on a fence post on his place one day. Soon the Havre-area farmer and his family were noticing more - north of town, on the way to Great...
VIA probes ‘disastrous’ train trip
(The following story by Brian Caldwell of Torstar News Service appeared on the Toronto Star website on November 22.) TORONTO -- A disabled Kitchener woman's complaint about a "disastrous" train trip home from Toronto has sparked an investigation by VIA Rail. Laura...
Old rail yards targeted for rebirth
(The following article by Traci Watson was posted on the USA Today website on November 24.) DENVER -- A decade ago, the only buildings in Denver's Central Platte Valley were crumbling, and the only residents were homeless people. Railroads that once kept their trains...
Chamber officials ‘recruit’ UP workers to live in Bluffs
(The following story by Dan Eshelman appeared on the Daily Nonpareil website on November 21.) COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa -- Promoting Council Bluffs as a preferred place to live was the focus at a recent encounter among community representatives and a group of Union Pacific...
Dow train worries neighbors
(The following story by Jeff Kart appeared on the Bay City Times website on November 23.) BAY CITY, Mich. -- Jeanine Link can hear the locomotive and tankers rumbling along the tracks behind her Monitor Township home. Clack clack clack. Clank clank clank. The train is...
Amtrak on track for sold-out holiday travel in Mich.
(The following story by Danielle Gordon appeared on the Kalamazoo Gazette website on November 21.) KALAMAZOO, Mich. -- Spurred by a surge in Thanksgiving ridership, Amtrak is urging Kalamazoo-area passengers to buy their tickets in advance for the busiest travel...
