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Train derails in Raleigh; no injuries
(The following story by Rebekah Straub appeared on the Register-Herald website on November 3.) BECKLEY, W.Va. -- Three engines and 14 cars of a Norfolk Southern train derailed Sunday morning in Surveyor just outside the entrance to Lake Stephen. The cause of the 11:15...
Train derails in Rahway on its way to Manhattan
(The following story by Robert Hanley appeared on the New York Times website on November 1.) RAHWAY, N.J. -- A commuter train bound for Manhattan derailed Friday morning, disrupting travel for thousands of passengers on 24 New Jersey Transit and Amtrak trains on the...
BLE-IBT Town Hall meeting today in North Platte
CLEVELAND -- The BLE will hold a Town Hall Meeting today in North Platte, Neb., regarding the proposed merger with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. The meeting will include a presentation to explain the proposed merger and the expected benefits, followed by...
O. Winston Link Museum appoints staff
(The O. Winston Link Museum issued the following news release on October 30.) ROANOKE, Va. -- The O. Winston Link Museum has named Jay Saunders museum manager and Kim Pulice program coordinator. As manager, Saunders will direct all museum operations, including a gift...
National labor backs grocery workers
(The following article by Nancy Cleeland and Melinda Fulmer was posted on the Los Angeles Times website on October 31.) LOS ANGELES -- National labor leaders threw their financial and strategic muscle behind striking and locked-out supermarket workers in California...
The worst place to drop a cellphone? Here’s one
(The following article by Michelle O?Donnell was posted on the New York Times website on October 31.) NEW YORK -- It was a natural reaction to a simple problem: a cellphone falls into a toilet, and the phone's owner seeks to retrieve it with some exploratory...
Governor praises the pace of the PATH rebuilding effort
(The following article by Charles V. Bagli was posted on the New York Times website on October 31.) NEW YORK -- Gov. George E. Pataki told downtown business leaders yesterday that there is steady and certain progress in the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site,...
Pataki visits PATH station at a recovering Ground Zero
(The New York Times posted the following article by David W. Dunlap on its website on October 31.) NEW YORK -- The homecoming began yesterday, not in a sunken memorial or a sky-piercing observatory but in a rail station that will be the first public portal to ground...
Overnite raises stock price
(The following article by Chip Jones was posted on the Richmond Times-Dispatch website on October 31.) RICHMOND, Va. -- The share price of Overnite Transportation Co. went up yesterday even before it returned to the stock market. In a filing with the Securities and...
Union Pacific: $200 million from Overnite IPO
(Reuters distributed the following article on October 31.) NEW YORK -- Freight rail operator Union Pacific Corp. on Friday said its initial public offering of shares of its Overnite Corp. trucking unit will generate an after-tax gain of about $200 million for Union...
