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Transportation Secretary Mineta awards $40.7 million in grants to Pittsburgh
(The Department of Transportation issued the following news release on August 19.) WASHINGTON -- U.S. Secretary of Transportation Norman Y. Mineta announced the release of two grants totaling $40.7 million to the Port Authority of Allegheny County (PAAC) to modernize...
Report: Passenger list elusive in train crash
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Adrian Sainz on August 20.) MIAMI -- Federal investigators needed five months to pin down exactly how many people were on an Amtrak Auto Train involved in a fatal crash in Crescent City last year, information...
Signal problems cause delays on VRE, MARC
(The following Associated Press story appeared on the Wasington Post website on August 20.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Service has been restored to some commuter trains in the metro area this morning now that a signal problem has been fixed, but travelers are still being...
NTSB issues 2003 “most wanted” list of safety improvements
(The NTSB issued the following news release on August 19.) WASHINGTON -- The National Transportation Safety Board today issued its list of "Most Wanted" safety recommendations for 2003, adding two new issue areas focused on highway safety. The Board, drawing on a...
CSX train jumps tracks in Memphis
(Memphis television station WMC-TV posted the following report on its website on August 20.) MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Railroad crews spent the night uprighting four train engines that derailed in Midtown. The CSX engines jumped the tracks on a railroad overpass at the...
UP to repairing track at derailment site in Memphis
(Memphis television station WMC-TV posted the following story on its website on August 20.) MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- A railcar that was dangerously dangling over a Midtown roadway is gone. But it could be days before we know how much damage may or may not have been done....
Remote control units derail in North Platte
(The Associated Press circulated the following story on August 19.) NORTH PLATTE -- A switch failure caused two Union Pacific locomotives to derail inside the nation's largest rail yard. It happened Monday night when a switch failed to divert one of the engines in a...
Pressure seen growing to resolve Verizon impasse
(The Boston Globe published the following story by Peter J. Howe on its website on August 19.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- More than two weeks after labor contracts expired for 79,200 Verizon Communications workers in the Eastern United States, the phone giant and labor...
Free ride on the V&T for firefighters
(The Reno Gazette-Journal published the following story on its website on August 19.) RENO, Nev. -- Local, state and federal firefighters can get a free ride Sept. 1 aboard vintage V & T Railroad equipment at the Nevada State Railroad Museum in Carson City. "Offering...
Glory days may be over, but avid fans keep steam trains on track
(The St. Paul Pioneer Press published the following story by Beth Gauper on its website on August 18.) ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Their glory days are long gone, but trains will never die. Thanks to the almost evangelical zeal of their devotees, the locomotives, coaches and...
