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Ex-railroad employee holding open reunion
(The Express-Times posted the following story by Alyssa Colonna on its website on August 1.) BATH -- Steve Unger once broke his hand working as a brakeman on the Lehigh & New England railroad. It was 3 a.m. on a Sunday, he recalls, and his train car was carrying a...
Rail freight traffic off slightly on U.S. railroads
(The Association of American Railroads issued the following news release on July 31.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Total freight traffic on the nation’s railroads was down slightly during the week ended July 26 in comparison with the corresponding week last year, the...
Teamsters to endorse Gephardt’s Presidential bid
(The Washington Post published the following article by Thomas B. Edsall and Dan Balz on August 1.) WASHINGTON -- The executive board of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, one of the nation's largest unions with 1.3 million members, plans to endorse the...
Four charged in deaths of immigrants
(The Des Moines Register published the following story by Mark Siebert on its website on August 1.) DES MOINES, Iowa -- Federal authorities returned to a Des Moines railroad yard Thursday to announce charges against four men for their roles in the deaths of 11...
UP conductor indicted in 11 immigrant deaths
(The Caller-Times published the following story by Tim Eaton on its website on August 1.) CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas -- A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted a Kingsville railroad conductor, along with three other men, in connection with the smuggling of 11 illegal...
Three former Amtrak workers admit to theft
(The Associated Press circulated the following story on July 31.) ALBANY, N.Y. -- A former Amtrak conductor pleaded guilty Thursday to stealing $41,000 in cash ticket sales from passengers, officials said. Dennis Hartley, 44, pleaded guilty to one count of theft of...
Opinion: Bush Amtrak plan off track
(The Seattle Post-Intelligencer posted the following editorial on its website on August 1.) SEATTLE -- The Bush Domestic Doctrine can be boiled down to this: Take a federal program -- any federal program -- and claim that it will run better, more efficiently when its...
Montana Senators agree on need for Amtrak
(The Billings Gazette posted the following story by Ted Monoson on its website on August 1.) BILLINGS, Mont. -- The Bush administration's proposal to overhaul Amtrak is being panned by Montana Sens. Conrad Burns and Max Baucus. Baucus, a Democrat, sent a letter...
Montana gov vows to save Amtrak service
(United Press International circulated the following story on July 31.) WHITE FISH, Mont. -- Gov. Judy Martz vowed Thursday to go to bat for the Empire Builder, the cross-country Amtrak train provideing Montana with its only passenger rail service. Martz chairs the...
N.M. to fight Amtrak redo
(The Albuquerque Tribune posted the following story by Frank Zoretich on its website on August 1.) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The plan President Bush sent to Congress this week for the reorganization of Amtrak passenger rail service over the next six years is "unrealistic...
