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Officials to file charges in Denison railcar deaths
(TheIowaChannel.com posted the following story on its website on July 31.) DES MOINES, Iowa -- Federal prosecutors said Wednesday they're filing charges in connection with a deadly immigrant smuggling attempt in Iowa. Last October, railroad workers found the badly...
Coal trains cool wheels in Glenwood
(The Post Independent published the following story by Lynn Burton on its website on July 31.) GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. -- Those eastbound Union Pacific coal trains that have stacked up in West Glenwood Springs are parked to make room for railroad track maintenance...
RailAmerica reports second quarter earnings
(RailAmerica issued the following news release on July 31.) BOCA RATON, Fla. -- RailAmerica, Inc. today reported second quarter 2003 net income of $.15 per diluted share. Increased revenue and improved operating income at the Company's North American operations were...
Kansas City Southern takes second-quarter loss
(The following article by Randolph Heaster was posted on the Kansas City Star website on July 31.) KANSAS CITY -- Kansas City Southern took a small loss in the second quarter, mainly because of an earnings decline at its Mexican rail venture and higher fuel costs. For...
Dump truck, freight train collide at Port of Tampa
(Tampa television station Bay News 9 posted the following story on its website on July 31.) TAMPA, Fla. -- A dump truck loaded with rock salt and a CSX freight train collided at about 2 this morning at the Port of Tampa. The accident happened when the freight train...
Railroad workers hurt along tracks
(The following article by Nardy Baeza Bickel was posted on the Holland Sentinel’s website on July 31.) HOLLAND, Mich. -- Two men were critically injured Wednesday afternoon and two others were hurt in the Waverly railroad yard in Holland Township. According to police,...
Opinion: Divide and ruin
(The Baltimore Sun published the following editorial on its website on July 31.) BALTIMORE - The Bush Administration s plan for restructuring Amtrak is wrong in so many ways that it's hard to know what to focus on. But here are two of the more bone-headed ideas: ---...
Critics: Amtrak plan would burden states
(The Associated Press distributed the following article on July 31.) PHILADELPHIA -- Critics of a Bush administration plan to privatize Amtrak say the proposal would effectively kill the passenger railway system by shifting its costs to the states, which say they...
Amtrak shake-up plan hits resistance in Senate
(Reuters distributed the following article by Peter Kaplan on July 30.) WASHINGTON -- Only two days after the Bush administration outlined plans to cut direct federal funding of Amtrak, the idea ran into resistance from senators who say the railroad needs more cash,...
Four GOP Senators challenge Bush, seek more for Amtrak
(The following article by Don Phillips appeared in the Washington Post on July 31.) WASHINGTON -- Amtrak is again facing a budget showdown this fall that could place the national passenger railroad in a severe financial squeeze, even as the Bush administration and key...
