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High Speed Rail Authority starts campaign for voter approval
(The following article by Gary Richards was posted on the San Jose Mercury News’ website on July 16.) SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Buoyed by a statewide poll showing that two-thirds of Californians support high-speed trains running between Los Angeles and the Bay Area, the...
Video built the freight train yard
(The following article by Jeff Pappone was published by the Globe and Mail on July 17.) OTTAWA -- While locomotives may be bigger and stronger than they were a century ago, the basic methods workers use to assemble trains in freight yards haven't generally improved...
San Jacinto Rail gets the green light
(The Clear Lake Citizen posted the following article by Mary Alys Cherry on its website on July 16.) CLEAR LAKE, Texas -- The San Jacinto Rail partnership got the go-ahead Wednesday for its proposed 12.8 mile railroad when the Surface Transportation Board cleared a...
Railway lands subsidy for passenger service
(Northern Ontario Business posted the following story on its website on July 17.) SUDBURY, Ontario -- Algoma Central Railway received a $2.1-million federal subsidy to continue passenger rail service in northeastern Ontario. Federal Transport Minister David Collenette...
Ohio on route of nuclear cargo
(The Akron Beacon Journal posted the following story by Bob Downing on its website on July 17.) AKRON, Ohio -- A top-secret train carrying highly radioactive nuclear waste may have gone through Northeast Ohio this week. Officials would not provide any information...
Faster trains worry city residents
(The following article by Kate Garsombke was posted on the Stevens Point Journal website on July 17.) STEVENS POINT, Wisc. -- A proposal to route trains through Stevens Point, without stopping in the Patch Street rail yard, would close off two streets and allow trains...
Residents consider UP yard environmental, health blight
(NCMonline.com posted the following story by Gilbert Estrada on July 15.) LOS ANGELES -- Last month, Southeast Los Angeles was violently reminded of the dangers involved in moving railroad cargo through dense community neighborhoods: by the destruction of homes and...
Meeting today will focus on three recent derailments
(The Henderson Gleaner posted the following story by Beth Smith on its website on July 17.) HENDERSON, Ky. -- Representatives of CSX, Henderson's Emergency Management Agency, Brenntag Mid-South Inc. and other officials will meet today for a "question and answer"...
Conductor draws blame in derailment
(The following article by Robert Hanley was posted on the New York Times’ website on July 17.) NEWARK, July 16 — The conductor on the Manhattan-bound commuter train that lost a wheel and derailed Monday morning was accused today of incorrectly performing an emergency...
Amtrak pleads for more money
(FoxNews.com posted the following story by Kelley Beaucar Vlahos on July 17.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Some say you could set a clock to it. No, not Amtrak's departure and arrival times, but its yearly funding requests. Every year, Amtrak (search) asks Congress for money...
