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Opinion: Hate to fly? High-speed rail service is just around the bend
(The Dallas Morning News published the following travel column by Larry Bleiberg on its website on July 14). DALLAS -- Somewhere in Rhode Island the train topped 150 mph. Farms, lakes and small towns blurred by the window. We were flying across the ground. That was...
BNSF awards Wabtec positive train control pilot project
(Wabtec Corp. issued the following news release on July 14.) WILMERDING, Pa. -- Wabtec Corporation has been awarded a contract by The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company (BNSF) to conduct a train control pilot program using Wabtec's Electronic Train...
U.P. to test water, soil at North Platte
(The Associated Press circulated the following story on July 14.) NORTH PLATTE, Neb. -- Union Pacific Railroad Co. will test groundwater and soil for contamination at its largest rail yard under an agreement with the federal Environmental Protection Agency. The work...
NJ Transit train derails
(The Associated Press circulated the following story on July 14.) SECAUCUS, N.J. -- Two cars of a 12-car New Jersey Transit commuter train jumped the tracks shortly before 8 a.m. Monday in a remote area near the new Secaucus rail transfer station. The cars remained...
Councilman: Remote units ‘not a city issue’
(The Idaho State Journal posted the following article by Zach Wesley on its website on July 11.) POCATELLO, Idaho -- As it stands, the city will not interfere with Union Pacific's plan to install remote control units into its Pocatello rail yards in November....
Buffalo garbage train finally due to leave
(The Buffalo News posted the following story by Michael Beebe on its website on July 11.) BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A landfill outside New York State has agreed to take Buffalo's garbage train - the 400 rail cars filled with New York City garbage that has been rotting in an...
Show public BC Rail documents: MacPhail
(The Vancouver Sun posted the following article by Scott Simpson on its website on July 14.) VANCOUVER, B.C. -- The provincial government will reveal as early as today its shortlist of private-sector candidates to take over operations of BC Rail, Opposition leader Joy...
CSX car derails, barely misses home
(Atlanta television station WXIA posted the following story on its website on July 13.) ATLANTA -- Crews cleaned up a mess from a rail car of a CSX train that jumped the tracks in Dekalb County and came precariously close to hitting a home. The accident occurred near...
Berea projects to put traffic back on track
(The Cleveland Plain Dealer published the following story by Michael O'Malley on its website on July 14.) BEREA, Ohio -- For more than 100 years, locomotive engineers have bounded through the heart of this quiet college town blasting whistles and horns and stopping...
Norfolk Southern plans key for area
(The Lorain Morning Journal posted the following article by Alana J. Roberts on its website on July 13.) LORAIN, Ohio -- Reports that Norfolk Southern may abandon its tracks running along Lake Erie between Lorain and Cleveland are beginning to ripple out among the...
