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Maine train back on track
(The Boston Globe posted the following Associated Press article on its website on July 7.) PORTLAND, Maine -- Amtrak's Downeaster, which runs between Boston and Portland, appears to be making up some lost ground from a slump in ridership during the winter and early...
BNSF, North Havre settle suit
(The Associated Press circulated the following story on July 6.) HAVRE, Mont. -- Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway has settled the class-action lawsuit that about 80 North Havre residents filed over diesel fuel that leaked from the neighboring rail yard decades...
Remote control not just for toy trains any more
(The following article by Cynthia M. Ellis was posted on the Alton, Ill. Telegraph’s website on July 6.) ALTON, Ill. -- The next time a big train is seen rolling down the tracks, something could be missing -- the engineer. Moving trains without drivers are becoming a...
Derailed train blocks BNSF main line
(The Associated Press distributed the following article on July 7.) BISMARCK, N.D. -- Burlington Northern Santa Fe crews were working Sunday to reopen the railroad's main east-west line, which was blocked when a coal train from Wyoming derailed here. The railroad...
Residents evacuated after CSX vapor leak
(The Associated Press distributed the following story on July 6.) LYONS, N.Y. -- Forty people were evacuated Sunday after railroad workers spotted vapors leaking from a tanker rail car carrying a highly flammable liquid. At 1:30 p.m., CSX Railroad employees noticed...
Shots hit Amtrak passenger train
(The Associated Press distributed the following article on July 4.) WASHINGTON -- Shots were fired at an Amtrak train carrying 167 passengers from Newport News, Va., to Washington on Thursday, an Amtrak spokeswoman said. Two bullets hit the locomotive but no one was...
Astronaut offers gratitude to UP railroad workers
Ross thanks those who fixed train cars carrying shuttle parts (The Idaho State Journal posted the following story by Casey Santee on its website on July 3.) POCATELLO, Idaho -- Jerry Ross decided in the fourth grade he wanted to be an astronaut, and that's exactly...
Blind man struck by train
(The Associated Press distributed the following story on July 3.) WESTFIELD, Mass. -- A 29-year-old blind man from Westfield was seriously injured Tuesday when he was struck by a train as he attempted to cross railroad tracks with his mother. The Republican of...
Metro-North beefs up rush-hour schedule to midtown N.Y.
(The Times Herald-Record of Middletown, N.Y., posted the following story by Judy Rife on its website on July 2.) TUXEDO, N.Y. -- Metro-North Railroad will add rush-hour trains to the Port Jervis line as soon as the Secaucus transfer opens -- something now targeted for...
Agreement gives DM&E right to use track in Owatonna
(The Kansas City Start posted the following Associated Press to its website on July 2.) OWATONNA, Minn. -- The Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad will have the unrestricted right to use a 2.5-mile stretch of Union Pacific-owned track in Owatonna under an agreement...
