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Metrolink adding rail on frequently used line
(The Pasadena Star-News posted the following article by Mira Katz on its website on June 29.) PASADENA, Calif. -- An additional track is being added from Pomona to Montclair to the San Bernardino line, Metrolink's most heavily traveled route. The new track, to be...
UP train en route to Chicago jumps tracks in Iowa
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on June 30.) CARROLL, Iowa -- Clean up is under way in Carroll, Iowa, after a train en route to Chicago derailed. Ten cars of a Union Pacific freight train went off the tracks just after midnight today. UP...
No federal laws require train derailment notification
(The Associated Press distributed the following article on June 28.) LOS ANGELES -- Union Pacific Railroad was not required by federal or state law to warn communities in the path of runaway freight cars that derailed in Commerce, dumping tons of lumber, demolishing...
110-mph rail service planned for central Illinois
(The following Associated Press article by Jan Dennis was distributed on June 28.) NORMAL, Ill. -- By next summer, passenger trains could zip through a 120-mile stretch of central Illinois at more than 100 mph, shaving nearly an hour off of the 5 1/2-hour trip from...
Rail freight traffic declines
(The Association of American Railroads issued the following news release on June 26.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Freight traffic on the nation’s railroads was down during the week ended June 21 in comparison with the corresponding week last year, the Association of American...
Train derailment in Galesburg
(Television station WQAD posted the following story on its website on June 30.) GALESBURG, Ill. -- Nearly ten train cars carrying potentially toxic chemicals have derailed in the downtown area. The derailment happened Monday morning around 3:00 a.m. Eight cars jumped...
Train gang goes to remote control
(The Springfield News Leader posted the following article by Mike Penprase on its website on June 27.) SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Working in his Commercial Street barbershop, appropriately called the Whistle Stop, provides Bob Pfister a prime spot to watch Burlington...
70 UP cars roll away from Neb. yard days after Calif. derailment
(The Associated Press circulated the following story on June 27.) NORTH PLATTE, Neb. -- Union Pacific Railroad, already facing criticism after a runaway train in California derailed and injured 13 people, is investigating how 70 freight cars rolled away from a...
Senate panel agrees to increase size of asbestos trust
(The following article by Alex Berenson was published by the New York Times on June 27.) WASHINGTON -- Senators agreed yesterday to increase to as much as $153 billion a proposed trust fund that would end all asbestos lawsuits and instead pay asbestos victims from a...
Pa. may not be paying SEPTA its fare after all
(The following article was posted on the Philadelphia Daily News website on June 27.) PHILADELPHIA -- A former Amtrak official examining SEPTA's books for Gov. Rendell is preparing a report saying that the state isn't paying its fair share to subsidize the agency,...
