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Train derails near Dayton Avenue
(The following article by Jason Kristufek was posted on the Ames Tribune website on June 16.) AMES, Iowa -- Part of a Union Pacific Railroad train derailed Saturday near the Dayton Avenue overpass sending thousands of bushels of corn to the ground. Seven boxcars...
Train derailment closes U.S. Highway 60 for three hours
(The Amarillo Globe-News posted the following article by Kay Ledbetter on its website on June 17.) PAMPA, Tex. -- Twenty rail cars jumped the track going into the Celanese plant west of Pampa on Monday, and while no coal was spilled or injuries incurred, U.S. Highway...
B&O plans to put its rebirth on display
(The Baltimore Sun published the following article by Reginald Fields on June 14.) BALTIMORE -- It will take more than $20 million and at least six years before the B&O Railroad Museum fully recovers from February's roundhouse roof collapse, but the museum still...
Senators, mayor join Nadler in push for rail tunnel
(The New York Villager posted the following article on its website June 16.) NEW YORK -- At City Hall on Monday, U.S. Senators Charles E. Schumer and Hillary Rodham Clinton called on all city officials to be united in the fight for federal funding for a proposed...
LIRR train storage site on track?
(The following article by Joie Tyrrell was published in Newsday on June 15.) NEW YORK -- In anticipation of expanding the Port Jefferson line, the Long Island Rail Road wants to build a 16-track train storage yard between Huntington and Smithtown. A specific site has...
‘It has put CSX on the map’
(The following article by Chip Jones was posted on the Richmond Times-Dispatch’s website on June 15.) RICHMOND -- Karen Hartsock was driving her daughter home from school when she spotted the first sign of trouble with the railroad. "I saw this orange sign posted at...
Report to SEPTA says do not eliminate service
(The following article by Jere Downs was posted on the Philadelphia Inquirer’s website on June 14.) PHILADELPHIA -- Eliminating four Regional Rail lines and the C bus and reducing dozens of other routes is a bad idea. Instead, state and local governments could produce...
Late-train refunds could be derailed
(The following article by Jere Downs appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer on June 15. Brother Tom Dorricott is the Legislative Representative of BLE Division 71 in Philadelphia.) PHILADELPHIA -- For the last decade, SEPTA riders whose trains and subways arrive more...
Plan aims to unclog Chicago’s rail congestion
(The following article by Jon Hilkevitch was published in the Chicago Tribune on June 16.) CHICAGO -- A $1.5 billion plan to rejuvenate the area's overloaded and outdated freight rail system, which delays shipments and causes trains to block motorists at hundreds of...
Al-Qaeda planned attacks on bridge, grounded airliners, trains: report
(The following article was distributed by AFP on June 15.) WASHINGTON -- The al-Qaeda Islamist militant group once planned to demolish New York's Brooklyn Bridge, blow up grounded airliners with explosive-laden vans and derail passenger trains. Quoting federal...
