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Pushing to make a rail connection
(The Boston Globe posted the following story by Thomas C. Palmer Jr. on its website on May 24.) BOSTON -- For years, the rail company CSX Inc. has said that its sprawling freight-loading facility in Allston was there to stay. A 1994 study of 20 sites along the tracks...
BC Rail sale proposal sparks bidding war
(The Calgary Herald posted the following story by Grant Robertson on its website on May 23.) CALGARY -- It's a regional railway with a $503-million debt and freight service to tiny logging towns with names such as Chipmunk and Carp, but the proposed sale of BC Rail...
Train derails in N.M., leaking fumes
(The following Associated Press article was posted on the New York Times’ website on May 27.) LAGUNA, N.M. -- A freight train partially derailed in New Mexico on Monday, and emergency workers evacuated about 40 residents after chemical fumes were detected from one of...
Remote-control trains roll along
(The Tri-Valley Herald posted the following article by Inga Miller on its website on May 25.) MARTINEZ, Calif. -- Just like regular trains, they chug along the tracks, lugging box cars and clanging as they go. In all ways but one, the locomotives running on the newest...
Train safety to be discussed
(The Clinton Herald posted the following article by Scott. T. Holland on its website on May 25.) CLINTON, Iowa -- Are remote control trains a threat to public safety? Not the ones that move around a miniature landscape in someone's basement, but real, live,...
To BLE member, war worth the sacrifice
(The Nashville Tennessean posted the following article by Kelli Samantha Hewett on its website on May 25. Brother Scott A. Barkalow is a member of BLE Division 41 in Nashville.) NASHVILLE -- In his ordinary life, Scott Barkalow is a CSX train engineer, husband,...
Historic Truckee celebrates 6th Annual Railroad Days with Mansions on Wheels – September 6-7, 2003
(The following news release was issued by the Truckee-Donner Chamber of Commerce on May 22.) TRUCKEE, Calif. -- "A railroad, fellow citizens, is a machine and one of the most beautiful and perfect of labor-saving machines. It well suits the energy of the American...
BNSF to donate to Boys and Girls Clubs
(The Capital-Journal posted the following article by Amy Bauer on its websit eon May 23.) TOPEKA, Kan. -- About 320 children from the Boys and Girls Clubs of Topeka will hop on buses May 30 bound for Emporia and an even more exciting ride -- on the 2003 Burlington...
MTA chief uses tale of bathroom woe to argue fare hike was needed
(The Associated Press circulated the following story on May 23.) NEW YORK -- Metropolitan Transportation Authority chief Peter Kalikow used a tale of bathroom woe to argue that rolling back the fare hike might provide immediate relief, but could cost more later....
Mexico’s TMM whittles self down to nil
(The following article by John Nagel was posted on the Daily Deal website on May 22.) MEXICO CITY -- Grupo TMM SA, Latin America's largest multimodal transport company, on Wednesday, May 21, blamed investors who refused to participate in a bond exchange for its...
