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Bidding on air-rail link to proceed
(The following article be Jennifer Lewington was published by the Globe and Mail on May 23.) TORONTO -- The federal government is pushing ahead with a rail link between downtown Toronto and Pearson Airport, with an announcement expected later today by federal...
Law aboard
(The Democrat-Herald posted the following story by Steve Lundeberg on its website on May 23.) ALBANY, Ore. -- Though technically a trespasser, the fisherman walking in the railroad's right-of-way at Truax Creek just north of Albany was not a problem for Mike Stebens...
VIA Rail Canada’s updated Skeena service gives passengers more
(VIA Rail issued the following news release on May 22.) VANCOUVER - VIA Rail Canada's Skeena service just moved a notch up the totem pole. From mid-May through mid-October, the most stunning time to travel through this region, passengers can choose from one of three...
Lawmakers tackle Chicago’s railway bottleneck
(The Chicago Sun Times published the following Associated Press article by Dennis Conrad on May 22.) WASHINGTON -- Concerned about the bottleneck Chicago has become for the nation's freight rail transportation system, members of Illinois' congressional delegation are...
Hey, SEPTA! Walk in our shoes
(The Philadelphia Daily News posted the following story by Jim Nolan on its website on May 23.) PHILADELPHIA - Many of the angry activists present yesterday wanted to give SEPTA management and board members the boot. Instead, they gave them the shoes. Soft-soled. High...
Rail freight traffic registers modest gain
(The Association of American Railroads issued the following news release on May 22.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- All three measures of rail freight traffic were up on U.S. railroads during the week ended May 17 in comparison with the corresponding week last year, the...
Rail route falls short of potential
(The Los Angeles Times published the following article by Sharon Bernstein and Deborah Schoch on May 23.) LOS ANGELES -- A year after it opened, the $2.5-billion Alameda Corridor rail line is operating at less than half its capacity and has failed to lure enough...
Truck/rail industries tackle crossing safety head-on
(The Railway Association of Canada, Operation Lifesaver, the Ontario Trucking Association, and Direction 2006 issued the following news release on May 22.) TORONTO -- The sheer force and weight of trains and heavy trucks trying to cross the tracks at the same time can...
Truck stuck in underpass wrecks train schedules
(The Newark Star-Ledger posted the following article by Judy Lucas on its website on May 22.) NEWARK, N.J. -- A tanker truck carrying hazardous material got wedged in an underpass near the Northeast Corridor tracks in Elizabeth yesterday, causing up to a two-hour...
Crews contain sulphuric acid leak after CN derailment
(The Canadian Press circulated the following story on May 23.) ORILLA, Ont. -- A freight train derailment involving more than 40 cars, some leaking sulphuric acid, forced about 50 people from their homes overnight in this small Lake Simcoe village yesterday. CN Rail...
