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Minor CSX derailment ties up Fostoria streets
(The Toledo Blade published the following article on March 26.) FOSTORIA, Ohio -- A five-car CSX train derailment yesterday afternoon caused no injuries but fouled up train and street traffic for hours. Five cars loaded with automobiles jumped the tracks at about 1:45...
NS cars catch fire in derailment
(The Bluefield Daily Telegraph posted the following article by C. Kenna Amos on its website on March 27.) BLUEFIELD, W.Va. -- For more than two hours, dark smoke from a derailed Norfolk Southern Railway train billowed upward into the overcast Wednesday morning sky...
St. Louis police to watch bridges
(The St. Louis Post-Dispatch posted the following article by Bill Bryan on its website on March 26.) ST. LOUIS, Mo. -- St. Louis police have assigned officers to watch two Mississippi River bridges 24 hours a day after a captured al-Qaida leader told interrogators...
PATH workers won’t get gas masks
(The following article by Shawn Menzies appeared in Today’s Sunbeam on March 27.) CAMDEN, N.J. -- Although the New York-based Port Authority of New York and New Jersey plans to issue gas masks for train and track employees, a similar agency in the Delaware Valley said...
Board opposes unmanned trains
(The following article by Robin Cleavenger appeared in the Erwin Record on March 26.) ERWIN, Tenn. -- The Unicoi County Commission unanimously passed a resolution Monday against the use of remote-control technology by CSX Transportation. "I have gotten several,...
Proper U.S. flag etiquette
(Amarillo television station KCIT posted the following article on its website on March 26.) AMARILLO, Texas -- The U.S. Code is more strict about some aspects of handling the flag than contemporary culture demands—it states, for example, that the flag should not be...
Moving on Amtrak
(The South Bend Tribune posted the following article by Lou Mumford on its website on March 26.) SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Passenger-train service on all three routes that crisscross southwestern Michigan would continue as it is, at least for the next six months should...
Five CSX cars derail in Ohio
(The Toledo Blade posted the following article on its website on March 26.) FOSTORIA, Ohio -- A five-car CSX train derailment yesterday afternoon caused no injuries but fouled up train and street traffic for hours. Five cars loaded with automobiles jumped the tracks...
N.Y. governor backs rail link to JFK airport
(The New York Post published the following story by William Neuman on its website on March 26.) NEW YORK -- Gov. Pataki has decided to throw his weight behind a proposed direct rail link from lower Manhattan to Kennedy Airport, and city and state officials will begin...
Transportation Labor: Federal security rules must respect due process rights of workers
(The AFL-CIO’s Transportation Trades Department issued the following press release on March 25.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The AFL-CIO Transportation Trades Department (TTD) today filed regulatory comments with the U.S. Department of Transportation, saying that new federal...
