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Officials eye crossings targeted for change
(The Newton Kansas posted the following article by Chris Strunk on its website on March 19.) NEWTON, Kan. -- From a near bird's eye view, Burlington Northern Santa Fe engineer Chip Allen gets a good look at how motorists respond to railroad signals and trains. "As a...
Amtrak skipping Chico due to track repairs
(The Mercury-Register posted the following article by Mary Weston on its website on March 20.) OROVILLE, Calif. -- Amtrak's Coast Starlight has not been traveling through Chico lately, detouring instead through Oroville and up the Feather River Canyon, due to repairs...
Truck on tracks causes terrorism scare
(The Portsmouth Herald posted the following article by Elizabeth Kenny on its website on March 20.) PORTSMOUTH, N.H. -- Portsmouth police officers, firefighters, state police and the Manchester bomb squad were called in Tuesday morning after a black Ford truck...
Bridges called possible terrorist target
(Iowa television station WHBF posted the following story on its website on March 20.) FORT MADISON, Iowa -- Armed guards are securing a local bridge calling it a "critical structure" and a target for possible terrorist attacks. There are only two sites in the state of...
U.S. battens down under heavy security
(The New York Times website posted the following Associated Press article on March 20.) NEW YORK -- In the Arizona desert, National Guard troops clad in camouflage and toting M-16 rifles conducted round-the-clock patrols at the nation's largest nuclear power plant. On...
CN wraps up bargaining on Northern Quebec Territory with BLE ratification of new labour agreement
(CN distributed the following press release on March 19.) MONTREAL -- CN said today members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (BLE) on its 1,200-mile Northern Quebec Territory (NQT) have ratified a new collective agreement that preserves flexible work...
Commuter rail plans stir business possibilities in Utah
(The Standard-Examiner posted the following story by Antone Clark on its website on March 19.) CLEARFIELD, Utah -- The future of commuter rail opens up new business opportunities in a city where developable property is becoming a thing of the past. As part of a plan...
Roundhouse a dying part of railroads
(The News and Record posted the following story by Jim Schlosser on its website on March 17.) GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Structures like the semicircular building on Spring Garden Street in Pomona were once so common they influenced the American way of talking. When a...
CPR provides first-quarter 2003 earnings outlook
(CPR distributed the following press release on March 18.) CALGARY -- Canadian Pacific Railway today said diluted earnings per share in the first quarter of 2003, excluding foreign exchange gains and losses on long-term debt, are likely to be in the range of $0.21 to...
FAA inexplicably delays rules strengthening oversight of U.S. aircraft repaired overseas
(The TTD distributed the following statement.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The following statement was issued today by Sonny Hall, president of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD), in sharp criticism of the Federal Aviation Administration’s delay in...
