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Flash fires at CN derailment cause no damage
(The Southern Illinoisan posted the following article by Christi Mathis on its website on February 11.) TAMAROA, Ill. -- The cause of Sunday morning's hazardous materials train derailment on the Canadian National Railroad in downtown Tamaroa remains unknown, and flash...
Tamaroa families happy to return home
(The Southern Illinoisan posted the following article by Christ Mathis on its website on February 11.) TAMAROA, Ill. -- Ten-year-old Paige Brocaille couldn't wait to get back to her own bed. Her brother, Kyle, 6, said he missed his television most. They were barely in...
200 return home after Ill. derailment
(The following article by the Associated Press appeared in the New York Times online edition.) DU QUOIN, Ill. -- About 200 of the approximately 1,000 people evacuated Sunday after a train derailed and spilled hazardous chemicals were allowed to return to the homes...
NS train derails near arsenal
(The Roanoke Times posted the following article by Jill Hoffman on its website on February 12.) ROANOKE, Va. -- Thirteen Norfolk Southern Railway "hopper" cars carrying grain and limestone and one locomotive derailed and overturned in Pulaski County near the Radford...
Nineteen CSX cars derail
(The Tallahassee Democrat posted the following article by Gerald Ensley on its website on February 12.) CYPRESS -- Nineteen CSX freight cars -- none carrying hazardous material -- derailed early Tuesday morning in the rural Florida Panhandle. The derailment occurred...
BNSF blames “human error” in remote control derailment
(The Amarillo Globe-News posted the following article on its website on February 11.) AMARILLO, Texas -- An Amarillo train derailment caused by a remote-controlled operated car Sunday was caused by human error, a spokesman for Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway in...
For transit officials, an earful of revenge
(The following article by Randy Kennedy appeared in the New York Times online edition on Feb. 11) NEW YORK -- In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever characters composed, passion never fails to wrest the scepter from reason." — the Federalist Papers, No. 55. When...
Alaska RR predicts reduced profits
(The Alaska Journal of Commerce posted the following story by Tim Bradner on its website on February 10.) ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Thanks to an infusion of $200 million in federal funds since 1996, the state-owned Alaska Railroad is in better physical shape. But a flat...
Public invited to see U.P. museum Thursday
(The Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil posted the following story by Tim Rohwer on its website on February 11.) COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa -- Diane Herzog worked for 24 years in the former Carnegie Library at Pearl Street and Willow Avenue and knew the building "intimately,"...
ODU’s magnetic train stuck at starting gate
(The Virginian-Pilot posted the following story by Debbie Messina on its website on February 10.) NORFOLK -- Old Dominion University is hoping for federal money to jump-start the stalled magnetic levitation train that has sat idle for more than two months on an...
