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Pacific dockworkers approve 6-year pact
(The Boston Globe published the following Associated Press article on its website on January 23.) SAN FRANCISCO -- West Coast dockworkers overwhelmingly approved a new six-year contract yesterday, formally ending a dispute that had closed the nation's Pacific ports...
Bombardier will build 500 freight cars in Mexico
MONTREAL -- Bombardier Transportation announced that Gunderson-Concarril, a joint venture formed in 1998 by Bombardier and The Greenbrier Companies, has received an order valued at $53.7 million Cdn ($35 million US) to build 500 freight cars for TTX Company....
Envisioning a bridge as a Penn Station foothold
NEW YORK -- Short-lived bridge may unlock one of New York City's longest-gestating projects: the transformation of the General Post Office on Eighth Avenue into a new Pennsylvania Station, reports the New York Times. The temporary bridge is to be erected next year for...
Metro rules out sabotage or error
WASHINGTON -- Metro officials have not determined the cause of Monday's rare train derailment but they have ruled out sabotage or terrorism, debris on the tracks, cold weather and human error on the part of the train operator. Spokesman Ray Feldmann issued a...
20-year-old train buff saves Amtrak F40
(The following story by Fred Leeson was published on the Portland Oregonian’s website on January 23.) PORTLAND, Ore. -- Give $20,000 to most young men interested in vintage muscle cars and their thoughts will turn to vehicles like a Corvette, a Porsche or a Z. Not...
Metro-North to control Port line
(The following story by Judy Rife was published in the January 23 issue of the (Middletown, N.Y.) Times Herald-Record.) NEW YORK CITY -- Metro-North Railroad yesterday approved a long-term lease for the Port Jervis line that sets the stage for the eventual purchase of...
Dip in LIRR rush-hour riders
(The following story by Joie Tyrrell was published in the January 22 issue of Newsday.) NEW YORK -- A decline in the number of rush-hour commuters caused overall ridership on the Long Island Rail Road last year to fall 1.9 percent. But it was still among the best...
Cold snap slows trains in Conn.
(The following story by Matthew Strozier was published in the January 23 issue of the Stamford Advocate.) STAMFORD, Conn. -- Turns out trains don't like the cold. Because of the weeklong bitter chill, Metro-North Railroad's New Haven Line has dropped the maximum speed...
A year after CPR derailment, the land, if not the people, has healed
(The Tri-Valley Dispatch in Casa Grande, Ariz., published the following Associated Press story by Blake Nicholson on January 23.) MINOT, N.D. -- Tom Lundeen watches the train rumble and clank along the track just yards from his home. His eyes follow the chemical...
Family seeks $25m in MBTA passenger’s death
(The following story by Andrea Estes and Mac Daniel was published in the the January 23 online edition of the Boston Globe.) BOSTON -- The family of a Wellesley scientist who suffered a fatal heart attack last summer on an MBTA commuter train that continued to pick up...
