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Train-truck collision injures 2 in Oakwood
GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- According to the Gainesville Times, a Gainesville man is counting his blessings after his truck and a train collided about 9:30 a.m. Tuesday. Georgia State Patrol operator Kelly Brookshire said an eastbound 1992 Dodge Dakota driven by Grover Allen...
Questions about CPR derailment in Luzerne County
(The following story by Dave Thomas was published on January 7 on television station WNEP’s website.) SCRANTON, Pa. -- There are now questions about who needs to know when a train derails in our area. A Newswatch 16 investigation uncovered a federal law that leaves...
Turbo trains’ debut closer
ALBANY -- The Albany Times-Union reports that the first of several much-anticipated Turboliner trains should be carrying Capital Region passengers to New York City within three months, but track work that would allow the trains to run at top speed is on hold, state...
Trucker’s fatal brush with train baffles son
(The following article by Susan Abram was published in the January 7 issue of the Los Angeles Daily News.) BURBANK, Calif. -- Jacek Wysocki's son spent Tuesday morning along the railroad tracks searching for answers, wondering how his father could have ignored lowered...
Crane hits UP railroad bridge
(The following article by Bob Shea was published in the January 7 online issue of the Benicia News.) BENICIA, Calif. -- A crane on a barge hit the Union Pacific Railroad bridge that parallels the Benicia-Martinez Bridge on Tuesday, delaying some rail traffic, but...
Bombardier could pursue rail dream
(The following article by Eric Reguly was published in the January 4 online issue of the Globe and Mail.) TORONTO -- In the bowels of Bombardier's headquarters in Montreal is a musty old file called "Toronto to Montreal: The High-Speed Rail Dream," or something...
Dockworkers begin voting on new contract
(The following Associated Press article was published in the January 7 issue of the San Jose Mercury News.) SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union began voting Monday on a new contract. Representatives of Pacific ports from San...
Amtrak, N.Y. discuss refurbished trains
(The following story was published in the January 7 issue of The Business Review, Albany.) ALBANY, N.Y. -- Amtrak President David Gunn met with state Transportation Commissioner Joseph Boardman Monday in an attempt to smooth over friction between the state and the...
Amtrak passengers subdue armed man
(The following story by Melissa Tresner was published in the January 7 online issue of the Longview, Texas, News-Journal.) BIG SANDY, Texas -- Passengers aboard an Amtrak train apparently took matters into their own hands Sunday when a man wielding a plastic knife...
BNSF train derails in Ash Grove, fuel spilled
(The following article was published by television station KOLR.) ASH GROVE, Mo. -- Railroad crews spend several hours today cleaning up spilled diesel fuel from a train derailment in Ash Grove, Missouri. The Burlington Northern-Santa Fe freight train left the tracks...
