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John Snow: Track of a crisis manager
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In 1996 and 1997, CSX Transportation experienced a series of costly and embarrassing train wrecks, including one in Arlington that disrupted Virginia commuter service for a month. The Federal Railroad Administration concluded that some managers...
Amtrak officials respond to high-speed rail questions
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Amtrak officials are "working through the issues" that caused New York state Transportation Commissioner Joseph Boardman to go public with complaints about Amtrak's commitment to high-speed rail traffic upstate, said Amtrak spokesman Daniel Stessel in...
Mayor asks for rail delay
CLEAR LAKE, Texas -- Mayor Lee P. Brown has sent a letter to Surface Transportation Board Chairman Roger Nober, requesting that the deadline for comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Study related to the rail line proposed by the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe...
China sees its future in railroad
BEIJING -- They're laying track to Tibet. In Shanghai, they're about to christen the world's most futuristic commercial train -- a no-wheels wonder that races on a cushion of magnetism. Next, China's railway builders want to link the country's commercial capital to...
B&O anniversary observed in W.Va.
WHEELING, W.Va. -- While area residents were making final preparations to observe Christmas, December 24 marked an important anniversary in the area's transportation history, according to the Wheeling News Register. The last spike completing the Baltimore and Ohio...
Fatal snowmobile accident in Wilton
WILTON, N.Y. -- A snowmobile accident has claimed the life of a 22-year-old in Wilton, television station WTEN reported. State Police said Justin Ordon was riding his snowmobile along a set of train tracks yesterday around 4:00, when he was hit from behind by an...
Indians fight to regain lands lost to railroad
LEECH LAKE RESERVATION, Minn. -- Richard Robinson Jr. remembers how much his grandfather Martin Bobolink, a hospital janitor, looked forward to retiring and returning to his land here. "He told us there was buried treasure there because his dad had put up gangsters,"...
Officials blame bad rail in UP derailment
TUCSON, Ariz. -- A defective rail is being blamed for the derailment of 16 cars and two locomotives Tuesday three miles south of Tubac, the Arizona Daily Star reported. No one was injured in the 7:45 a.m. derailment of the Union Pacific Railroad train, which shut down...
47 cars from a BNSF coal train derail near Aurora
AURORA -- Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad got some coal in its stocking this Christmas. And on the ground, and on the road, and on the ... Forty-seven cars from a BNSF coal train derailed around 10:40 p.m. on December 23 northeast of the Iams plant at 1055 W....
Opponents question DM&E air pollution
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Environmental opponents to the expansion of the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad want a federal court to order a review of the air-pollution impacts of the $2 billion project, the Associated Press reported. The Sierra Club and Minnesotans for...
