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Town comes up big with a rail-car giant
HORNELL, N.Y. -- This has been a railroad town since 1851, when President Millard Fillmore and Daniel Webster, his secretary of state, came through here on a smoke-belching steam locomotive for the inaugural run of the Erie Railroad from New York City to Dunkirk, the...
UP might drive off Toyota
SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- Union Pacific Railroad is undermining San Antonio's bid to land a Toyota Motor Corp. plant and it isn't heeding pleas to negotiate, local economic development and county leaders say. The San Antonio Express-News reports that Toyota wants its...
MBTA head chooses new rail service
BOSTON -- Boston-based consortium that includes a former MBTA general manager has been chosen by the head of the MBTA to run the region's commuter rail service in a move that could make it a viable private-sector competitor to Amtrak, reports the Boston Globe. General...
Railroad gives riders rebate after bad service
OAKLAND, Calif. -- Imagine Caltrans giving back $2 tolls after a wreck on the bridge costs commuters an extra hour or BART cutting fares after too many escalators break down, the Oakland Tribune reported. Imagine airlines slashing prices because bad weather delays too...
Brainy new trains rule at Via Rail
TORONTO -- To build a better locomotive, you used to give it more speed and brawn. Now, you have to give it brains, too, according to the Toronto Star. Across the country, both passenger and freight trains are being hauled by a new generation of locomotives that...
STB says environmental impact of proposed San Jacinto rail line ‘negligible’
PASADENA, Calif. -- A Draft Environmental Impact Statement on a proposed rail project in Bayport released Friday called potential environmental impacts "negligible," according to the Pasadena Citizen. The document, which runs several hundred pages in length, was put...
Former railroad employee sues company over safety
AMES, Iowa -- A former employee is suing the Union Pacific Railroad for failing to provide a safe environment and a safety training program and for not preventing injuries, the Ames Tribune reported. Mark S. Grommet claims in documents filed last month in Story County...
Locomotives collide in rail yard
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Emergency crews were at the scene of a train collision in the Collins Lane Rail Yard in eastern Jefferson County, television station WLKY reported. Nobody was injured when two locomotives collided head-on at about 9:30 a.m. on December 5. Diesel...
CPR celebrates a half-century on piggyback
TORONTO -- It was 50 years ago this month that a new concept in long-distance freight was rolled out in Canada with the first Canadian Pacific Railway intermodal shipment, the Canadian Press reported. From its start on the night of Dec. 1, 1952, as a single piggyback...
Broken track cited in holiday train derailment
LAUREL, Ind. -- A broken rail caused a holiday train carrying more than 400 people to derail Saturday night on its way to historic Metamora, a popular day trip destination for many Tristate residents, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported. More than two dozen people aboard...
