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One firm is cut from T list for commuter rail
BOSTON -- One of the three contenders bidding to run the MBTA's commuter rail system was eliminated yesterday because its proposal was incomplete, the Boston Globe reported. The departure of Bay State Transit Services Inc., a consortium of British rail giant...
Days may be numbered for CSX route to Port Tampa
SOUTH TAMPA -- Somewhere near the warehouse district of North Hyde Park, Cory Dickerson toils in a spot only hobos and train workers know much about, the St. Petersburg Times reported. In the dark and drizzle, he labors by flashlight, uncoupling cars from a CSX train....
Amtrak files countersuit over Acela
WASHINGTON -- Amtrak is suing the manufacturer of its high-speed Acela Express train, escalating a year-old legal battle over design flaws that have slowed America's first attempt at high-speed rail, the Associated Press reports. Amtrak is seeking more than $200...
BNSF train, 18-wheeler collide
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- A Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight train, not an Amtrak train, crashed Wednesday morning south of Fresno, the Bakersfield Californian reported. Bakersfield.com on Wednesday morning reported that the crash involved an Amtrak train. Those...
Two more CN yard engines jump tracks
SARINA -- Despite assertions from a railway official that rail traffic is safer than ever, two more trains leapt from their tracks Saturday in Sarnia, the Observer reported. That brings the total number of train derailments in the city involving Canadian National...
NS locomotive derails, spills fuel
MANSFIELD, Ohio -- A Norfolk Southern train engine rolled off the tracks Wednesday afternoon, spilling several hundred gallons of fuel into the ground, the Mansfield News Journal reported. The GP 8 General Motors locomotive ran off the tracks just south of the bridge...
Cuba struggles to maintain railway
HAVANA -- Cuba is struggling to restore its railway system, Latin America's oldest, amid an ongoing economic crunch and complaints about delays and the aging engines, the Associated Press reported. The railway was born 165 years ago this week, and it has long been...
French high-speed train evacuated after bomb scare
PARIS -- According to the Associated Press, a high-speed Thalys train connecting Paris to Brussels was halted Wednesday after authorities received a report that a bomb had been placed on board, the French rail authority said. Several hundred passengers were safely...
‘Elf-run’ assembly line sorts goodies for Santa Train
KINGSPORT, Tenn. -- It's the type frenzy usually associated with gleeful children ripping packages open, the Kingsport Times-News reported. But Wednesday night at Ed Moore's Food City, it was the type enthusiasm scores of volunteers had while packing up an estimated...
Tenn. florist decks halls of Santa Train
ERWIN, Tenn. -- In recent years, the women who run Heartfelt Florist in Erwin have had the job -- or, as they put it, the privilege -- of decorating the legendary Santa Train before it heads north to deliver gifts to the children of Appalachia, the Erwin Record...
