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Controlled branch line crossings wanted
REDVERS -- A train accident that killed a Redvers man near the village of Bellegarde has raised concerns about visibility at railway crossings on the Arcola branch line, the Regina Leader-Post reports. Barry Blezy, 40, of Redvers was killed in a single-vehicle...
Illinois plans high-speed rail test Oct. 31
CHICAGO -- The state's high-speed rail project will slide forward a bit further Oct. 31 when officials test a short stretch of tracks north of Bloomington-Normal with a train traveling at 110 mph, the State Journal Register reported. Meanwhile, financially struggling...
Seattle monorail gets help from big businesses
SEATTLE -- Seattle cabdriver Dick Falkenbury remembers how hard it used to be to build political support for the monorail, the Seattle Times reported. With some nervousness, he would pick up his home phone and start trying to convince people that the city's elevated...
GATX Rail initiates new railcar order program
CHICAGO -- GATX Rail today announced that it has initiated the first phase of a committed railcar purchase program, under which it will acquire up to 7,500 newly manufactured railcars over the next five years. GATX Rail expects that this program will provide high...
CSX reports third-quarter earnings
RICHMOND, Va. -- CSX Corporation today reported third-quarter net income of $127 million, 60 cents a share, up from $100 million, 47 cents a share, a year ago. The increase resulted primarily from real estate gains and decreased interest expenses compared to last...
Record quarter for UP
OMAHA -- Union Pacific Corporation today reported an all-time record net income for the third quarter of $437 million, or $1.63 per diluted share. This is compared to net income of $267 million, or $1.04 per diluted share, in the third quarter of 2001. Third quarter...
UP faces personnel shortage in St. Louis
ST. LOUIS -- The Union Pacific Railroad is hiring dozens of new engineers, conductors and brakemen to keep up with the workload in St. Louis and elsewhere, but one union official questions whether it will be enough, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. Omaha,...
Officials studying Amtrak derailment
HAYWARD -- Union Pacific Railroad and federal officials say they still haven't determined why a steel bar was on the tracks on Aug. 21, when an Amtrak train hit it and derailed, the Alameda Times-Star reported. Union Pacific and the Federal Railroad Administration are...
Amtrak holds high-speed test
TOWANDA, Ill. -- A special Amtrak train roared through Towanda at more than 100 mph Wednesday as part of an ongoing test of high-speed passenger rail service in Illinois, the Bloomington Pantagraph reported. The test, which was not announced to the public, was an...
Train derails at Louisiana CFI plant
DONALDSONVILLE, La. -- State police were on the scene of a train derailment Wednesday in Donaldsonville, TheNewOrleansChannel.com reported. It happened at the CFI plant, where 10 cars are partially derailed and four are overturned, police said. Some of the cars were...
