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Collenette defends truck plan
OTTAWA -- Transport Minister David Collenette says a bid to move more goods by rail or sea routes to avoid highway congestion is not an anti-trucking measure, the Toronto Star reported. Instead, he said, it can be seen by trucking companies as an economic opportunity...
High-speed rail bond goes before Calif. voters in 2004
SACRAMENTO -- After signing the $9.95 billion bond for a California bullet train, Gov. Gray Davis rendered a split decision on two other bills affecting the massive rail project, the Desert Sun reported. Davis signed one measure to establish a permanent agency to take...
Train crash kid could get 3 years
SHUBENACADIE, N.S. -- A teenager who caused a Via Rail passenger train derailment in Stewiacke last year could be facing up to three years in detention, the Halifax Herald reported. "We're looking for a term of incarceration . . . because of the seriousness of the...
CSX to furlough 193 in Kentucky
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- CSX Transportation operations in Louisville should not be affected by a decision to lay off about two-thirds of the nearly 300 workers at the railway company's car-repair facility in Greenup County for up to five months, the Louisville...
CP spinoffs hit one-year anniversary
TORONTO -- One year to the day after the five spinoff companies of Canadian Pacific Ltd. began trading, the divisions have met with decidedly different degrees of stock market success. But they're all higher than where they started, CBC News reported. The off-shoot...
NS delivers hazardous materials safety message
NORFOLK, Va. -- A special train operated by Norfolk Southern Railway will stop in six southeastern cities Oct. 7-12 to promote Transportation Community Awareness and Emergency Response (TRANSCAER), a nationwide program to increase community understanding of the safe...
Jury awards $4.7 million to woman injured on NJ Transit train
NEWARK, N.J. -- A rail passenger injured when she was struck by a steel rod hanging from a disabled train has been awarded $4.7 million by a jury in Hudson County, the Associated Press reported. Okhee Lee filed a lawsuit against NJ Transit after she was severely...
Suit filed in 2 rail deaths
DETROIT -- The families of two men killed in a train crash in Springfield Township last year filed a lawsuit in federal court Thursday alleging Grand Trunk Western Railroad did not provide a safe working environment, according to the Detroit Free Press. Conductor Gary...
BNSF coal train derails in Neb.
CRAWFORD, Neb. -- No one was injured after four loaded cars from a Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad train derailed near here shortly after midnight Thursday, the Associated Press reported. The cars tipped, spilled coal and blocked another main line for a short...
Panama Canal rail line boosts cargo, tourism
PANAMA CITY -- It's not every railroad that displays its stuffed and mounted roadkills in a passenger terminal -- the toothy end of a crocodile sliced in half by its wheels, an ocelot's cousin killed by its cowcatcher. Then again, the Panama Canal Railway is pretty...
