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Amtrak president says cracks under trains could have caused derailment
BOSTON -- The president of Amtrak said cracks underneath some of its locomotives were so serious that they could have caused a derailment, reported a wire service. The cracks, which have sidelined all of its high-speed Acela Express locomotives and 15 other...
Amtrak restores 60 percent of Acela routes
WASHINGTON -- Amtrak said it had restored over half of the 50 daily train departures on its high-speed Acela route on Monday, after potentially dangerous suspension-system defects prompted the passenger railroad to suspend operations last week, according to a wire...
Amtrak Acela trains returning to service
WASHINGTON -- A wire service reports that Amtrak's high-speed Acela Express is returning to service sooner than planned, with nine trains scheduled to run on Monday, the railroad said today. The trains, which can reach speeds of 150 miles an hour, will make 30...
SPEEA says Boeing is attempting to manage with scare tactics
SEATTLE -- The union representing more than 23,500 technical and professional employees at The Boeing Company said the announcement that the aerospace giant may lay off thousands more employees if the International Association of Machinists (IAM Local 751) strikes...
Self-powered rail car rolling into Denver
DENVER -- Colorado Railcar, the luxury rail car builder, unveils today its solution to the nation's traffic woes -- a $2.9 million self-propelled commuter rail car that rides on ordinary freight-line tracks, the Rocky Mountain News reported. The Fort Lupton company is...
Train kills 6 walking on tracks
MEXICO CITY -- According to a wire service, a train struck and killed six young people who were walking along railroad tracks during a religious procession, officials said Thursday. The bodies of the six people, between the ages of 13 and 25, were found scattered...
Colorado Railcar rolls out new commuter car
DENVER -- Fort Lupton-based Colorado Railcar today will unveil a new commuter railcar, the first of its kind to be built in more than 40 years, the Denver Post reports. After two years in development, the company has created a diesel-powered passenger railcar that can...
DM&E lawsuit gets first day in court
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- The Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad began arguing against the state's eminent domain law in federal court on Wednesday, a wire service reported. The DM&E wants U.S. District Judge Lawrence Piersol to strike down the 1999 law that requires...
Investigators focus on valve in chlorine gas leak probe
ST. LOUIS, Mo. -- Federal investigators Thursday were focusing on why a fail-safe shut-off valve did not prevent a chlorine gas leak at a plant south of St. Louis, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. Hundreds of homes and businesses in the Festus-Crystal City area...
Opinion: Rail safety
(The following was published as a "Letter to the Editor" in the August 16 edition of the Washington Post.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- While we must await the National Transportation Safety Board's report for definitive analysis of the Amtrak derailment in Kensington, it...
