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Nation plagued by train wrecks
LANSING, Mich. -- Life is back to normal and trains are back on schedule in Potterville, Mich., where a Memorial Day derailment forced 2,200 people to evacuate their homes for five days, the Lansing (Mich.) State Journal reports. But the neighbors still talk about the...
CSX to hold second-quarter earnings meeting
RICHMOND, Va. -- CSX Corporation will hold its second quarter 2002 earnings meeting for analysts on Thursday, July 25, 2002, at 11 a.m. Eastern Time. The meeting will be held in the JP MorganChase building at 270 Park Avenue in New York. CSX expects to issue its...
Investigators at scene of Texas derailment
SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- Crews were working Monday to clear the wreckage after a Union Pacific train that derailed, forcing the temporary evacuation of about 100 people, a wire service reported. Eighteen cars of the 80-car Union Pacific train derailed about 7 p.m....
Scores of trains idled in Italy as rail workers protest government labor reforms
ROME -- Scores of trains were idled Tuesday in Italy as railway workers from a major union struck to protest the government's planned labor reforms, a wire service reports. The walkout, from 9 a.m to 1 p.m. (0700 gmt to 1100 gmt), forced the scrapping of some 30...
What’s My Line?
This fellow knows how to turn around a railroad. Why did he think he could run a telecom business? According to Forbes Magazine, Robert W. Anestis shot to fame in the railroad world when he broke the caboose union. After testifying to federal arbitrators in 1990 about...
In nuclear waste site debate, visions of transport disaster
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) says her "worst nightmare" has terrorists blowing up a truckload of lethal nuclear waste and contaminating a heavily populated stretch of Interstate 15 between Los Angeles and Nevada, according to the Washington Post. Sen....
Deteriorating rail track prime suspect in Nova Scotia derailment
DARTMOUTH, N.S. -- Investigators say deteriorating rail tracks are the prime suspect in a freight-car derailment that resulted in 800 people being evacuated from a downtown neighbourhood last February, a Canadian wire service reports. Residents along Dartmouth's...
Decade later, VRE feels the squeeze of success
WASHINGTON -- According to the Washington Post, Sharon S. Bulova was a member of the operations board of Virginia Railway Express during the 1980s when there was nothing to operate. No trains, no stations and no passengers, just a dream. Bulova, a Fairfax County...
Trains may help in energy crunch
Sierra Railroad thinks it can (It knows it can! It knows it can!) make electricity to meet California's peak summer demands. The short-touring and freight line, based in Oakdale, has 48 diesel locomotive engines in a rail yard waiting to produce 100 megawatts of...
Historic B.C. railway may be on solid ground
VICTORIA -- A business model has been found to keep trains rolling on Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway, the historic Vancouver Island line that was to be shut down this month, the Globe and Mail reports. Details of the plan to be announced Monday were still being worked...
