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Acela Express, America’s answer to ‘Bullet Train,’ is comfortable but still slow
ON BOARD THE ACELA EXPRESS -- On the flat stretch past Kingston, Rhode Island, the engineer let her rip, and our Acela Express out of Boston hit its maximum speed of 150 mph (241 kph), according to a wire service report. A lot late and still a tad slow on the...
Train service returns to normal
BALTIMORE -- Officials said passenger rail and commuter service near Baltimore had returned to normal Tuesday night, a Baltimore television station reported on its website. Crews on Tuesday reopened the two tracks that were blocked when a MARC train and an Amtrak...
Reduced Amtrak role proposed
WASHINGTON -- According to a wire service, the Bush administration is aligning itself with critics who want to end Amtrak's role as the nation's sole operator of intercity passenger trains. Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta was outlining a plan Thursday that...
Bush plan would end a monopoly for Amtrak
WASHINGTON -- According to the New York Times, the Bush administration will propose on Thursday to end Amtrak's monopoly on intercity passenger rail service, government officials said Wednesday. They said the plan calls for states to help decide what service will be...
U.S. to offer Amtrak plan ‘partnerships,’ cost sharing by states included
WASHINGTON -- The Washington Post reports that the Bush administration today will unveil its long-awaited Amtrak plan, which would require states to pay an increasing share of passenger train costs, transfer the Boston-Washington Northeast Corridor to an unspecified...
Crews suffer bruises in crash of three trains
NORTH PLATTE, Neb. -- Four crew members suffered cuts and bruises after three Union Pacific freight trains crashed Wednesday, a wire service reported. The crash ignited a fire and forced the closing of a portion U.S. Highway 30. Twenty-nine of 265 cars were destroyed...
3 UP trains involved in collision
NORTH PLATTE, Neb. -- An early-morning train derailment about three miles east of North Platte along Highway 30 involving six locomotives and 265 cars was loud enough to awaken Bruce Gordon, a retired brand inspector, who lives more than half a mile away, the North...
Three Union Pacific freight trains collide, burn along track in Nebraska
NORTH PLATTE, Neb. -- Three Union Pacific freight trains collided Wednesday, injuring four crew members and igniting a fire that shut down a Nebraska highway, reported a wire service. The fire may have been caused by diesel fuel from the train engines, railroad...
BCR posts loss
VANCOUVER, B.C. -- BCR Group, government-owned parent of Canada's third largest railway, BC Rail, blamed a drop in freight revenue and the cost of running passenger trains for a wider loss last year, a wire service reports. The British Columbia government company...
Honda selects BNSF, Ferromex to move auto parts
FORT WORTH, Texas and MEXICO CITY -- The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company (BNSF) and Ferrocarril Mexicano (Ferromex) today announced that they have partnered to move time- sensitive automotive parts between Honda's production complex in Marysville,...
