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Trains collide in Baltimore
BALTIMORE -- Train service between Wilmington, Del., and Washington was disrupted yesterday evening after a collision between a northbound Amtrak passenger train and a southbound MARC commuter train near Baltimore's Pennsylvania Station, according to the Baltimore...
UP teams up with troopers to promote safety
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. -- The Union Pacific railroad teamed up with the Oregon State Police in an annual effort to encourage safety around railroads, the Herald and News reports. Using the same locomotives that carried the Olympic torch through Klamath Falls last winter,...
Two men killed by freight train in Pa.
LANGHORNE, Pa. -- According to a wire service, two men were struck and killed by a freight train after ignoring warnings that the train was bearing down on them, authorities said. The train, carrying 68 cars of garbage, hit the men Sunday afternoon on a straight...
CSX transportation boosts emergency responder outreach
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- CSX Transportation, the largest railroad in the eastern United States, is boosting its initiative to keep emergency responders prepared for rail-based accidents. A comprehensive new CSXT emergency planning guide is now in place in more than 2,500...
DM&E acquisition would double amount of rail line
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The federal Surface Transportation Board plans to approve Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad’s purchase of another rail company owned in part by Missoula businessman Dennis Washington, a wire service reported. The board said it will approve the...
Hearing on Amtrak funds called
WASHINGTON -- The Senate Appropriations subcommittee on surface transportation yesterday scheduled a hearing for next week to examine Amtrak's precarious financial condition and to grill Bush administration witnesses on what they want to do about it, reports the...
Opinion: New rail transit systems could be used to direct future U.S. growth
WASHINGTON -- This is a good news-bad news story about riding the rails within cities and between cities, according to Roger K. Lewis, a practicing architect and a professor of architecture at the University of Maryland, in an editorial in the Washington Post. The...
How much money does it take to run a railroad?
NEW YORK -- David L. Gunn is a former top executive of the transit systems in Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Washington, according to the New York Times. He will turn 65 on Friday but was called out of retirement last month to be the president and chief executive...
Deal makers share their secrets
OTTAWA -- Canadian National Railway Co. president Paul Tellier has been told on occasion that he overprepares for business negotiations, the National Post reports. But, he says, there is a method to his meticulousness. "This is a point that cannot be overstated: You...
Accidents place BNSF under FRA scrutiny
Two Metra commuter trains collided at low speed in Aurora, Ill., earlier this week, injuring 23 people and snarling evening rush hour service. Only one person was seriously injured, officials said, and the morning rush hour went smoothly today. The head-on collision...
