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Amtrak finds a smoother ride in Congress
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- For Amtrak, the ride lately has been like a rollercoaster, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports. Right now, it's on an upswing: The House has joined the Senate in efforts to pump more money into the ailing national passenger rail system, which two...
Testy Amtrak passengers find limited relief after ordeal
HOUSTON -- According to the Houston Chronicle, more than 300 passengers on an Amtrak train that crashed into an 18-wheeler in Louisiana late Friday pulled into Houston on Saturday. They were tired, hot, hungry and testy. Their moods didn't improve when they found only...
Derailment keeps Mich. city evacuated
POTTERVILLE, Mich. -- Residents will be barred from their homes for at least another day as cleanup continues at the derailment site of a CN-owned train, a wire service reported on Thursday. An evacuation order remains in effect until Friday morning for Potterville's...
CPR plans re-spray station to reduce coal dust
CALGARY -- Work is under way to develop a permanent fully automated station to re-spray coal trains with dust suppressant along the route from the coal mines in southeast British Columbia to port facilities near Vancouver, the Canadian Pacific Railway announced in a...
Son of BLE member wins NS scholarship
NORFOLK, Va. -- Fourteen students -- including the son of a BLE member -- received college scholarships from Norfolk Southern Corporation as part of the company's annual scholarship programs. Ten of the students are the sons or daughters of employees and retirees of...
UP Corp. declares quarterly dividend of 20 cents a share
OMAHA, Neb. -- The Board of Directors of Union Pacific Corporation has declared a quarterly dividend of 20 cents per share on its common stock, payable July 1, 2002 to stockholders of record June 12, 2002, the company announced in a press release. Union Pacific...
FEC remains profitable
JACKSONVILLE, F.a -- Florida East Coast Industries Inc. put its railroad up for sale six years ago, with analysts saying the relatively short 351-mile rail line from Jacksonville to Miami was too small to continue operating on its own, the Florida Times-Union reports....
NS train derails after being hit by truck
ATLANTA -- A driver of a pickup truck slammed into the side of a Norfolk Southern train late Thursday, causing 12 cars to derail in Hall County, Ga., a wire service reported. Police said the accident happened around 10:20 p.m., prompting officials to evacuate nearly...
Second Minn. rail line is being studied
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. -- The Twin Cities' second light-rail line, linking downtown St. Paul, the University of Minnesota and downtown Minneapolis, will cost $840 million to build in 2008 dollars, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reports. The cost to build a line that would...
Reno faces train trench issues
RENO, Nevada -- The present effort to build a railroad trench through downtown Reno began in 1996, when the federal government approved the merger of the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads, the Reno Gazette-Journal reports. City officials feared the merger,...
