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Operation Lifesaver gives Congressional Appreciation Awards
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- "Emergency Responders: Your Safety First," a video for first response personnel receives its Washington premiere at Amtrak's Union Station May 15 during Operation Lifesaver's (OL) Congressional Appreciation Awards celebration at 6 p.m. In addition,...
SLC mayors trade blame for rail line
SALT LAKE CITY -- No one wants to take the blame for sleepless nights, cracks in walls and nicks in siding -- the byproducts of Union Pacific freight trains plowing along 900 South in Salt Lake City again. According to the Salt Lake Tribunes, Mayor Rocky Anderson...
Vote set Thursday on Mexican rail merger
MEXICO CITY -- Mexican authorities are set to vote Thursday on a proposed railroad merger that would unite the country's second- and third-largest railways into one company with nationwide reach, according to the New York Times. Under the plan, the northwest line,...
Commuter trains battle for track rights
SAN JOSE -- Faced with declining ridership, schedule delays, and tracks in need of repair, executives from two commuter lines through the East Bay told the freight line controlling the rails the situation will get worse unless they get priority on the tracks, reports...
Reps. Quinn, Clement, Amtrak Safety Chief to be honored at 2002 Operation Lifesaver Day Celebration
WASHINGTON, DC -- "Emergency Responders: Your Safety First," a video for first response personnel receives its Washington premiere at Amtrak's Union Station May 15 during Operation Lifesaver's (OL) Congressional Appreciation Awards celebration at 6 p.m. In addition,...
NTSB issues ‘Most Wanted List’ of safety improvements for 2002
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The National Transportation Safety Board issued its Most Wanted Transportation Safety Improvements list for 2002. Since the last Most Wanted report, 11 recommendations have been removed from the list. In addition, Pipeline Excavation Damage...
AFL-CIO General Board will vote on permanent political fund, kicks off 2002 campaigns
WASHINGTON -- The General Board of the AFL-CIO (on which all union presidents sit) will gather in New York on May 22 to consider a proposal by AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney to permanently fund union member education, voter registration, and mobilization around...
Railtrack chief was concerned over track repair
LONDON -- Britain's rail chief was worried about casual, unqualified laborers being hired to repair tracks and railway points less than 48 hours before Friday's fatal Potter's Bar crash, a wire service reported. Initial inquiries into the disaster, which killed seven...
14 hurt in S.C. Amtrak derailment
COOSAWHATCHIE, S.C. -- According to a wire service, an Amtrak train struck a log truck at a crossing Tuesday, derailing all 10 cars and causing minor injuries to 14 people on board, emergency officials said. The train, traveling from New York to Miami, was going 79...
Lovers fatally struck by train in N.J.
ELIZABETH, N.J. -- A couple walked onto railroad tracks and embraced just moments before they were struck and killed by a train, a wire service reported. "They were holding hands and they walked into the path of the train," Amtrak spokeswoman Karen Dunn said. "(The...
