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State may get funds, but not fast train
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Alaska Railroad Corp. can't run ultra fast trains along its tracks now, and never intends to in the future, according to the Journal of Alaska Business and Commerce. Still, Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, says the state-owned railroad is due a portion...
Petition drive supports fuel tax to keep rail service in Missouri
KANSAS CITY -- With Amtrak's future imperiled nationwide, a volunteer group is trying to win space on the November ballot for a fuel tax to fund passenger rail service in Missouri, the Kansas City Star reports. The group, Missourians for Rail Passenger Service, is...
Amtrak officials see dollar signs of progress
OMAHA -- Short-term prospects for continued Amtrak long-distance passenger service, including through Nebraska and Iowa, improved this weekend, according to the Omaha World-Herald. Amtrak, citing signs of help from Congress, backed away Friday from its threat to issue...
Upstart railroad tackles giants
OTTAWA -- Few people would stand in front of an onrushing freight train but Tom Payne is placing himself before two of them. The National Post reports that the Edmonton businessman is taking on Canadian National Railway Co. and Canadian Pacific Railway Co. in a fight...
CPR passenger plan takes railway back to its roots
OTTAWA -- According to the National Post, Canadian Pacific Railway Co. is eyeing the rail passenger market, a business it abandoned more than 20 years ago. Rob Ritchie, president and chief executive of the railway, said getting into the passenger business could help...
CN reports 28 per cent increase in safe handling awards
MONTREAL -- Canadian National announced that 114 industrial facilities won its coveted Safe Handling Award for 2001. Seventy-two of these facilities are located in Canada and 42 in the United States. The number of winners in 2001 was up 28 per cent from 2000, when...
Alameda Corridor opens on time
LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Calif. -- A first-of-its-kind freight rail expressway opens this week in Los Angeles County, speeding everyday consumer products from the nation's two busiest ports to the transcontinental rail yards near downtown Los Angeles, providing a model for...
Camera improves safety at crossing
CHICAGO -- The number of motorists who ignore the warning gates at a notorious Naperville railroad crossing has dropped more than 80 percent since police installed video cameras to catch offenders in the act, according to the Chicago Tribune. Naperville police have...
Grain transportation costs would fall if competition plan succeeds
VANCOUVER -- A small western railway company attempting to introduce competition in Canada's grain transportation industry will have its plan to operate on Canadian National Railway's track put to a public hearing in Winnipeg on April 29, according to a press release...
Train derailment worries residents
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The derailment of two propane cars in Gainesville over the weekend was the seventh railroad accident in Prince William County since 1997, rekindling concerns among local officials about future crashes with more dire results, reports the Washington...
