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BNSF cuts 91 jobs
TOPEKA, Kan. -- Rob Cunningham fears that if Topeka doesn't get its act together, the city will continue to lose good-paying jobs in its manufacturing sector, according to the Topeka Capital-Journal. The Topeka resident was one of 91 Burlington Northern and Santa Fe...
NTSB chairman highlights fatigue as major cause of transportation accidents
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chairman, Marion Blakey today warned that operator fatigue remains a primary cause of serious transportation accidents throughout the United States. "Many times and throughout all modes of transportation,...
German authorities give permission for new nuclear waste transport
BERLIN -- German authorities said Tuesday they have approved a new shipment of radioactive waste this year to a dump in the north of the country that has been a focus of protests by the country's vocal anti-nuclear lobby, according to a wire service. The Federal...
Talks to end UK rail strike misery
LONDON -- Negotiations are under way to try to end a series of planned 24-hour rail strikes -- the first of which blighted the journey of thousands of workers in north Wales on Tuesday, BBC News reported. Members of the drivers union Aslef and the Rail Maritime and...
Ohio commuter rail service falls through
AKRON, Ohio -- A proposed commuter rail line from Cleveland to Akron to Canton is dead, and officials of a pro-rail group in Northeast Ohio are angry, the Beacon Journal reports. The $170 million project was killed when the governing board of the Akron Metropolitan...
Authorities identify woman killed by train
RIVER EDGE, N.J. -- Authorities have identified a woman was fatally struck by a New Jersey Transit train, a wire service reports. Debra Kropfl, 23, of River Edge, was struck around 6:10 a.m. Tuesday by train 1600 on the Pascack Valley Line. Anna Farneski, a...
Use Amtrak for rail service
ATLANTA -- Having Amtrak set up rail service to Macon is preferable to the state creating a commuter-rail line between Atlanta and Macon, the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee said Tuesday. The Macon Telegraph reports that Rep. Terry Coleman, D-Eastman,...
Ga. senate poised to resurrect passenger-rail funding
ATLANTA -- Just when it appeared that major funding of passenger rail was dead for the year in the Georgia General Assembly, its backers have found an inventive way to keep the issue alive, the Savannah Morning News reports. The $16.1 billion 2003 budget that goes to...
Busy crossing hadn’t seen a wreck in almost 20 years
STEELE CITY, Neb. -- There hadn't been a car-train crash in nearly 20 years at the crossing on Steele City's north edge before four women died there Monday night, the Omaha World-Herald reports. But three times as many Union Pacific trains rumble through the town,...
Car-train fatalities aren’t common
LINCOLN, Neb. -- The deaths of four Fairbury women reminded Southeast Nebraska residents of an oft-forgotten killer: car-train crashes, the Lincoln Journal Star reports. Until Monday, the Federal Railroad Administration had recorded no fatal wrecks over the last...
