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Four women killed by coal train
STEELE CITY, Neb. -- A wire service reports that four elderly women returning from a church salad supper were killed at a railroad crossing when their car was struck by a fast-moving freight train, police said Tuesday. The women, aged 80 to 95, were going to their...
Derailment blamed on bad inspection
EUNICE, La. -- A federal report released Tuesday blamed an inadequate Union Pacific Railroad inspection system for a fiery train derailment that forced the evacuation of 3,000 people in May 2000, a wire service reported. About 15 of the train's 113 cars were loaded...
Poor oversight contributed to train derailment in La.
WASHINGTON -- The National Transportation Safety Board determined today that the probable cause of a Union Pacific train derailment was the failure of a set of joint bars that had remained in service with undetected and uncorrected defects because of the railroad's...
Shuttle crew plans to give space station its first rail link
WASHINGTON -- According to the New York Times, the expanding International Space Station has living space, a science laboratory, storage modules and solar power panels. Now it will get a backbone. The space shuttle Atlantis is to take off for the station on Thursday...
Commuters face disruption as 700 U.K. train drivers strike
LONDON -- Commuters in northern England faced severe disruption Tuesday as nearly 700 train drivers staged the first of three walkouts in a dispute over disciplinary action, reports a wire service. Train operator First North Western canceled all its services after the...
Alaska Railroad posts $6.6 million net income
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- The state-owned Alaska Railroad Corp. said on Monday it earned a net income of $6.6 million in 2001 on operating revenues of $93.5 million, a wire service reports. That performance compares to net income in 2000 of more than $16.6 million on...
The long wait at train stations, some say, is for repairs
NEW YORK -- Mary Anderson lives in Flushing and takes the Long Island Rail Road into Manhattan several times a month to see a play or go to dinner. She used to walk from her house to the Broadway station at Northern Boulevard and 163rd Street, but in recent years she...
N.J. Transit fares rise, mostly to resignation
NEWARK, N.J. -- The angry protests that arose three months ago when New Jersey Transit approved its first fare increases in a decade gave way, mostly, to calm acceptance today as the new fares went into effect, averaging about 10 percent higher, the New York Times...
Second-track plan to speed trains faces hurdles
SAN DIEGO -- Most of the 60 miles of rail between Orange County and downtown San Diego is a single strand, forcing some trains to wait on sidings while other trains pass, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports. State and local transportation officials say they need to...
Amtrak may be throttling back
DENVER -- Amtrak's long-haul passenger trains, which link the West with the rest of the nation, could be curtailed or even eliminated on Oct. 1 unless Congress provides more money, governors are being formally advised this week. Amtrak is required to give 180 days...
