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High-speed rail system moves ahead
BRADENTON, Fla. -- The high-speed rail system called for by Florida voters in a constitutional amendment received a cautious boost from a Senate committee in the State Legislature, the Bradenton Herald reports. The Senate Commerce and Economic Opportunities Committee...
Witness: Railroad gate malfunctioned in crash
MELBOURNE, Fla. -- Melbourne Police and investigators from Florida East Coast Railways are still investigating Friday's deadly train collision that left one motorist dead, Florida Today reports. Melbourne police said 36-year-old Christopher Coffman of Melbourne died...
Determined passengers sidetrack Amtrak’s plans
HOUSTON -- Train passengers Amos and Ruth Weaver derailed the Amtrak station's plans to close at 6 p.m. Monday, the Houston Chronicle reports. Faced with having to sit outside for three hours until the Sunset Limited arrived in the station about 9:08 p.m., the Weavers...
Amtrak reform picks up steam – again
WASHINGTON -- Sitting quietly in the grand marble and granite of Union Station as the tracks and times are called out, Joy Belluzzi is what one might call a fan of Amtrak. She loves train travel, she says, so much so that a few years ago her entire family took a trip...
Train cars derail at grain elevator
GREAT FALLS, Mont. -- Five grain cars derailed in Cut Bank Sunday afternoon near the Harvest States grain elevator, closing vehicle traffic at the town's main railroad crossing and shutting down one of two railway tracks, according to the Great Falls Tribune....
CPR seen losing some steam
OTTAWA -- Although Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd.'s stock has been moving full steam ahead, some analysts caution that it may veer off track over the near term, the Globe and Mail reports. Shares of the Calgary-based railway company, one of five spinoffs of the former...
Mayor fights for small Pa. town
DARBY, Pa. -- Mayor Paula Brown of Darby, a small, blue-collar town bordering West Philadelphia, once barricaded herself in her office for three days in a feud with the borough council, according to a wire service report. She hid from federal marshals after parking...
Filmmaker faces up to teenage crime
NEW YORK -- When Peter Wade was 15, he and two friends derailed a train, killing its engineer, according to ABCNEWS.com. Now, 20 years later, he is making his youthful crime part of his first film, and the engineer's family is not happy. "It's devastating this family...
First levitating passenger train on track
SHANGHAI -- The world's first commercial magnetic levitation train will hurtle an influential group of passengers across Shanghai at up to 430 kph (270 mph) on January 1 if a crucial trial of the technology proceeds to plan, reports a wire service. Transrapid...
U.P. sues motorist over damage to locomotive
MT. VERNON, Ill. -- Union Pacific Railroad Co. is suing a Fairfield Road man, saying he caused an accident which damaged a train engine, the Register-News reports. Union Pacific claims in its lawsuit that Cliff Sanders’ “careless and negligent” acts caused the...
