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Hyndman cleanup efforts continue

(Source: Altoona Mirror, August 8, 2017) HYNDMAN, Pa. — Railroad workers are set to burn off lingering chemicals and load dangerous liquids out of derailed train cars today as they clean the site of last week’s destructive CSX train derailment in Bedford County. Full...

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FRA to invite bids to replace Amtrak on certain routes

(Source: Progressive Railroading, August 4, 2017) The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has published a final rule for a new pilot program that would seek competitive bids from "eligible petitioners" to replace Amtrak as the operator of up to three long-distance...

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Gateway chess game stalls Batory FRA confirmation

(Source: Railway Age, August 5, 2017) NEW YORK — Confirmation of career-railroader Ronald L. Batory as Federal Railroad Administrator has been delayed by New Jersey and New York’s Senate delegation—Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), Kirsten Gillibrand...

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What’s delaying Quad Cities-Chicago passenger rail?

(Source: Television station WQAD, August 3, 2017) MOLINE, Ill. — Work is winding down on a new multi-modal station and hotel in downtown Moline which is supposed to coincide with the long-awaited return of passenger rail service between the Quad Cities and Chicago via...

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Displaced Hyndman residents flock to hotels

(Source: Cumberland Times-News, August 3, 2017) LAVALE, Md. — Donna Jenkins has lived in Hyndman, Pennsylvania, for 47 years. "Never a derailment in all those years until now,” Jenkins, one of dozens of evacuees staying at LaVale’s Holiday Inn Express, said Thursday,...

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