Trainnews - volume 2 - issue 75 - 03/31/09
NOTICE - Trainnews will not publish Sunday or Thursday this week account travel
Editor's Note - Please send newsworthy photos to
trainnews@att.net, please include name, location and narrative so folks know what, where and why it is newsworthy.
No Photo tonight, as I have lost connection to my file server, pictures will return on Friday. Thanks to those who have sent photos.
Domestic News
Car on tracks causes two train delays
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www.newsday.com]
NICTD debuts new train cars
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thenewsdispatch.com]
Chicago Amtrak crash: Amtrak engineer blamed for 2007 crash that injured 71
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www.chicagotribune.com]
CTA train operator offers pleasantries and smiles aboard the Red Line
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www.chicagotribune.com]
Passing train may have started fire near Eagan river bottoms
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www.twincities.com]
Palo Alto blasts Caltrain's plan to share tracks with high-speed rail
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www.mercurynews.com]
Train nicks school bus injuring 3 kids
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www.krqe.com]
Train Track Trespassers to be Cited in Chico
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newstalk1290.wordpress.com]
Fitchburg Train Travel To Boston To Get Easier
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www.wbjournal.com]
Palo Alto digs in for train-tunnel battle
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www.paloaltoonline.com]
From Long Beach to Pasadena, It Would be One Train Ride
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laist.com]
Five Railroad Projects Selected for Stimulus Funding
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www.kwch.com]
$20K Of Equipment Stolen From UP Railroad
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cbs13.com]
Rails See Safety Switch
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www.joc.com]
Rail advocates meet in Essex
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www.montanasnewsstation.com]
SunRail In Trouble?
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www.cfnews13.com]
State will repair rail stations
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www.stamfordadvocate.com]
Amtrak looks to honor Pullman Porters
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www.pressconnects.com]
CSX rail deal stalled by 'no-fault' liability impasse
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www.milforddailynews.com]
BNSF to Report First-Quarter Earnings April 23
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www.foxbusiness.com]
Canadian News
Second Amtrak Cascades passenger train added, at least for Olympics
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www.vancouversun.com]
Lack of training blamed for Prince George train fire
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www.cbc.ca]
Commuters want more GO trains
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www.torontosun.com]
Global Railway Revenues Rise 68% in 2008
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www.foxbusiness.com]
International News
A Journey Into the Iraq of Recollection
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www.washingtonpost.com]
Sunday trains will mean a bus ride for the next five years
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www.timesonline.co.uk]
Alstom to buy stake in Russian train maker
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www.forbes.com]
Hitachi reportedly in 'extensive' talks for European train orders
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Mumbai's overcrowded trains kill 17 every day
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www.timesonline.co.uk]
Desperate passengers jump from train
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www.news.com.au]
Dozens feared dead as two trains collide
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www.thisday.co.tz]
Passenger security to be stepped up on commuter trains
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www.hs.fi]
Train driver knocked unconscious
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www.warringtonguardian.co.uk]
Freight Train Nearly Falls Into River
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www.javno.com]
Metro train hit by live power cable near Tynemouth
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www.chroniclelive.co.uk]
KTX passengers rise 47% over a five-year duration
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joongangdaily.joins.com]