Trainnews - volume 2 - issue 202 - 08/18/09

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TODAY'S PHOTOS


An east bound container Train, photo taken on 1/14/06 in Needles.

Lee Cooper Photo

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Request - Please send more photos to trainnews@att.net, we are running low

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Domestic News

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After Fatal Crash, Metro Still Wary Of Letting Computers Control Trains
[www.washingtonpost.com]
and
Metro Ridership Declines After Deadly Crash
[www.wjla.com]

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Amtrak train towed to NY station after breakdown
[www.newsday.com]
and
Passengers Suffer Through A Hot Night In Broken Down Amtrak Train
[www.jaunted.com]

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Iowa deputy rescues couple before train hits car
[www.chicagotribune.com]

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Ticket deal offered for Indiana State Fair train
[www.chicagotribune.com]

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Train operators to vote Aug. 25 on BART pact
[www.sfgate.com]

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CTA Rolling Out A Live Jazz Train
[www.huffingtonpost.com]

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1 Train Problems Persist After 181st Station Ceiling Collapse
[gothamist.com]

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Operation CARE Targets Train Crossings 8/18/09
[www.cbs7kosa.com]

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DART trains speeded up through downtown
[transportationblog.dallasnews.com]

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New Report finds not fault in Elm Grove Memorial Day train accident
[www.fox6now.com]

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Derailed Train Cars Hauled Away
[www.wcsh6.com]

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Train service from Manhattan experiencing delays
[www.lohud.com]

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Disney’s A Christmas Carol Train Tour
[www.ketv.com]

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Bullet Train Backers Rally in Lakeland
[www.theledger.com]

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Debris removed before train arrives
[www.fergusfallsjournal.com]

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UP celebrates silver anniversary of first PRB coal train
[www.progressiverailroading.com]

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Railroad track set to reopen after coal-train derailment
[www.columbusdispatch.com]

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Train cars carrying coal derail near Navarro Street overpass
[www.victoriaadvocate.com]

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Get a rare peek inside Sparks' train car
[www.rgj.com]

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Company agrees to fix railroad crossings
[www.heraldnews.com]

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Railroad Days run gets step up in importance
[snovalleystar.com]

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2nd Annual Topeka Railroad Festival
[www.examiner.com]

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Wabtec gets $44 million order from Virginia Railway Express
[www.bizjournals.com]

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Owner files application to ‘abandon’ Knox and Kane RR
[www2.theclarionnews.com]

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Rail report pleases locals
[www.thedemocrat.com]

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Owners of Only Railroad in Northern Maine Move to Abandon Tracks
[www.mpbn.net]

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Canadian News

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SORRY NO CANADIAN NEWS FOUND BY SEARCH TONIGHT

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International News

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South African Metrorail Strike Enters Second Day, Halts Trains
[www.bloomberg.com]

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Train fares set to fall in 2010
[news.bbc.co.uk]

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'Clean train station scheme' soon
[timesofindia.indiatimes.com]

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Students burn train in Bihar
[www.tribuneindia.com]

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The Blight express: High-speed train that is set to bring home sales in Buckinghamshire to a grinding halt
[www.dailymail.co.uk]

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Taking train to Tibet popular among tourists
[chinatibet.people.com.cn]

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Passenger numbers on city trams rise by 12.5 per cent
[www.news.com.au]

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Connext left trains out of the Loop
[www.news.com.au]

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Scare On the Heredia Train
[insidecostarica.com]

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Olympic bullet train arrives with a bang
[www.dailyecho.co.uk]

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Fuel leak brings train misery
[www.thisissouthwales.co.uk]

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Thameslink route train refresh resumes
[www.transportxtra.com]

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Train delays caused by man on tracks
[www.eveningstar.co.uk]

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National Express East Anglia puts on extra trains for this weekend's V Festival 2009
[www.harlowherald.co.uk]

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Indian consortium Ricon expects to finish Sena railroad in September
[www.macauhub.com.mo]

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