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Chicago Metra PTC to cost $100 million
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Chicago Metra PTC to cost $100 millionCHICAGO - Metra plans to spend $100 million to install a high-tech system that would keep trains from colliding or prevent a distracted engineer from speeding through a warning signal to slow down or stop, the Tribune reports. Such a safety system would have ove...
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Chlorine shippers question PTC rule
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Chlorine shippers question PTC ruleThe Chlorine Institute (CI) fears that the positive train control (PTC) rule, which the FRA published Jan. 14, "drastically underestimates the rules benefits," and it has asked the FRA to re-issue the rule with a corrected cost-benefit analysis, r...
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Alaska Railroad president leaving post
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Alaska Railroad president leaving postAlaska Railroad President Pat Gamble is leaving this summer to become president of Alaskas state university system, reports the Fairbanks Daily News. Gamble has been president and CEO of Alaska Railroad since 2001, and under his tenure the railroad has exp...
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Commuter trains moving again in San Diego
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Commuter trains moving again in San DiegoCommuter trains are moving again in San Diego after crews repaired track damaged by a freight train derailment, the Associated Press reports. North County Transit District says about a half-dozen empty boxcars derailed at around 10 p.m. Monday and severa...
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MBTA suspends commuter rail service
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MBTA suspends commuter rail serviceNEWTON, Mass State transportation workers yesterday scrambled to empty the swimming pool-sized hole that opened beneath MBTA tracks during the weekend rainstorm and will force thousands of commuters to rely on buses for another week or so, the Boston Globe re...
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Railroad Dog
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Puppy frozen to railroad tracks rescued by railroad inspector January 12, 11:15 PMMobile Animal Welfare and Protection ExaminerSandra Nathan Lois McLean's husband, Gary, an inspector for the CSX Railroad, started his day inspecting the railroad tracks in Bessemer, Alabama on a frigid morning...
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