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Kansas City Star
Proposed rail safety provision faces industry roadblock
Kansas City Star
Critics say it's too costly and should be delayed or scaled back. By JUSTINE SHARROCK, LAURIE UDESKY and STUART SILVERSTEIN The Associated Press Rescuers worked over a rail car after a MetroLink commuter train collided with a freight train in the ...

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Popular Mechanics
Coming Soon to NYC: Futuristic Trash Tubes?
Popular Mechanics
The city installed the Roosevelt Island system back in 1975. It works like this: Residents throw garbage down a chute. When the valve at the bottom of the chute is closed, trash can accumulate there. When it's opened, the trash empties into a ...


 
The West Australian
Perfect trains of thought
The West Australian
An Art Deco icon, the train itself is a work of art and a window back to the elegant age of travel. South East Asia in luxury (just think, getting away from all that traffic). The Eastern and Oriental Express luxury train runs between Singapore, ...


 
Train pain on Calder could improve soon
Beaumont Enterprise
Tammy McKinley/The Enterprise Photo: TAMMY MCKINLEY / Beaumont Downtown drivers can look forward in the next few months to a sight not seen in ages - trains that don't go back and forth while blocking traffic. Perhaps that scenario is a little too ...

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Train Versus Car Victim Talks to News 3
KBTX
She says she was in line, to turn right onto Wellborn Road when she saw the train coming, but she couldn't move. She was sandwiched between cars and a railroad crossing arm, unable to move forward or backward. "It had died on me and I tried starting it ...

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Recommended: Railroad companies fight safety rules, with help from GOP and Obama
msnbc.com
Serious train crashes, he said, “are very rare events, but they still occur.” PTC supporters such as Paul Hedlund, a lawyer for many families of Chatsworth victims, say they are appalled by efforts to relax the mandate. It's a “scary step backwards,” ...
As Rail Tragedies Fade From Memory, Resistance to Safety Rule Gains SteamFairWarning (blog)

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Cylinder buried in Bisbee reveals newspaper from 1932
The Republic
More locally, a Nogales, Sonora, Mexico police officer was arrested for helping Chinese illegal immigrants enter the United States, with another article noting 158 Chinese apprehended in Arizona were being taken to San Francisco to be deported back to ...

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