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Man arrested for trying to sell counterweights off rail crossing arms to Detroit scrap yard
DETROIT (AP) — Authorities say they arrested a man for trying to sell counterweights off railroad crossing arms to a Detroit business that deals in scrap metal. Bill Elson, senior vice president of Fritz Enterprises, tells The Detroit News (http://...Tags: The Detroit News
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Leimert Park Village deserves a rail station
Two years ago, every one of the elected officials representing South Los Angeles — members of the City Council, the Legislature and Congress — joined in an unprecedented show of unity to call for the Crenshaw-to-LAX light-rail line to...
Tags: Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Los Angeles International Airport, Transportation, Antonio Villaraigosa, Travel
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Indy rail service to speed freight
Associated PressEconomic development officials hope a new rail service linking Indianapolis to West Coast ports in Canada will save central Indiana businesses time and money by bypassing a bottleneck in Chicago rail yards and help transform the capital into more of a...Tags: Road Transportation, Norfolk Southern Corporation, Business, Elgin, Transportation
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Doran Street crossing upgrade coming
The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority has cobbled together $40 million to build either an underpass or overpass that would improve safety conditions at one of the most dangerous railroad crossings along the Glendale-Los Angeles...
Tags: Google Inc., Transportation, Science and Technology, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Travel
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Charles T. Mahan Jr., railroad historian
Charles T. Mahan Jr., who spent 75 years painstakingly documenting the Maryland & Pennsylvania Railroad — better known as the Ma & Pa — that zig-zagged across Maryland from Baltimore to York, Pa., died Friday of kidney failure at Oak Crest...
Tags: Transportation, Parkville, Baltimore County, Towson, Travel
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California bullet train groundbreaking faces new obstacles
California's bullet train agency is facing a series of new regulatory and political problems that could jeopardize its July construction kickoff, which already has been delayed more than six months. The new challenges are coming from a private...
Tags: Perini Corporation, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation, Mark DeSaulnier, Jeff Denham
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ON THE TRAIL : All aboard the nature train
The first passenger train rides of the season roll Saturday out of the Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum in North Judson. Why not combine it with a hike or bike ride along the nine-mile, paved North Judson Erie Trail, a former railroad bed that runs between...
Tags: Indiana Hoosiers, Connecticut Valley Railroad, Museums, Transportation, Mother's Day
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New cargo service to Indianapolis expected to save businesses money, stir economic development
Associated PressSOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Indiana officials and businesses are hoping a new freight rail service into Indianapolis starting this summer will save businesses time and money. The Indiana Rail Road Co. will partner with Canadian National Railway to...Tags: Business, Transportation, Travel
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Brown wants China aboard California's high-speed rail project
SHANGHAI — Gov. Jerry Brown's trade mission to China this week is intersecting with one of the most controversial issues of his governorship: California's $68-billion bullet train. The governor has staked part of his legacy on the rail network,...Tags: Regional Authority, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Amtrak, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Executive Branch
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California, China and railroads -- history pulls a switcheroo
A century and some change ago, more than a quarter of a million Chinese lived in California, most of them men and many of them veterans of the Gold Rush, and of the mining and railroad boom that followed. They were barred from owning property and from...
Tags: Beijing (China), Immigration, Jerry Brown, Transportation, Employees
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Our View: Salute for week of April 15
Here is our weekly salute to the people, places and organizations that make Northern Michigan a special place to live. Fruit recycling Petoskey High School students have come up with some impressive programs in preparation for their participation in this...Tags: Medical Specialization, Teaching and Learning, Abusive Behavior, Nursing, Hospitals and Clinics
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William H. Hubbard: How to transform LVIA into a regional transportation hub
Paul Carpenter's column, "It's high-speed rail vs. highway and airport hell," got my attention because we both witnessed the final decline and fall of passenger rail service. Back in September 1977, 13 citizens gathered in the Hotel Bethlehem to form the...Tags: Bethlehem Steel Corp., Amtrak, Northampton (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Allentown, Transportation
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