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Visiting Washington State by Train
Washington State is located on the Pacific north coast of the United State; it's bordered by British Columbia (Canada) in the North, by Idaho State on the East side, and by Oregon State in the South.
The state can be divided into 6 geographic land a [...] (Read Article)
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May 25 2012 - Summer GO trains returning soon
Weekend GO Train service is set to return to Niagara. Service from Toronto to Niagara will begin the Victoria Day weekend with stops in St. Catharines and Niagara Falls. Additional stops will be made en route in Port Credit (Mississauga), Oakville and Burlington. |
May 24 2012 - R. Paul Goodman
Due to a sudden illness, Paul was called home to be with his Lord and Savior in the early morning of May 3, 2012. Paul was born on February 15, 1951. He was raised in the Wenatchee Valley with his family. Following high school, he married Joann Sprietsma in 1970, where they were blessed with three daughters, while working for Burlington Northern Railroad, until he retired in 1991. |
May 24 2012 - Vt. gov says train service to Montreal expected to resume
Gov. Peter Shumlin told business leaders in South Burlington Thursday he expects long-stalled passenger train service from Vermont to Montreal to resume soon, crediting sudden progress between Quebec and Washington over border security issues. Later in the day, a joint statement issued by Vermont and New York's congressional delegations largely echoed the governor's assessment. Shumlin was ... |
May 23 2012 - Quiet zone issue put to sleep
Bombarded with statistics concerning city liability and rising accident rates, Macomb aldermen decided this week to no longer pursue the issue of establishing railroad quiet zones in the city. City Administrator Dean Torreson said safety measures such as median lane separations and quad-angle crossing gates could cost the city at least $250,000 per crossing. Residents living near the Burlington ... |
May 23 2012 - Researchers map damaged connections in brain
LOS ANGELES — Poor Phineas Gage. In 1848, the supervisor for the Rutland and Burlington Railroad in Vermont was using a 13-pound, 3-foot-7-inch rod to pack blasting powder into a rock when he triggered an explosion that drove the rod through his left cheek and out of the top of his head. |
May 12 2012 - Easing of Positive Train Control Requirement Endangers Railroad Workers
Years of effort to take much of the value out of a federal regulation requiring U.S. railroads to install life-saving technology on trains and along tracks paid off for the Association of American Railroads on May 10, 2012. The AAR represent large freight and passenger rail corporations, including Amtrak, Burlington Northern Santa Fe, CSX and Norfolk Southern. The group's victory -- which is ... |
May 12 2012 - Driver fatigue caused fatal freight rail crash
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Federal investigators determined that both operators of a coal train that struck the back of another Burlington Northern train that was stopped near Red Oak, Iowa, last April, fell asleep and missed signals to slow and stop, reported Bloomberg News . The tracks didn’t have crash- avoidance technology that U.S. railroads must install by 2015 under a U.S. rule, according to ... |
May 07 2012 - Buffett Says Berkshire Will Top Railroad Purchase
May 7 (Bloomberg) -- Warren Buffett, who built Berkshire Hathaway Inc. into a $200 billion company through stock picks and acquisitions, said his firm may top its largest deal, the 2010 purchase of railroad Burlington Northern Santa Fe. Buffett also discusses his health and President Barack Obama. |
May 06 2012 - Railroad Days pulls into Fullerton Station
Trains of all sizes, from tiny Z-scale model trains to a full size Burlington Northern Santa Fe diesel electric engine, attracted visitors of all sizes to the Fullerton Train Station for Railroad Days 2012. This marked the return of this railroad fan event to the city after four years, caused by... |
May 05 2012 - Livingston's battle
Trial examines fault in pollution by George Ochenski In 1989, newly elected Montana Gov. Stan Stephens was in Livingston to tour Burlington Northern's rail yard and locomotive shop before meeting with members of the public and the town council. The issue?… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ] |
May 04 2012 - Train derails near Kewanee
High winds were reported as the cause of a train derailment just west of Kewanee early Friday morning. At least 13 cars of a westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe train derailed about a mile west of Kewanee. The coal cars were empty. A contractor called in by the railroad brought cranes and other equipment, and dozens of flatbed trucks, to the derailment scene to clear the tracks and clean up ... |
May 04 2012 - Marked Tree finalizes contract to build rail spur
NEW DETAILS: Marked Tree city council and Jonesboro based Baughn Construction have finalized a contract to build a railway spur from the Burlington Northern Santé Fe line to into the Awesome Products plant. |
May 04 2012 - High winds suspected as cause of derailment
At least 13 cars of an empty Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal train derailed Thursday night, just before midnight, snarling Amtrak traffic as well as freight service. BNSF spokeswoman Amy McBeth said there were no injuries involved in the westbound freight derailment just west of the Page Street crossing in Kewanee. “Both tracks are affected,” she said. McBeth said crews were on the scene ... |
May 02 2012 - Long legal battle over fatal BNSF crash ends
MINNEAPOLIS - The families for four young people killed in a 2003 car-train crash in Anoka say they've settled their case against Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad for $29 million. The settlement is one of Minnesota's largest wrongful death awards. |
April 30 2012 - Photos Show Fatal Crane Collapse Rescue Effort At 7 Extension Site
The worker killed in last night's massive crane collapse at the 7 train extension site has been identified. After making sure his family was notified, the NYPD identified the worker as Michael Simmermeyer, 30, from Burlington, New Jersey. He was pronounced DOA at Bellevue Hospital. Another worker whose leg was injured was also taken to Bellevue—he's listed in stable condition ... |
April 28 2012 - Crew fatigue likely caused train crash near Red Oak, authorities say
The National Transportation Safety Board says crew fatigue is the probable cause of a deadly train collision in southwest Iowa in April 2011. A Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal train slammed into a standing BNSF train. The engineer and conductor on the coal train died. |
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