News Archive (January 1 through January 7)

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• CN employees survive 60-metre plunge into canyon valley (CanWest)
  Canadian National locomotives strike landslide in Fraser Canyon, British Columbia.
• 'My heart was racing,' engineer says of derailment (CBC)
  Canadian National train crew survives canyon slide, waits seven hours to be rescued.
• Napoli: DM&E needs support (Rapid City Journal)
  Senator says railroad expansion would create 5000 construction, 1200 permanent jobs.
• US Court upholds DM&E Powder River project approval (Reuters)
  Appeals court denies challenge by Rochester MN and others opposing STB approval.
• U.S. Freight Railroads Complete Another Record-Breaking Year (AAR)
  Full-year 2006 U.S. carloads totaled 17,380,102, up 1.2 percent over 2005.
• Train fans go loco for vintage car transfers (Tri-Valley Herald)
  Closed Golden Gate Railroad Museum sends its equipment to the Niles Canyon Railway.
• CN and CP suffer stormy weather trials but volumes look to pick up (CBC)
  Canadian National and Canadian Pacific impacted by recent snows and mudslides.
• Rail Room - Port's shopping list: Land  (The Columbian)
  Port of Vancouver purchases land to construct new rail gateway.
• Last whistle stop costs 18 rail jobs (London Free Press)
  Norfolk Southern discontinues service on 109-year-old Wabash run to St. Thomas.
• Railroad may weigh expansion (Poughkeepsie Journal)
  Metro-North to explore interest in NYC commuter service north of Poughkeepsie.
• Memories still burn decades after wreck (Baltimore Sun)
  1987 Amtrak crash in Baltimore County that killed 16 led to sweeping safety changes.
• FreightCar America Announces Appointment of New CEO (RAIL)
  Christian Ragot will join railcar manufacturer as COO, become CEO on April 30, 2007.
• Sounder, Amtrak Trains Running Again (KIRO)
  Amtrak and commuter rail service resume north of Seattle following mudslides.
• BNSF Logistics Expands With Acquisition of Pro-Am Transportation (BNSF)
  BNSF purchases third-party logistics company with $25 million revenue in 2006.
• Engineers' job shuffle stalls GO Transit crews (Globe and Mail)
  Crew reductions delay Toronto commuter rail trains.
• Investigation into Selkirk train chemical fire (FOX23)
  CSX tankcar with methanol catches fire at yard near Albany, New York.
• 32 cars derail near Hanover (Washington County News)
  Union Pacific derails 32 coal cars on busy Powder River Basin line, forcing reroutes.
• Landslide, Derailment Near Schuylkill Expressway (6ABC)
  Norfolk Southern derails locomotives and boxcars in Philadelphia due to landslide.
• Federal Railroad Administration to look at safety of overpasses (AP)
  FRA to examine railroad overpasses in Western New York after December derailments.