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Division of Labour (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
The Oct. 9, 1908 NYT reports on the prices from the Philadelphia Stock Exchange: A sampling of firms, volume, and closing prices (with prices in 2007 dollars in brackets). Union Pacific: 20 shares, $161.25 [$3,748.19] Bell Telephone: 2 shares, $98.50 [$2289.14] Lehigh Navigation: 30 shares, $90.5 [$2103.22] Reading (Railroad): 10,490 shares, $64.56 [$1500.37] U.S. Steel: 8,765 shares, $46 [$1069.04]...
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Daily News (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
In the wake of last month's fatal Metrolink collision, the region's two freight train companies announced Wednesday that they will put automated systems in the Los Angeles area to stop trains before they crash by 2012.
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The Dallas Business Journal (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. and two other major railroad companies have inked an agreement that’s expected to create compatible interoperability standards for the railways’ Positive Train Control technology. (UNP) (NSC)
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
OMAHA, Neb.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Union Pacific Corporation (NYSE: UNP) announced today that it has developed an implementation plan that should deliver Positive Train Control (PTC) technology
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Eddie's Rail Fan Page (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
I took this photo after work one evening, in November of 2006. We are looking north from West Kinzie Street at the Union Pacific Railroads M-19A Diesel Shop. This view showcases the reflective industry standard markings used today for safety reasons.
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Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
For quite a while now, Canadians have had an option their neighbors to the south have not had when buying compact cars — an Acura version of the dutiful Honda Civic. That option continues on with the power-plenum enhanced 2009 Acura CSX Type-S, here spotted fresh off the truck, still wearing transit booties. The $34,000C Type-S gets an impressive list of standard features and a rather sporty set of...
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Eddie's Rail Fan Page (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
I took this photograph looking north on South kostner Avenue, in south suburban Alsip Illinois. A northbound CSX train is seen passing through the village of Alsip Illinois over the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad. The train is seen passing the railroad crossing on South Kostner Avenue near 119th Street.
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Toxic contamination under the old Curtis Park railyard has proved so widespread and expensive to dig up that developer Paul Petrovich now proposes to bury much of it on site rather than ship it away. A light-rail train departs Sacramento City College, at the western border of the Union Pacific railyard in Curtis Park on Monday. Developer Paul Petrovich plans to turn the railyard into a residential...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
KANSAS CITY, Mo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kansas City Southern (KCS) (NYSE:KSU) announced today that its stockholders, on an affirmative vote of over 90% of the shares voted at today's special
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TortsProf Blog (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
The LA Times reports that plaintiffs' lawyers have aggressively pursued victims of the Metrolink crash: In the weeks since Metrolink Train 111 crashed head-on with a Union Pacific freight train in Chatsworth, killing 25 and injuring at least 130 others,...
