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Fatal Train Collision to Go to Texas Grand Jury
a flatbed truck they were riding on was struck by a Union Pacific train traveling 62 mph. The truck was the second float Transportation Safety Board is investigating the crash. Union Pacific said last month it was adjusting the timing of the crossing
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Homeless Nephew of Millionare Heiress Died Standing to Inherit $19 Milliondescendants in New York courts. The body of Timothy Henry Gray, 60, was found Dec. 27 underneath the overpass of Union Pacific Railroad in Evanston, Wyo., a small mining town in the southwest corner of the state, by children who were sledding
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Train Hits Truck Carrying Wounded Veterans at Parade Killing at Least 4Support's Hunt for Heroes parade Thursday afternoon when a Union Pacific train approached after 4:30 p.m. local time just blood all over," said eyewitness Eservando Wisler. A Union Pacific spokesman Tom Lange said it appeared safety devices
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4 Dead as Train Hits Trailer Carrying Veterans at Parade
Avenue around 4:35 p.m. local time, when a train began to approach, police told KMID. One float got across the Union Pacific tracks safely, but the second was hit by the train. Two people were killed instantly and two more died at Midland
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Amtrak's Coast Starlight sells the joys of slow travel
performance record has improved substantially in recent years thanks to equipment upgrades and better coordination with Union Pacific , the freight company that owns the tracks. Over the past 12 months, Amtrak reports, trains arrived on schedule about
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'Nightline' Daily Line, July 5: ABC News Correspondent Caught in Taliban FirefightLong Island, N.Y . Credit: ABC News And a f reight train has derailed and a bridge over a stretch of road has collapsed in the northern Chicago suburbs. But according to Union Pacific spokesman Mark Davis, no injuries were reported.
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Safety board: Ban cellphone use by truckers
boat. •In September 2008, a Southern California Regional Rail Authority passenger train collided head-on with a Union Pacific Railroad freight train near Chatsworth, Calif., killing 25 people. The board blamed the crash on the distraction
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Heat Wave Causes Exploding Sidewalks and a Blood-Red Reservoir in Texasrails there expand and buckle and railroad trains slow by 20 miles per hour. Because of the heat, Mark Davis of the Union Pacific Railroad said, the metal rails expand and could buckle out of alignment, causing a derailment. To ensure that trains
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Truck Hits Amtrak Train, Causing Fiery Deathshut down a section of U.S. 95 between Interstate 80 and Fallon, Nev. "Amtrak managers and representatives of Union Pacific , the track owner, are enroute to the scene, along with emergency responders," Amtrak said in a written statement
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FBI Investigates Train Carrying Flammable Ethanol -- Rules Out Terrorism130-car trains that were running the track last Sunday. The railroad's chief operating officer, Mick Burkart, said a Union Pacific train did successfully cross the track at the damaged switch Sunday night, but the crew noticed that something was
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America's Most Affordable Citiesresult is a list of the top 15 urban affordability hot spots. Omaha Stakes As the home of major corporations like Union Pacific , ConAgra Foods and Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, Omaha boasts inexpensive real estate, a low cost of living
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Jobs to pick up in 2011, analysts predict
Union Pacific , the nation's largest freight railroad business groups are seeing a pickup," Union Pacific CEO Jim Young says. "To me that says little choice but to ramp up hiring. Union Pacific is spending a record $3.2 billion
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Smokers Need Not Apply: Is Hiring Ban Trend of the Future?several others elsewhere -- such as the Cleveland Clinic, a medical center based in Ohio; Alaska Airlines; and Union Pacific Railroad -- have also stopped hiring smokers. Supporters of the hire-no-smokers policy say it will provide smoke-free
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Train Hits Parade Float Full of Wounded Veterans in Texasyou can. Reporter: The impact was deafening, as the union pacific train plowed into the parade float, carrying two dozen should have had to go through again. Reporter: Now, union pacific says the gates and the lights at this crossing were
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Midland, Texas Train Crashlocomotive engines three in the front. To those along the Union Pacific railroad it was awarded through the third went northern Of August considered real. That's relevant is 3 Union Pacific locomotive engines. We were able to download and obtain
locomotive engines three in the front. To those along the Union Pacific railroad it was awarded through the third went -- northern through reports other. The last locomotive engine with the the end. Of August -- considered real. That's relevant is -- 3 Union Pacific locomotive engines. We were able to download and obtain the video as well as the the event recorder. What it's relevant. It's -
Heat Wave Reaches the NortheastIt's it's not just people being knocked out infrastructures taking a beating too. Heat so intense it did it these Union Pacific rail lines as if they were made of rubber crack these building foundations of Tulsa and closed the crown. The statue
infrastructures taking a beating too. Heat so intense it did it these Union Pacific rail lines as if they were made of rubber crack these building foundations of Tulsa and closed the crown. The statue of -
Stocks Looking Up Todayinteresting because. They're there have been some rumors about the demise of the American auto industry but we heard from Union Pacific the real company last week that they're a lot more cars by rail. So does that mean that the car the car picture
about the demise of the American auto industry but we heard from Union Pacific the real company last week that they're -- a lot more cars by rail. So does that mean that the car the -
Train Slices City Bus In Halfin half its fuel line was cut sending diesel into the storm that feeds slope which leads into the Oakland estuary. Union Pacific railroad and AC transit each hired their own environmental cleanup crew to monitor the situation. The fuel tank onboard
storm -- that feeds -- slope which leads into the Oakland estuary. Union Pacific railroad and AC transit each hired their own environmental cleanup crew to monitor the situation. The fuel tank onboard the back after -
Webcast: Dining With Dems, Golfing with the GOPthey put on the same kind of show this summer in West Virginia. Flying in on private corporate jets provided by FedEx Union Pacific and US tobacco. The senators and the lobbyists a July weekend at the five star Greenbrier resort. Louisiana senator
in West Virginia. Flying in on private corporate jets provided by FedEx Union Pacific and US tobacco. The senators and the lobbyists -- a July weekend at the five star Greenbrier resort. Louisiana senator David Vitter -
$25K for Lobster With Dems, $15K for GOP Round of Golfthey put on the same kind of show this summer in West Virginia. Flying in on private corporate jets provided by FedEx Union Pacific and US tobacco. The senators and a lobbyist and a July weekend at the five star Greenbrier resort. Louisiana senator
in West Virginia. Flying in on private corporate jets provided by FedEx Union Pacific and US tobacco. The senators and a lobbyist and a July weekend at the five star Greenbrier resort. Louisiana senator David Vitter
