CP raises track to get around Iowa flooding NEWSWIRE

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Canadian Pacific train tiptoes through floodwaters in Davenport, Iowa. Steve Smedley DAVENPORT, Iowa — Canadian Pacific Railway’s Davenport Subdivision is getting a reprieve from mother nature and flooding along the Mississippi River. Flooded riverfront tracks in Davenport led the railroad to raise dump several dozen car loads of ballast along the flooded track, with tampers […]

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CSX worker killed at yard in Tennessee NEWSWIRE

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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — A veteran CSX Transportation employee was killed Saturday when struck by a locomotive at a Chattanooga-area yard. Allen Lowe, a 24-year CSX employee, was struck and killed about 5 p.m. Friday at Wauhatchie yard. CSX and local law enforcement are investigating, WRCB-TV reports. He was the father of two children. “Safety is […]

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Steam locomotive Skookum is heading south today NEWSWIRE

The unique steam locomotive Skookum is bedded down on a truck Sunday at Tillamook, Ore., for its trip to California. Martin E. Hansen TILLAMOOK, Ore. — The long and successful restoration of Baldwin’s first logging Mallet known as Skookum reached a milestone this morning when a pair of heavy-haul semi-trucks departed the blimp hanger in […]

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