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...Amtrak, the national passenger rail service, cancelled all its long-distance trips starting on Thursday because it operates on tracks owned by freight railroads outside the north-east....
...But after Pullman porters formed the first labour union for African Americans in 1925, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters fought for better pay and the abolition of segregation across the south....
...(FT) A train to Yucatán A 1,460km, $7.9bn railroad through the heart of Mayan territory could carry more than 8,000 passengers a day to some of Mexico’s most popular tourist destinations....
...Three Chinese nationals working for the China Road and Bridge Corporation were last month charged in Kenya with attempting to bribe local officials investigating an alleged ticketing scam that was said to...
...When China signed up to build Venezuela’s Tinaco-Anaco Railway in 2009, the scheme was hailed as proof of the effectiveness of socialist brotherhood....
...Philippine National Railways....
...Stiles’s superbly written book argues that the main legacy of the “robber baron” and “railroad king” was the giant but invisible corporation, so big that it was able to crush its competitors....
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