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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....
...At nearly 400ft, the new SpaceX rocket will eventually be taller than the Saturn V that carried Nasa’s Apollo missions to the moon, and its 33 engines will deliver twice the thrust....
...Vladimir Putin said he would be vaccinated with the Sputnik V jab on Tuesday....
...Amtrak, the national passenger rail service, now provides around 32m passenger trips per year across 21,400 miles of routes, and is impressively semi-functional for a system whose notional funding...
...Amtrak, the national passenger rail company, operates the trains under contract to the states of Washington and Oregon, which own the Amtrak Cascades service....
...Amtrak – formally the National Passenger Railroad Corp – is a government-controlled company, relying partly on funding from Washington....
...Out of sight of the disgruntled passengers, however, Amtrak’s engineers are being supported by some of the world’s most advanced technologies to prevent those delays....
...In May 2015 eight died when a train operated by Amtrak, the national passenger railroad, crashed outside Philadelphia. Both were a result of trains taking bends at excessive speeds....
...Gleaming new Chinese trains were envisaged, whisking passengers and cargo along at 137mph on about 300 miles of track....
...That is strongly contested by Republicans who want to cut the role of the state as they sabre-rattle over public waste and a national debt of $19tn....
...Mr Nutter said the National Transportation Safety Board, which investigates serious transport incidents, was on its way to the scene....
...Eight passengers were killed and hundreds injured on Tuesday evening when a passenger train travelling from Washington to New York derailed at the Frankford Junction curve in northern Philadelphia....
...In December 2013, a train operated by Metro-North, a busy commuter railroad, derailed at 82mph on a bend with a 30mph speed limit at Spuyten Duyvil in New York City, killing four passengers....
...Freight and passenger railroads have had to grapple with issues ranging from equipment incompatibility to sensitive negotiations with Native American groups over lineside antennae....
...In December 2013, a driver suffering from sleep apnoea rounded a 30mph curve at Spuyten Duyvil, in New York City, at 82mph, derailing the train and killing four passengers....
...Airlines encouraged passengers to reconfirm their bookings....
...Amtrak, the US’s main long-distance rail passenger operator, faces a legal battle over the meaning of the word “flood” that could decide the fate of $379m of its claims for damage from 2012’s devastating...
...The chief executive of Amtrak, the US passenger train operator, has criticised top politicians’ “insufficiency of leadership” as the company faces having to slash services to the northeast of New York City...
...Canadian National, Canada’s biggest railroad, has imposed restrictions on handling some traffic bound for the US because of the volume of cargo being diverted northwards ahead of the strike....
...Amtrak, the long-distance passenger rail service, cancelled many of its services in the northeast – the area where it carries most passengers....
...But it went on: “Implementing PTC by the 2015 deadline will be very difficult for the MTA as well as for other commuter railroads, as the Federal Railroad Administration and the Government Accountability...
...The nine-passenger, 275-knot BA609, has, however, been mired in squabbles between the two companies, and the projected certification date has moved steadily backwards....
...If CSR Corp, the Chinese company that built the train, has its way, the US will get a taste of the technology in the next decade....
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