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California breaks ground on bullet train as climate solution
2015-01-07 01:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: California broke ground Tuesday on its $68 billion high-speed rail system, promising to combat global warming while whisking travelers between Los Angeles and San Francisco in less than three hours. The bullet train project, the first in the nation to get underway, faces challenges from Republican cost-cutters in Congress and Central Valley farmers suing to keep the rails off their fields. Others doubt the state can deliver the sleek system as designed, and worry it will become an expensive failure....
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Moscow To Build $230B Bullet Train to Beijing
2015-01-06 21:18:04| ENR.com: Headline News
The rail link is part of a dream project to connect China with the United States and Canada.
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Train cars lifted after derailment in Antelope
2015-01-06 16:51:14| Railroads - Topix.net
Union Pacific Railroad workers spent the night Monday and early Tuesday morning clearing a train derailment at the Roseville train yard. A total of four cars jumped the tracks on the Antelope end of the yard, sending three of those cars onto their sides.
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Mexico to relaunch bidding process for $3.75bn high-speed train contract
2015-01-05 01:00:00| Railway Technology
The Mexican Government has decided to relaunch the bidding process for $3.75bn high-speed train contract that was scrapped in November 2014.
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Police: Man was trying to 'beat' train when killed
2015-01-02 23:09:51| Railroads - Topix.net
Police say a man killed in a train accident Thursday was attempting to 'beat' the train when he was struck. Police haven't released the victim's name yet, but CBS19 has confirmed that Corey Walker was struck and killed by an oncoming northbound Union Pacific train just after 4 a.m. Thursday, near the intersection of North Front and West Bryant Street in Troup.
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